East Coast Container Ship Queue Overshadows West Coast Logjam
- More ships stuck outside East Coast ports, MarineTraffic says
- West Coast’s Los Angeles, Long Beach are traditionally busiest
A container ship docked at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina last year.
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Ocean carriers looking to avoid logjams at the U.S.’s busiest container gateways on the West Coast are now facing even longer queues out east.
As of Wednesday, there were ships with more container capacity stuck outside U.S. East Coast ports than off the busiest sea-cargo gateways in the west, data compiled by maritime-analytics firm MarineTraffic showed.