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MarineTraffic free vessel-density anchorage count

Number of vessels shown at anchor/waiting off Colombo, Beirut, Lagos Apapa and Chittagong from the free public map layer

Feed detail
Measures
Number of vessels shown at anchor/waiting off Colombo, Beirut, Lagos Apapa and Chittagong from the free public map layer
Source
marinetraffic.com public density map (no login tier)
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Rising anchorage backlog at an FX-constrained port means importers can't get dollars to clear cargo (LCs stuck) — a physical proxy for FX rationing before it hits headlines.
Maps to
LKR, LBP, NGN, BDT
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tC
Ban-risk
ban:high
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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