At anchor
Below normalWest Coast ships at anchor
Container ships at anchor off West Coast ports, weekly, from the BTS supply-chain indicators
Data through week of Aug 24, 2026 · source last checked Sep 1, 2026 · page revised Sep 1, 2026
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- Ships at anchor
About this data
- Source
- BTS Supply Chain and Freight Indicators
- Series
- Container ships at anchor off the coast's ports
- Basis
- Coast-wide anchorage count, not a berth queue or a dwell time
- Geography
- West Coast Coast
- Unit
- vessels
- Calculation
- Weekly reading
- Last observation
- week of Aug 24, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly
Container ships at anchor off West Coast ports is 0 ships as of week of Aug 24, 2026, below its trailing-12-month normal of 1 ship. This is a coast-wide anchorage count, ships at anchor off West Coast ports. It is related to but broader than a single complex's awaiting-berth queue, and it is not a dwell time.
Container ships at anchor off West Coast ports fell to 0 ships for the week of Aug 24, 2026, from 1 ship the prior week. The count sits below both its trailing-12-month normal of 1 ship and its 5-year median of 2 ships.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 0 ships | 1 ship | -100.0% |
| Month over month | 0 ships | 1 ship | -100.0% |
| Year over year | 0 ships | 2 ships | -100.0% |
| vs 5-yr median | 0 ships | 2 ships | -100.0% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
One container ship sits at anchor off West Coast ports as of the week of Aug 17, in line with the trailing-12-month normal. Year-over-year, the count has declined by 2 ships.
Week of Aug 20, 2026
Container ships at anchor off West Coast ports stand at zero as of the week of August 10, down one ship year over year. The reading is well below the trailing-12-month normal of one ship and the five-year median of three ships, per BTS supply-chain indicators.
About West Coast ships at anchor
This page counts the container ships at anchor off West Coast ports, the coast-wide anchorage picture, weekly from the BTS supply-chain indicators. It is a broader lens than the per-complex awaiting-berth queue: a ship at anchor off the coast may be waiting for a berth at any of the coast's ports, holding for a schedule, or staged for other reasons, so the two counts are related but not the same number, and neither is a dwell time. Read this page for the coast's overall pressure and the per-complex queue pages for a specific gateway. A rising anchorage count across a coast is the widest early-warning signal the public record carries.