![]() So, what we’re doing now is advancing expansion plans we had targeted to happen over the next five years. “We’re seeing volume this year we didn’t expect to see until 2025. ![]() We’re probably going to add 600,000-700,000 TEUs in one year, which is incredible. If we annualized that, we’d be running at a pace of over 6 million TEUs. “If you look at our volume last week, it was yet another throughput record for us. We’ve been up double digits for months now,” he said. “Our March to date is up 32.5% year-over-year. Meanwhile, the import boom continues apace. “We’ve made a tremendous amount of progress, which has opened things up and allowed us to work vessels and turn them around more quickly.” The number of containers in the facility is already back down to 64,000. “Essentially what we’ve done is reduce the queue by more than one vessel per day,” he said. Lynch pointed out that the number of ships at anchor has been reduced by 36% in the past six days. Ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd said in a market update last week that there was “ongoing heavy congestion at all terminals in Vancouver and Prince Rupert … with vessels being held off berth for days.”īecause weather played such a big role in Savannah’s congestion, it has been able to bounce back quickly. are flowing heavily through Canada as well. Anchorages of Oakland, California, March 10 (Map: MarineTraffic)Įven further to the north, MarineTraffic data showed 11 ships at anchor off Vancouver in British Columbia. Up the coast of California, ship-positioning data from MarineTraffic showed 13 ships at anchor off Oakland as of Wednesday. Anchorages of Los Angeles/Long Beach, March 10 (Map: MarineTraffic) The CMA Marco Polo - with a capacity of 16,022 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) - has been stuck at anchor the longest, since Feb. As of Wednesday, there were 31 at anchor. The number of container ships in San Pedro Bay has averaged around 30 since the start of the year and level remains stubbornly high. In an interview with American Shipper on Wednesday, Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) Executive Director Griff Lynch explained why the situation off Savannah is not the same as the one off the West Coast - and why his traffic jam is already easing. ![]() The common denominator is a massive surge in U.S. But that’s not the whole story: Anchorages are bloated with box ships elsewhere along the West Coast, in Oakland and British Columbia, and on the East Coast off Savannah, Georgia. The spotlight has focused on the armada of container ships stuck in California’s San Pedro Bay, awaiting berths in Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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