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Port Authority Vessel Queue / At-Anchor Count

Number of container vessels queued or at anchor awaiting berth at major US ports

Feed detail
Measures
Number of container vessels queued or at anchor awaiting berth at major US ports
Source
Individual port authority dashboards (Port of LA/Long Beach Signal, Port of NY/NJ vessel schedules) rather than the commodity MarineTraffic feed
Access
json-api
Cadence
intradayupdates multiple times a day
Thesis
Queue backlog predicts surges in longshore overtime hours and casual-labor call-ups before official TEU throughput releases
Maps to
Port labor demand, import-heavy retailers, freight forwarders
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:low
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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