Carriers restored six blanked sailings this week, and the first softening since May is showing up in Wednesday's assessments.
The Cape detour now costs more per box than the emergency levy recovers, and the string is sailing at 71% utilisation.
A record month for the port, and the chassis pool is the constraint everyone on the dock names first.
Complaints cite per-diem charges accruing on days the gate was closed to empty returns.
Brokers filing under the new HTS subheadings report holds averaging nine days at the Los Angeles port director's office.
The target files roughly 40,000 US entries a month, which buys visibility into clearance timing nobody else sells.
No date is set, but Houston box volumes are already being quoted with a contingency clause through October.
Two of the port's larger drayage fleets have stopped taking same-week appointments from non-contract shippers.
Transpacific air yields have held at $4.85 per kilo for five weeks, which is the argument for adding lift.
The continuous bond minimum moves to $75,000, and sureties are already repricing renewals for single-office brokerages.
Average IPI transit from LA/LB reached 9.4 days last week, a full day longer than the June average.