Ship queue
Below normalLA/Long Beach ships awaiting berth
Container ships waiting offshore for a berth to open at LA/Long Beach, weekly, from MARAD and the Marine Exchange
Data through week of Aug 24, 2026 · source last checked Sep 1, 2026 · page revised Sep 1, 2026
Cite
- Ships awaiting berth
About this data
- Source
- MARAD and the Marine Exchange, via BTS Supply Chain and Freight Indicators
- Series
- Container ships awaiting berth
- Basis
- Queue count, not a dwell time
- Geography
- LA/Long Beach
- Unit
- vessels
- Calculation
- Weekly reading
- Last observation
- week of Aug 24, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly
Ships awaiting berth at LA/Long Beach is 0 ships as of week of Aug 24, 2026, below its trailing-12-month normal of 1 ship. This is a ship QUEUE, not a dwell time. Well below the 2021 to 2023 congestion era, when the queue ran into the dozens.
Ships awaiting berth at LA/Long Beach fell to 0 this week, down 100% week over week and 100% below the five-year median (per MARAD). The friction read is Flowing, with the truck planning-time index at 2.19 (per BTS), below its trailing-12-month normal of 4.07. The West Coast ships-at-anchor count also cleared to 0 this week.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 0 ships | 1 ship | -100.0% |
| Month over month | 0 ships | 1 ship | -100.0% |
| Year over year | 0 ships | 1 ship | -100.0% |
| vs 5-yr median | 0 ships | 1 ship | -100.0% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Ships awaiting berth at LA/Long Beach stood at zero for the week of Aug 10, below its trailing-12-month normal of 1 ship. The queue cleared year over year, down from 1 ship a year ago.
About LA/Long Beach ships awaiting berth
This page tracks the number of container ships waiting offshore for a berth to open at LA/Long Beach. It is a queue, a count of ships, and it is not a dwell time: a vessel in the queue has not yet reached a berth. The count comes from MARAD and the Marine Exchange and updates weekly, so it is the most current congestion signal on the site. A rising queue is an early warning that boxes will start to sit; an empty queue is shown as zero ships, never as a zero dwell.