# NY/NJ port congestion The import-friction read at NY/NJ and the live metrics behind it _Data through Jun 1, 2026 · source last checked Sep 1, 2026 · page revised Aug 20, 2026_ > Monthly truck-index reading (no live ship queue for this complex) — last quoted Jun 1, 2026. > Import-friction read for NY/NJ: Flowing. Truck planning-time index 2.37 (below its trailing-12-month normal of 3.95). Loaded imports 388,842 TEU (near its trailing-12-month normal of 372,973 TEU). The read is a rules-based summary of where these metrics sit versus their trailing-12-month normal, not a forecast. Truck planning-time index at NY/NJ stands at 2.37, below its trailing-12-month normal of 3.95. Loaded imports are tracking near their 12-month norm at 388,842 TEU, the latest monthly read from June. ## The numbers | Metric | Latest | Trailing-12-mo normal | Status | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Truck planning-time index | 2.37 | 3.95 | eased | | Loaded imports | 388,842 TEU | 372,973 TEU | near normal | ## About NY/NJ port congestion The Port of New York and New Jersey is the largest container gateway on the US East Coast, the primary entry point for the New York metro region and the wider Northeast. Unlike LA/Long Beach, which sits almost entirely on the transpacific trade, NY/NJ receives a genuinely mixed set of services: all-water Asia strings that run the full ocean route through the Panama Canal, and direct sailings from Europe, so its import mix is not tied to a single ocean's shipping cycle the way a single-lane gateway is. This hub page shows the import-friction read for the complex: a plain, rules-based label built from where its live metrics sit against their own trailing-12-month median. NY/NJ reports two of the three components this site tracks, the truck planning-time index and loaded-import TEU. BTS does not publish a public ship-queue reading for NY/NJ the way it does for LA/Long Beach and Savannah, so the composite here is judged on those two alone. A component reading more than 15% above its trailing-12-month median counts as elevated; zero elevated components reads Flowing, one reads Some pressure, two or more reads Congested. It describes the current numbers, never a forecast. Truck planning-time index is 2.37, below its trailing-12-month normal of 3.95 (the past year has ranged 2.37–4.03). Loaded imports is 388,842 TEU, near its trailing-12-month normal of 372,973 TEU (the past year has ranged 300,819 TEU–425,453 TEU). NY/NJ's import volume follows the same August-through-October peak-season build as the other gateways, driven by the same holiday restocking calendar. Because part of its cargo comes off transatlantic strings rather than the transpacific route, NY/NJ's peak is somewhat less tied to the Lunar New Year factory-shutdown effect that shapes the West Coast pattern; the complex's own seasonal wrinkle is winter Atlantic storm activity, which can slow vessel schedules into the harbor much the way hurricane season does at Savannah, later in the calendar. See the [truck planning-time index](/pti/new-york-new-jersey) and [New York/New Jersey TEU](/teu/new-york-new-jersey) for the live numbers behind this read, and the [methodology page](/methodology) for the exact rule. ## About this data - Source: The Dwell import-friction read, a composite of BTS supply-chain indicators - Series: Import-friction read and the live metrics behind it - Geography: NY/NJ - Unit: PTI - Calculation period: Against a trailing-12-month normal band - Last observation: Jun 1, 2026 - Update frequency: Weekly and monthly components --- Cite: The import-friction read at NY/NJ is Flowing as of Jun 1, 2026 (The Dwell). The Dwell. https://the-dwell.com/port/new-york-new-jersey Canonical URL: https://the-dwell.com/port/new-york-new-jersey