Depends which coast you ask. The median container ship at LA–Long Beach and Oakland is now 333 m (+39 m and +34 m since 2018) — while Norfolk moved 0 m, Seattle −1 m, and Charleston's median ship shrank 22 m.
What it does not say
It does not rank port quality — draft limits, cranes and channel depth choose the ships, and the divide measures the cascade, not performance.
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Using the Trimtab event_studies tool, how did the median vessel size change at each US gateway between 2018 and 2024?
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“How big are the ships calling at US ports now?”
Depends which coast you ask. The median container ship at LA–Long Beach and Oakland is now 333 m (+39 m and +34 m since 2018) — while Norfolk moved 0 m, Seattle −1 m, and Charleston's median ship shrank 22 m.
It does not rank port quality — draft limits, cranes and channel depth choose the ships, and the divide measures the cascade, not performance.
I asked the Trimtab US Trade Ledger — open, no key, no account. Ask it something we
haven’t: https://trimtabist.com/asked/how-big-are-the-ships
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