The queue of container ships waiting to berth at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex grew to a record 60 vessels as the ports remain inundated with import volumes during peak shipping season. RThere were 41 ships at anchor in the San Pedro Bay Sept. 15 while another 19 ships were stationary in the nearby drifting zone, according to cFlow, Platts trade flow software. The vessel queue has swelled well beyond the 40 ships from the last import surge in February as the August-November peak season for restocking ahead of year-end holidays got underway. The average waiting time in anchorage to berth at the Port of Los Angeles was at 8.5 days, while the dwell time for an unloaded container at the terminal was six days on average, the port authority said. Total throughput at the Port […]