# Long Beach BNSF Nine-Plus-Day Rail Units Nearly Triple to 2,988 _Nov 3, 2026_ > Long Beach BNSF nine-plus-day rail units jumped 183% week-over-week to 2,988. Total nine-plus-day units at Long Beach hit 4,431, up 82.4%. LA/LB friction holds at some pressure. Truck PTI is running below its trailing-12-month normal. _Numbers as of Nov 3, 2026 pull._ Long Beach outbound rail is building again. Total nine-plus-day rail units at Long Beach reached **4,431** this week, up 82.4% week over week from 2,429, per Port of Long Beach data. BNSF nine-plus-day units drove most of that move, rising 183.0% week over week from 1,056 to **2,988**. [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/2026-11-03/waiting/all-us.png) - **Long Beach total outbound rail** reached 22,515, up 40.2% week over week from 16,062, per Port of Long Beach. BNSF climbed to 18,508 (up 49.3% from 12,393) and Union Pacific reached 4,007 (up 9.2% from 3,669). - **LA/LB import-friction read: some pressure.** Ships awaiting berth: 1, near the trailing-12-month normal of 1, per MARAD and the Marine Exchange. The elevated read reflects loaded import volumes running above their trailing-12-month normal. - **LA/LB truck planning-time index (BTS):** 2.34, below the trailing-12-month normal of 4.02. Drayage windows around the terminals are running lighter than recent norms. - **Savannah:** 3 ships awaiting berth, near the trailing-12-month normal of 2, per MARAD and the Marine Exchange. Import-friction read: flowing. - **NY/NJ:** Truck PTI (BTS) 2.37, below the trailing-12-month normal of 3.82. Import-friction read: flowing. No public ship-queue series is maintained for this complex. LA/LB loaded imports for the latest available month: 1,055,086 TEU, above the trailing-12-month normal of 848,128 TEU, per port authority data. The Port of Los Angeles reported September 2026 as its busiest month in 118 years, with 1,042,652 total TEUs handled, per its Oct 9 release. The Northwest Seaport Alliance reported September 2026 total container volume at Seattle-Tacoma of 265,692 TEUs, down 8.1% year over year and full imports down 4.4% year over year, per its Oct 19 release. *Monthly TEU figures and the truck PTI are the latest available and reflect the reporting month, not the current week.* --- Canonical URL: https://the-dwell.com/issues/2026-11-03