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Tragic! The port of Vancouver, Canada, is in urgent need of berths, ships are lined up, and the railway is also “dropping the chain”!
Feb 22,2025
Recently, the foreign trade community will focus on the developments of the Port of Vancouver, Canada's gateway to the west coast! Due to the limitation of inland rail transport routes and the ongoing restructuring of the liner alliance, the reliability of liner flights has been greatly reduced and declining.
Congestion in the Port of Vancouver is expected to get worse in the coming weeks amid a combination of adverse factors. Hapag-lloyd, the German shipping giant, yesterday urgently informed its customers:“Impacted by the harsh winter weather across Canada, the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway Corporation (CPKC Rail) and the National Railway Corporation of Canada (CN Rail) have both implemented tiered operation restrictions.
This includes shortening the length of the train assembly and reducing the speed of the train, a series of operations that have caused some minor delays.
To make matters worse, such conditions are expected to last another 10 to 14 days, which will undoubtedly increase the length of time imported goods remain in port.”
Hapag-lloyd further revealed that the Vancouver Delta Terminal (GCT Delta terminal) utilization rate has reached as high as 102%, the ship "faces up to nine days of berth delays"; DP World's Centerm was slightly better, but also had 83 per cent utilization and berth delays ranging from four to nine days. Due to rail transport restrictions, the length of imported containers in port has risen steadily, currently spending 4.1 days at the Vancouver Delta terminal and 5.9 days at the Sentem terminal.
While Vancouver's berth planners expect the port to be quite busy in the coming weeks, a closer look at the details of the ships awaiting berth at the port reveals that other hidden factors are at play, according to liner database eeSea.
According to the latest data from the platform, about 25% of ships in the Port of Vancouver are currently waiting for a berth, and some of these ships are waiting a very long time, driving up the overall average berth waiting time.
Take a look at these "wearable" ships:
"Maersk Monte Olivia" (Maersk Monte Olivia), has been suffering for nine days;
The Marcos V also waited nine days;
The MSC Utmost VIII is 11 days long.
The Seaspan Falcon waited seven days;
"Yangming Enterprise" (YM Movement) and "Yangming Plum" (YM Plum) waited 7 and 6 days, respectively;
The YM Tranquility waited 10 days;
The YM Uniform also waited eight days.
There is, however, an exception to this. MSC Elisa XIII, 13100 TEU, EeSea's records show it waited for a total of 16 days, but there were intervals during the long wait, which may mean it was repositioning, which also shows that port operations may be constrained by liner customer demand.
Consider the 6,350 TEU Marcos V, operated by Maersk, which is phasing out of service on the 2M Alliance's Trans-Pacific Western Canadian Northern Coast (WCNA) 5 Loop.
It was about 16 days late at its last port of call, Prince Rupert, and at the current pace, it is expected to arrive at Vancouver for anchor around 28 days later than scheduled. A ship that is more than two weeks late and whose estimated arrival time (ETA) is still changing, it is obviously not realistic to be prioritized in the short term.
At this point, Hongde solemnly reminds foreign trade partners who have recently sent goods to the port that they must pay close attention to the congestion and delays in the Port of Vancouver, prepare their response plans in advance, and don't let the goods shipment "clog" due to the port congestion.
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