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Long Beach Container Terminal –
Container Dwell Time Update 8/13/26
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The overall average import intermodal dwell at LBCT (Long Beach Container Terminal) is 10.33 days which is an increase from last week’s 8.03 days (WED August 5th). Today’s overall number of dwelling OOCL on-dock intermodal containers at LBCT is 2350 down by 2152 containers from last week’s 4502. The longest dwelling intermodal container at LBCT today is 24 days (last week it was 23 days) LBCT continues to focus on ramping and departing the longest dwelling containers first.
BNSF reported a derailment on Monday evening near Needles, CA which closed BNSF’s mainlines 1 & 2 in both directions. This derailment caused over 50 BNSF trains to be held, both tracks are now open and trains are moving. Because of this derailment, LBCT had no flatcars to load, two rail shifts were lost waiting for westbound trains to arrive.
The terminal is continuing to dray import intermodal containers from LBCT to BNSF Hobart. This is improvement allows containers to flow on the rail to Houston, St Louis, and Kansas City. This week some Ohio Valley destinations are also being drayed to Hobart. These off-dock drays will continue until the number of dwelling containers is drastically reduced.
The terminal continues to emphasize that longer dwelling containers for individual customers will not be prioritized, as previously mentioned, it will only delay the movement of all containers.
All westbound trains arriving in Southern California for LBCT have delivered to LBCT upon arrival, this means export misconnects should be minimal if any.
Additional information an be found on the Port of Long Beach’s dashboard (https://polb.com/cargo-nav/port-operations#operations-dashboard).
The below graphs and the above data are OOCL’s intermodal numbers only (does not include other OA partner lines or LBCT’s 3rd party customers):
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