Ships Drop Anchor Waiting for US Port Strike to End

More than three dozen container ships have anchored outside some of the biggest ports on the Gulf and East coasts, a bottleneck that’s only going to grow as a US dockworker strike intensifies and threatens to disrupt supply chains in Europe and Asia.

Vessel queues longer than a few ships are rare for the country’s eastern and southern maritime gateways, but they’ve amassed at roughly 12 a day since early Tuesday, when some 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walked off the job.