The waters off the coast of Southern California continued to see record-breaking numbers of cargo ships this week as one city opened its harbor to help with the overflow. The ports broke a new record Nov. 9 with 168 ships waiting to unload goods. That included 55 ships drifting at sea, 48 at anchor, and 65 ships docked. Another record fell the same day when 49 container ships were forced to drift off the coast, unable to anchor or dock at the overloaded twin ports. “This is record-setting levels at anchor and record-setting levels at loitering,” Kip Louttit, head of the Marine Exchange of Southern California, told The Epoch Times. The ships were forced to run their engines and “loiter” in designated areas off the coast, maintaining a buffer of three miles from each ship and three miles from land and the shipping lanes, until they are assigned an anchorage …