There are at least twelve 24s. Likely more are being built or at least contemplated. Most of the Chinamax ships are too big for Tampa which can only handle 10s, and the canal can only handle 14s. The 14s would have to go to NY-NJ, which is already backed up.
Anything coming from Asia over l4 to 16 would have to go the long way around - assuming the cargo would not suffer from the extra time.
So again Florida would not be much of a help, if any, on the shipping backlog.
Ok, I understand now. I thought you were talking about 24’ containers, not 24,000 TEU ships. So I wast talking at cross purposes.
A story in late October talked about 100 ships waiting and another 45 on the way. I doubt many of them were bigger than Super Panamax. I thnk Miami has been enlarged to handle Panamax; at one point Charlston and Savannah were fighting over federal money for dredging. I think Virginia can handle the Super Panamx, but am not postivie about that. In any event, if only Panamax and Super Panamax were diverted from LA and Long Beach, leaving the larger ships to those ports, it should still help a lot.