The shipping container backlogs at East Cost ports are now bigger than those on the West Coast
Story Date: 4/8/2022

 

Source: Abby Wallace, BUSINESS INSIDER, 4/7/22


More containers are waiting to unload outside ports on the US East Coast than on the West Coast, according to vessel tracking website, MarineTraffic. More than 600,000 containers stacked on ships and waiting for capacity to unload were bound for the US as of Wednesday, MarineTraffic said in a tweet. Of those, 186,000 were waiting off the West Coast, while 273,000 were waiting off the US East Coast.

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