Some two dozen container ships appear to be stuck at sea miles off the south shore of Long Island. MarineTraffic, the global ship tracking site, shows cargo ships and oil tankers clustered just a few miles off of the coastline that stretches from Long Beach in the west to Lido Beach and Jones Beach Island in the east
The May 2021 image above shows the CMA CGM Marco Polo arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey. The port surpassed Long Beach, California as the second busying port in the United States earlier this year
The Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach currently has 62 cargo ships waiting to dock
Pandemic-driven port congestion and labor shortages have forced retail chains including Costco to spend more on transportation. Cargo ships are pictured on September 20 waiting to dock at traffic-clogged Los Angeles ports
The west coast ports serve as the entry point for a third of imports to the US, and are the main import point for goods coming from China
In an aerial view, container ships are anchored by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles as they wait to offload on September 20
Amid a record-high demand for imported goods and a shortage of shipping containers and truckers, the twin ports are currently seeing unprecedented congestion
Container ships are seen sitting out in the Pacific Ocean as they wait to dock at the Port of Los Angeles
A record number of cargo container ships wait to unload due to the jammed ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach near Long Beach, California, pictured on Wednesday
About 40 percent of all cargo containers entering the US pass through the Port of Los Angeles
Cargo container ships anchored outside the port of Long Beach in mid August, when the number of ships anchored there was 40, the previous record
Prices for a cargo container have skyrocketed from $2,000 two years ago to as much as $25,000 this year
Cargo ships (pictured September 13) wait to dock at traffic-clogged Los Angeles ports
The ports serve as the entry point for a third of imports to the US, and are the main import point for goods coming from China
The port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which moves 40 percent of containers in the US currently has 62 cargo ships waiting to enter the port
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