Word this week that the containershp backlog at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach had reached 75 this week, as vessels wait in the ocean for a berth.

Naturally, this is causing the number of days ships wait to be unloaded to head higher, now over 5 in the monthly average for August, as shown in the graphic below, based on data from Pacific Merchant Shipping Association. In normal times, it's one or two days.

Source: Wall Street Journal

SCDigest would have guesses a longer average wait than that, frankly. Certainly seems some containers taking more than a week to unload.

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