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The US Trade Ledger — every US container gateway, every partner country, every month. Census-recorded, AIS-verified.
TT-009 · Berth queueing

Average waiting rate by gateway

tt009.gateway.waiting-rate observed

Sum of waiting hours divided by sum of hours alongside berth — UNCTAD (1983), codified as World Bank Transport PS-6 (Chung, 1993) indicator 6. Design range 0.05-0.20, PIANC about 0.165. An aggregate ratio, never an average of ratios.

We pulled this number.

STATUS: WITHDRAWN · SINCE 1970-01 · RETURNS WHEN THE CONDITION BELOW IS MET

THREE OPEN BLOCKERS. (1) Right-censoring deletes the longest waits and the bias grows with congestion. (2) Not reconciled against the World Bank CPPI annex, whose published berth-share converts arithmetically to this same rate. (3) The fleet-mix check is unrun: waiting falls with ship size while service time rises, so this could measure fleet composition rather than port performance. See berthing/PHASES.md. We will not serve data we cannot stand behind, so this page stays up but the numbers do not.

More on the practice: withdrawn data.

Unit
ratio
Evidence
EVIDENCE: OBSERVED
Tempo
TEMPO: MEDIUM
Covers
2026-07-26 → now

We watched it happen: our own AIS receivers (via the aisstream.io terrestrial network), our timestamps, our archive.

Cite this

In print: Average waiting rate by gateway, per the Trimtab US Trade Ledger, an independent mirror of Own AIS receivers, via the TT-001 archive (retrieved 2026-08-06) — trimtabist.com/series/tt009.gateway.waiting-rate
For the record: Trimtab TT-009 Berth queueing, "Average waiting rate by gateway" (retrieved 2026-08-06).
Trimtabist TT-009 Berth queueing, own AIS receivers, 10 US container gateways. Method: berthing/METHOD.md. Grade: observed.
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Machine readable

Updated: 2026-08-06 (regenerated on every request from the live registry)
/series/tt009.gateway.waiting-rate.csv — tidy long format
/series/tt009.gateway.waiting-rate.metadata.json — provenance, coverage, citation
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