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Container Import Dwell Time

2 years, 2023–2024 · 156 countries · 3 measures

Container import dwell time is how many days a full shipping container typically sits in the port where it arrives before it leaves by truck or train — the time taken by port handling, customs and other border checks together. The World Bank measures it from the tracking records of real container journeys, rather than by asking people what they think.

This site holds every year from 2023 to 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Container Import Dwell Time · the file

Newest
Container Import Dwell Time, 2024
Held
2 years · 311 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

012 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

2023bar height: countries covered, up to 1562024
Every year of Container Import Dwell Time held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Container Import Dwell Time, 2024Newest156+1September 29, 2026CSV
Container Import Dwell Time, 2023155—September 29, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: container-import-dwell-time-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

026 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Container Import Dwell Time: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1560
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1560
Median days a full import container waits in portimport_dwell_daysHeadlineThe headline figure: Median days a full import container waits in port.Number · up to 1 decimal1.0Gibraltar21.6Haitimiddle 4.4790
Mean daysmean_daysMeasureThe average number of days a full import container waited in port; a few very long waits pull it above the median.Number · up to 1 decimal1.3Montserrat32.5Sudanmiddle 6.2920
Interquartile range, P75 − P25 (days)spread_daysMeasureHow uneven the wait is: the gap in days between the slowest quarter of containers and the fastest quarter (the 75th minus the 25th percentile).Number · up to 1 decimal0.1Gibraltar37.6Eritreamiddle 5.5840
Container journeys observedobservationsLabelHow many container journeys the figure rests on, as the publisher's own range, from tens to more than ten thousand.Text—30

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03156 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Container Import Dwell Time, by continent.
20232024
Africa3838
Americas4242
Asia3535
Europe2728
Oceania1313
All155156

Who joined and who left

Not in this dataset · 69 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAndorraArmeniaAustriaAzerbaijanBelarusBermudaBhutanBoliviaBosnia and HerzegovinaBotswanaBurkina FasoBurundiCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsCook IslandsCzechiaEswatiniEthiopiaFaroe IslandsGreenlandHungaryIranIsle of ManIsraelKazakhstanKiribatiKosovoKyrgyzstanLaosLesothoLiechtensteinLuxembourgMalawiMaliMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMoldovaMonacoMongoliaNauruNepalNigerNiueNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusPalauPalestineParaguayRussiaRwandaSaint MartinSan MarinoSerbiaSlovakiaSomalilandSouth SudanSwitzerlandTajikistanTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUgandaUzbekistanVatican CityZambiaZimbabwe

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Bank Group

    lpi.worldbank.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Container Import Dwell Time 2024

    WB_LPI_20_WIDEF.csv

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    2 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as container-import-dwell-time-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/container-import-dwell-timeA key for Mobility & Trade in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From World Bank Data360 (Logistics Performance Indicators 2.0, 2025 report), published to one decimal of a day. The number of container journeys behind each figure is the Bank's own note.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, Container Import Dwell Time, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Container Import Dwell Time, 2023–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/container-import-dwell-time

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Logistics Performance Indicators (LPI 2.0) 2025. Washington, DC: World Bank Group. https://lpi.worldbank.org/

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.