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About 9,500 rail-bound import boxes at Los Angeles and 5,063 at Long Beach had waited nine days or more for a train as of 12 November, up from 8,133 and 2,429 on 26 October. Longshore locals have said they will honour any watchmen picket line, which adds strike risk around the 20 November deadline.
Slow inland rail movement raises storage costs and delays deliveries for importers, and a port strike would add a shutdown risk on top of the existing backlog. Feed buyers relying on containerized imports could see higher landed costs and tighter near-term availability.
forwardernews.comNov 13, 2026Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 823 past logistics events, Wheat (SRW) moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (46% higher; middle half -1.5% to +1.2%), and -0.1% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
