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 The number of container ships awaiting berths at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach across the Pacific coastline is growing, now surpassing a hundred to 101.   On the 1,000-mile stretch of North American coastline, 101 container ships are parked or loitering in two of the U.S. gateway waterways waiting for berth, according to the latest data from the Marine Exchange of Southern California. Before the pandemic, ships that normally only took two weeks to travel from Asia to North America are now taking up huge capacity due to congestion delays, with some voyages berthing for more than 45 days. "Zhonggu Shandong" has been waiting for berth for 55 days. 
Although the Port of Los Angeles disclosed that the number of waiting ships had nearly halved within a week, the fact that the congestion has not eased. Last month, U.S. authorities pushed anchorages where ships were waiting to berth off the coast of California, requiring ships to stay 150 miles from the coast. When you can't see a large container fleet, the number of subsequent congested ships continues to increase.
Through the cross-tracking analysis of Clarksons' port congestion data and the Los Angeles port's outbound ship volume data analysis, port congestion has not yet eased. The reduction is due to the adjustment of the anchorage arrangement rules, resulting in some ships not being counted.
The Southern California Shipping Exchange adjusted the anchorage queuing rules on November 15. According to previous rules, ships waiting to enter the port can stay at anchorages within 20 nautical miles of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. In the past six months, port congestion has increased and the waiting area has become overcrowded. For safety and air pollution reasons, the new regulations stipulate that, except in special circumstances, waiting ships can only be berthed 150 miles southwest of California and 50 miles away from California and Mexico. Waiting in the sea, only ships that can enter the port within 72 hours of notification from the port are allowed to slowly approach the port anchorage and wait for the nearest berth. As a result, the distance between cargo ships has increased, and the speed of goods entering the port has also been lengthened, which has further aggravated the situation of port congestion.
The latest figures from the Marine Exchange of Southern California show that 101 container ships are currently stranded, with 30 at anchor in Southern California waters and 71 slow sailing or drifting outside designated safety and air quality areas .
"Can you imagine the risk of 101 container ships all congregating within 40 miles of waters near Los Angeles during tonight's storm?" Now, the ships have spread 1,000 miles, many in relatively calm waters south of the coast of Mexico. ” the exchange posted on Facebook on the 13th.
As of the evening of the 13th, authorities had actually cleared all boats anchored in Los Angeles and Long Beach for the coming major storm.
In the latest video of his popular YouTube series "What's Happening to Shipping," Sal Mercogliano, an associate professor at Campbell University in North Carolina, points out the extremely long wait times for ships on the trans-Pacific trade route. The video pointed out that the "Navios Amarillo" waiting in the waters of Baja, Mexico, and the "Maersk Esmeraldas" waiting in the waters of Xiamen are the most typical cases.
The 4250TEU "Navios Amarillo" left the port of Busan, South Korea on November 17, and is currently anchored in Mexican waters. It is scheduled to dock in Los Angeles on January 2 for a period of 46 days.
 The 13,000 TEU "Maersk Esmeraldas", which had docked at Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Yantian and Xiamen ports at the end of November, left Xiamen port two days ago (actually it left the port on December 1) and is still moored off the coast of China. The not-so-distant waters, scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on Jan. 11, require a month-long layover, indicating the scale of congestion on the trans-Pacific route.  
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced on the 13th that the planned "container overstay fee" charged to shipping companies will be postponed for another week, which is the fifth delay. The fine was first proposed in October but has so far not been implemented.
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