Ship queue
Near 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 Jul 6, 2026 · page updated Jul 10, 2026
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Ships awaiting berth at LA/Long Beach is 2 ships as of week of Jul 6, 2026, near 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.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 2 ships | 1 ship | +100.0% |
| Month over month | 2 ships | 1 ship | +100.0% |
| Year over year | 2 ships | 2 ships | 0.0% |
| vs 4-yr median | 2 ships | 2 ships | +33.3% |
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.
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