{"id":253,"date":"2026-09-14T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/us-container-terminals-face-waits-of-up-to-18-hours\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:41:42","slug":"us-container-terminals-face-waits-of-up-to-18-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/us-container-terminals-face-waits-of-up-to-18-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"US container terminals face waits of up to 18 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Container terminals at several major US gateways are facing vessel delays, <\/p>\n

with waiting times reaching up to 18 hours at Charleston and Savannah, according <\/p>\n

to Hapag-Lloyd\u2019s latest North America operational update.<\/p>\n

\"US<\/p>\n

At South Carolina Ports\u2019 Wando Welch Terminal, Hapag-Lloyd reported waits <\/p>\n

of up to six hours for Gemini Cooperation vessels and as much as 18 hours for <\/p>\n

non-Gemini services.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

No vessel waiting time was reported at the neighbouring North Charleston <\/p>\n

Terminal.<\/p>\n

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Truck turn times were averaging 24 minutes at Wando Welch and 23 minutes at <\/p>\n

North Charleston. Import dwell stood at 5.1 days and 3.8 days, respectively.<\/p>\n

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Savannah is also experiencing delays at Georgia Ports Authority\u2019s Garden <\/p>\n

City Terminal, where Hapag-Lloyd reported vessel waiting times of up to 18 <\/p>\n

hours.<\/p>\n

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The carrier said some berthing delays related to storms and lightning were <\/p>\n

expected to continue into the following week.<\/p>\n

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Average truck gate times at Savannah were 35 minutes for single <\/p>\n

transactions and 50 minutes for double transactions. Import containers were <\/p>\n

dwelling for an average of 2.6 days, while rail dwell stood at 1.3 days.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Further north, vessels calling at the Port of Virginia are also <\/p>\n

experiencing delays. Hapag-Lloyd reported waits of up to three hours for Gemini <\/p>\n

vessels at Virginia International Gateway and up to four hours for vessels at <\/p>\n

Norfolk International Terminals.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Average import dwell across the Virginia gateway was 2.5 days.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

At Port Houston, vessels were facing waits of up to three hours at both <\/p>\n

Barbours Cut and Bayport container terminals. Loaded import dwell averaged 2.2 <\/p>\n

days at Barbours Cut and 2.3 days at Bayport.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Hapag-Lloyd also reported that two cranes were unavailable at Bayport at <\/p>\n

the time of the update.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

On the US West Coast, the carrier reported no vessel waiting time at <\/p>\n

Oakland International Container Terminal, although average import deliveries <\/p>\n

were taking up to 5.6 days and gate turn times averaged 82 minutes.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

At APM Terminals Pier 400 in Los Angeles, Hapag-Lloyd\u2019s service-level data <\/p>\n

showed vessel waiting times of up to 12 hours.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Port of Los Angeles was recording an average local import dwell time of <\/p>\n

3.1 days and an on-dock rail dwell of four days.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Hapag-Lloyd also confirmed several vessel changes around the Labor Day <\/p>\n

period, including omissions at Charleston and Port Everglades as part of holiday <\/p>\n

contingency arrangements.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Container terminals at several major US gateways are facing vessel delays, with waiting times reaching up to 18 hours at Charleston and Savannah, according to Hapag-Lloyd\u2019s latest North America operational update.At South Carolina Ports\u2019 Wando Welch Terminal, Hapag-Lloyd reported waits of up to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hj_lang":[3],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"hj_lang","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hj_lang?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}