There’s still over $40B in cargo on container ships waiting offshore

photo of a container ship waiting offshore

Anchorages continue to fill with waiting container ships off East and Gulf Coast ports, where vessel queues have now far outgrown those off the West Coast. Along all three coasts combined, the number of waiting container vessels remains exceptionally high.

There were 125 container ships waiting off North American ports on Friday morning, according to an analysis of ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic and queue numbers from Southern California.

That’s down from almost 150 at the beginning of...

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