Just how many containers of cargo are stuck off California’s coast?

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With 70 or more container ships waiting at anchor or drifting off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, how deep of a hole are the terminals actually in?

To answer that question, American Shipper analyzed data from the Marine Exchange of Southern California on exactly which ships are stuck out there.

On Monday, the 70 container ships waiting offshore had a total capacity of 432,909 twenty-foot equivalent units. To put the enormity of that number in perspective, that is above the inbound...

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