Ship queue
Above normalSavannah ships awaiting berth
Container ships waiting offshore for a berth to open at Savannah, 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
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- 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
- Savannah
- Unit
- vessels
- Calculation
- Weekly reading
- Last observation
- week of Aug 24, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly
Ships awaiting berth at Savannah is 4 ships as of week of Aug 24, 2026, above its trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships. 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 Savannah rose to 4 this week, up 100% week over week from 2 ships (per MARAD). At 4 ships, the queue is above the trailing-12-month normal of 2 and 20% below the five-year median. The elevated count relative to the trailing-12-month normal places Savannah's friction read at Some pressure.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 4 ships | 2 ships | +100.0% |
| Month over month | 4 ships | 2 ships | +100.0% |
| Year over year | 4 ships | 3 ships | +33.3% |
| vs 5-yr median | 4 ships | 5 ships | -20.0% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Ships awaiting berth at Savannah held at 3 as of the week of Aug 10, near its trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships. The queue eased 40 percent month over month and year over year from 5 ships. Against its 5-year median of 9 ships, the berth queue sits well below the 2021 to 2023 congestion peaks.
About Savannah ships awaiting berth
This page tracks the number of container ships waiting offshore for a berth to open at Savannah. 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.