Savannah ships awaiting berth

Container ships waiting offshore for a berth to open at Savannah, weekly, from MARAD and the Marine Exchange

Data through week of Nov 2, 2026 · source last checked Nov 5, 2026 · page revised Nov 4, 2026

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Savannah: 2 ships awaiting berth as of week of Nov 2, 2026, weekly from MARAD and the Marine Exchange (via BTS). The Dwell. https://the-dwell.com/waiting/savannah

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<p style="font-size:11px;color:#6b6b6b;margin:2px 0 0">About this data: MARAD and the Marine Exchange, via BTS Supply Chain and Freight Indicators · Container ships awaiting berth · Queue count, not a dwell time · Savannah · vessels · Weekly reading · through week of Nov 2, 2026</p>

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About this data

Source: MARAD and the Marine Exchange, via BTS Supply Chain and Freight Indicators
Series: Container ships awaiting berth
Basis: Queue count, not a dwell time
Geography: Savannah
Unit: vessels
Calculation: Weekly reading
Last observation: week of Nov 2, 2026
Update frequency: Weekly

Ships awaiting berth at Savannah is 2 ships as of week of Nov 2, 2026, near its trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships. This is a ship QUEUE, not a dwell time. Well below the 2021 to 2023 congestion era, when the queue ran into the dozens.

The ship queue at Savannah eased to 2 ships awaiting berth as of the week of Nov 2, down from 3 the prior week. The queue is at its trailing-12-month normal and well below the 2021 to 2023 congestion era, when it ran into the dozens.

Period moves and the seasonal vs-N-yr median (a prior-years comparison). The card verdict and the friction board use each series' trailing-12-month median, the friction rule.
Period	Current	Prior	Change
Week over week	2 ships	3 ships	-33.3%
Month over month	2 ships	1 ship	+100.0%
Year over year	2 ships	n/a	n/a
vs 4-yr median	2 ships	15 ships	-86.2%

Previous weeks

Week of Oct 27, 2026

Savannah ships awaiting berth: 3 ships this week (MARAD), near the trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships. The import-friction read remains flowing. The count sits 86% below the four-year median.

Week of Oct 20, 2026

Ships awaiting berth at Savannah is 0 as of the week of Oct 19, 2026, down 2 ships from the prior week. The queue is below its trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships.

Week of Oct 13, 2026

Ships awaiting berth at Savannah rose to 2 this week, up 100% week over week from 1, per MARAD and the Marine Exchange. The count is 89% below the four-year median and sits near the trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships. Savannah's import-friction read remains Flowing.

Week of Oct 6, 2026

Ships awaiting berth at Savannah eased to 1 vessel as of the week of Oct 5, down 1 ship month over month. The queue sits below its trailing-12-month normal of 2 ships, well below the dozens of vessels that regularly awaited berths in 2021 to 2023.

About Savannah ships awaiting berth

This page tracks the number of container ships waiting offshore for a berth to open at Savannah. It is a queue, a count of ships, and it is not a dwell time: a vessel in the queue has not yet reached a berth. The count comes from MARAD and the Marine Exchange and updates weekly, so it is the most current congestion signal on the site. A rising queue is an early warning that boxes will start to sit; an empty queue is shown as zero ships, never as a zero dwell.