LOS ANGELES—The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will implement a new queuing process requiring ships to wait for an available berth approximately 150 miles offshore. Effective Nov. 16, each vessel will be assigned a place in the arrival queue based on their departure time from their last port of call. Vessels will wait outside the new boundaries known as the Safety and Air Quality Area, allowing them to slow down and spread out, according to the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, one of the developers of the plan. Under the current system, container vessels enter the arrival queue based on when they cross a line 20 nautical miles from the San Pedro Bay Port Complex. The new process requires eastbound ships to remain 150 miles west of Southern California, while northbound and southbound ships must remain more than 50 miles from California and Mexico. Vessels can come into the …