# Long Beach Nine-Plus-Day Rail Units More Than Double to 3,450 _Oct 28, 2026_ > Long Beach nine-plus-day rail units more than doubled to 3,450 week over week. The US ship queue rose to 8 ships. LA/Long Beach holds a some-pressure friction read. POLA set an all-time September volume record. _Numbers as of Oct 28, 2026 pull._ Units sitting nine or more days in Long Beach's outbound rail area hit **3,450** this week, more than doubling week over week from 1,664, per Port of Long Beach data. Units newly crossing the nine-day threshold reached **1,909**, up 249.6% from 546 the prior week. The LA/Long Beach import-friction read holds at some pressure. [Chart: Ships awaiting berth, All US container ports (vessels)](https://the-dwell.com/waiting/all-us) ([data](https://the-dwell.com/waiting/all-us.md) — chart image: https://the-dwell.com/charts/issues/ports/2026-10-28/waiting/all-us.png) - **All-US ships awaiting berth:** 8 ships (MARAD and the Marine Exchange), up 60.0% week over week, and 84% below the four-year median. - **East Coast ships at anchor:** 6 ships (MARAD and the Marine Exchange), doubled week over week, 79% below the four-year median. - **LA/Long Beach ships awaiting berth:** 1 ship (Marine Exchange), down 50% week over week and near the trailing-12-month normal of 1 ship. Truck planning-time index: 2.34 (BTS), below the trailing-12-month normal of 4.02. - **Savannah ships awaiting berth:** 3 ships (MARAD), near the trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships and 86% below the four-year median. Import-friction read: flowing. - **LA/Long Beach loaded imports:** 1,055,086 TEU for September 2026, above the trailing-12-month normal of 848,128 TEU. The Port of Los Angeles reported September 2026 at 1,042,652 TEU, an all-time monthly record per POLA's Oct 9, 2026 release. - **NWSA (Seattle/Tacoma):** Per the Northwest Seaport Alliance's Oct 19, 2026 release, September 2026 total volume was 265,692 TEU, down 8.1% year over year. Full imports fell 4.4% year over year. Monthly TEU data lags by several weeks. September figures above are the latest available, not a current-week read. --- Canonical URL: https://the-dwell.com/issues/2026-10-28