Savannah 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 Oct 12, 2026 · source last checked Oct 14, 2026 · page revised Oct 15, 2026

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Savannah: 2 ships awaiting berth as of week of Oct 12, 2026, weekly from MARAD and the Marine Exchange (via BTS). The Dwell. https://the-dwell.com/waiting/savannah

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<p style="font-size:11px;color:#6b6b6b;margin:2px 0 0">About this data: MARAD and the Marine Exchange, via BTS Supply Chain and Freight Indicators · Container ships awaiting berth · Queue count, not a dwell time · Savannah · vessels · Weekly reading · through week of Oct 12, 2026</p>

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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 Oct 12, 2026
Update frequency: Weekly

Ships awaiting berth at Savannah is 2 ships as of week of Oct 12, 2026, near 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 held at 2 vessels as of the week of Oct 12, matching its trailing-12-month normal. The queue rose one ship week over week and is up 2 ships year over year.

Period moves and the seasonal vs-N-yr median (a prior-years comparison). The card verdict and the friction board use each series' trailing-12-month median, the friction rule.
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	0 ships	n/a
vs 4-yr median	2 ships	18 ships	-88.6%

Previous weeks

Week of Oct 6, 2026

Ships awaiting berth at Savannah eased to 1 vessel as of the week of Oct 5, down 1 ship month over month. The queue sits below its trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships, well below the dozens of vessels that regularly awaited berths in 2021 to 2023.

Week of Sep 22, 2026

Ships awaiting berth at Savannah is 2 ships as of the week of Sep 21, at its trailing-12-month normal. The queue rose 100% from 1 ship the prior week but has eased 50% month over month and 60% year over year. The reading sits well below the 5-year median of 11 ships, a level seen during the 2021 to 2023 congestion era.

Week of Sep 15, 2026

Ships awaiting berth at Savannah is 1 ship as of the week of Sep 14, below its trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships. The queue shed 1 ship week over week and remains well clear of the 2021 to 2023 peak congestion.

Week of Sep 8, 2026

Ships awaiting berth at Savannah stands at 2 ships as of week of Sep 7, 2026, holding at its trailing-12-month normal. The queue is down 3 ships year over year and remains well below the 2021 to 2023 congestion era, when it ran into the dozens.

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.