{"id":1653,"date":"2021-09-27T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2021\/09\/27\/anchorages-full\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:52:02","slug":"anchorages-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/anchorages-full\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchorages full"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 25 September, the Marine Exchange of Southern California (MESC) reported 157 vessels at the San Pedro Bay ports for the 24 September. Despite anchorages being full, the number of ships at anchor or in drift areas is set to rise, said the organisation. Both ports recently announced new measures to speed up cargo throughput as congestion builds.<\/a><\/p>\n

MESC said: \u201cOver the next 3 days, 27 vessels of all types are scheduled to go to anchor or a drift area and 24 are scheduled to shift from anchor or drift area to a berth, so the trend of vessels at anchor or in drift areas should be up.  Of the 27, 19 are container ships and only 12 container ships are scheduled to shift from anchor or drift area to a berth, so the trend of container ships at anchor or in drift areas should also be up.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, MESC said vessel traffic is under control: \u201cThere have been no issues with vessels at anchor or drift areas.  All are working in a fantastic fashion with the LA\/LB vessel traffic service, who monitors and works with each vessel to ensure they comply with “standards of care” including remaining 2 miles apart and from shallow water, out of the shipping lanes, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n

MESC said there were a record 157 vessels of all types in port Los Angeles and Long Beach, three more than 23 September and two more than the previous record of 155 set on Sunday 19 Sep. The record was helped by eight tankers in drift areas.<\/p>\n

Of the 157 total vessels of all types, 92 are at anchor, 2 more than 23 September, of which 62 are actually anchored plus 30 in drift areas (including 22 container ships and 8 tankers).<\/p>\n

65 vessels of all types are at berths discharging or loading cargo, one more than 23 September.<\/p>\n

Of the 157 total vessels, 95 are container ships, three more than 23 September.<\/p>\n

Of the 95 container ships, 62 are at anchor, one fewer than 23 September, of which 40 are actually anchored, one fewer than 23 September, and 22 are in drift areas.<\/p>\n

33 container ships are at berths discharging and loading containers, four more than 23 September.<\/p>\n

34 total vessels of all types were scheduled to arrive in the 3 days following the 24 September, three fewer than “normal” based on 2018\/9 levels pre-COVID.  Of these 34 total arrivals, 21 are container ships, four more than “normal.”<\/p>\n

Media sources have also recently reported congestion off the coast of New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new record has been set for ships at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, while regular and contingency anchorages are \u201cessentially\u201d full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}