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BTS Maritime and Ports

rosaP Repository & Open Science Access Portal

This maritime and port collection includes fact sheets, interagency reports, special reports, and reports to Congress published by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. These provide insights into topics such as container shipping, cruise ships, ferries, port and waterway operations, and port performance measures. Users can interact with port capacity and throughput measures for the Nation’s largest tonnage, container, and dry bulk ports at https://www.bts.gov/ports. Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_bts_ports or https://doi.org/10.21949/1530821.

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Showing 1 - 20 of 33 results
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics 2025 Annual Report
    Port Performance Freight Statistics: 2025 Annual Report
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2025-01-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress | PDF
    Section 6018 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act mandates BTS, within the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), establish a port performance statistics program. This program aims to provide nationally consistent performance measures for, at least, the nation’s top 25 ports, ranked by tonnage, twenty-foot equivalent units ...
  • 2024 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report to Congress
    2024 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report to Congress
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-01-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress | PDF
    Pursuant to the requirements of Section 6018 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act; P.L. 114-94; Dec. 4, 2015; 49 USC 6314), the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has completed the 2024 annual report of the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program. The FAST Act requires BTS to report on the top 25 maritime ports as ...
  • 2023 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report to Congress
    2023 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report to Congress
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-01-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress | PDF
    Pursuant to the requirements of Section 6018 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act; P.L. 114-94; Dec. 4, 2015; 49 USC 6314), the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has completed the 2023 annual report of the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program. The FAST Act requires BTS to report on the top 25 maritime ports as ...
  • 2022 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report and Dataset
    2022 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report and Dataset
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-01-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress | PDF
    Given that the Nation's maritime ports moves more international cargo by weight and value than any other U.S. mode of transportation, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act of 2015 established the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Th ...
    Supporting Files
  • 2022 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program SupplyChain Feature
    2022 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Supply-Chain Feature
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-01-01 | PDF
    Pursuant to the requirements of Section 6018 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act; P.L. 114-94; Dec. 4, 2015; 49 USC 6314), the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has completed the 2022 annual report of the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program.The FAST Act requires the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) ...
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics in 2019 Annual Report to Congress 2020
    Port Performance Freight Statistics in 2019: Annual Report to Congress 2020
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-01-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress | PDF
    The Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act established the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program (PPFSP) in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). The FAST Act requires an annual report to Congress that includes statistics on capacity and throughput for selected maritime por ...
  • Combining Truck and Vessel Tracking Data to Estimate Performance and Impacts of Inland Ports
    Combining Truck and Vessel Tracking Data to Estimate Performance and Impacts of Inland Ports
    Hernandez, Sarah V ;
    Asborno, Magdalena I
    2020-08-01 | PDF
    The purpose of this project is to estimate the performance of multi-modal supply chains that use inland waterway ports. This is accomplished by developing a method to fuse publicly available datasets including truck and marine vessel tracking data and lock performance data. The study builds on a growing body of research related to multi-modal freig ...
  • Measures of Freight Network Resiliency During the Covid19 Pandemic
    Measures of Freight Network Resiliency During the Covid-19 Pandemic
    Hernandez, Sarah V ;
    Balthrop, Andrew
    2020-07-01 | PDF
    Recent headlines depict significant shifts in operations within the freight community in particular, e.g., HOS laws suspended at a national level for the first time in 82 years; national carriers shifting operations completely to grocery supply chains; fleet operators laying off employees in response to manufacturing closures. As a result of the cu ...
  • Interdisciplinary Education Outreach with Traffic Sensor Build Kits
    Interdisciplinary Education Outreach with Traffic Sensor Build Kits
    Hernandez, Sarah ;
    Crews, Mariah B
    2020-07-01 | PDF
    The goal of this project was to attract K-12 students to transportation engineering careers through Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outreach programs. To accomplish this goal, the object of the project was to design and implement maritime freight oriented educational outreach activities centered on traffic sensing technolog ...
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics in 2018 Annual Report to Congress 2019
    Port Performance Freight Statistics in 2018: Annual Report to Congress 2019
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2020-01-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress | PDF
    The Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act established the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program (PPFSP) in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). The FAST Act requires an annual report to Congress that includes statistics on capacity and throughput for selected maritime por ...
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report to Congress 2018
    Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report to Congress 2018
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2019-04-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress | PDF
    This is the third edition of the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report, which builds on the foundation of the inaugural 2016 Annual Report. In the first edition, BTS published existing, nationally consistent measures of port capacity and throughput and explained the criteria used to define ports and the measures used to define t ...
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report to Congress 2017 [Supporting Datasets]
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2018-02-13 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress | ZIP
    This is the second edition of the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report, which builds on the foundation of the 2016 Annual Report. In the inaugural edition, BTS published existing, nationally consistent measures of port capacity and throughput, and explained the criteria used to define ports and the measures used to define the t ...
    Dataset Supporting Files
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report to Congress 2017
    Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report to Congress 2017
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2018-02-13 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress | PDF
    This is the second edition of the Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report, which builds on the foundation of the 2016 Annual Report. In the inaugural edition, BTS published existing, nationally consistent measures of port capacity and throughput, and explained the criteria used to define ports and the measures used to define the t ...
  • 2016 Highlights of Ferry Operations in the United States
    2016 Highlights of Ferry Operations in the United States
    McFadden, Janine ;
    Barrows, Andrew
    2017-10-01 | National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO) | PDF
    This publication highlights data collected by the 2016 NCFO. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) conducted the NCFO from April through November 2016, collecting the operational characteristics of the 2015 calendar year ferry operations. Based on those ferry operations that responded to the 2016 National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO), a ...
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Report to Congress 2016
    Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report to Congress 2016
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2017-01-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress | PDF
    In Section 6018 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, Congress requires the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to establish "a port performance statistics program to provide nationally consistent measures of performance of, at a minimum—the Nation's top 25 ports by tonnage ...
  • 2014 Highlights of Ferry Operations in the United States
    2014 Highlights of Ferry Operations in the United States
    Steve, Kenneth ;
    Parker, Julie
    2016-05-01 | National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO) | PDF
    Based on information provided by operators who responded to the 2014 National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO), the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) conservatively estimates that ferries in the United States carried just over 115 million passengers and over 30 million vehicles in 2013. The Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST ...
  • Highlights of the 2010 National Census of Ferry Operators in the United States
    Highlights of [the 2010 National Census of] Ferry Operators in the United States
    Steve, Kenneth ;
    Parker, Julie
    2014-09-01 | National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO) | PDF
    Ferries provide links for commuters in major metropolitan areas and offer a means of transportation across bodies of water not easily served by bridges or tunnels. Ferries are also used for emergency evacuations in times of disaster, natural or otherwise. Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP21) (Public Law 112-141, section 1121(a) ...
  • The Changing Tide of USInternational Container Trade Differences Among the US Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Coasts
    The Changing Tide of U.S.-International Container Trade: Differences Among the U.S. Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts
    Chambers, Matthew
    ORCID ICON IMG
    2011-12-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs | PDF
    This BTS special report examines historical U.S. maritime trends, changes in U.S. trading partners, and current U.S. marine trade patterns. More specifically, it compares container vessel calls, container vessel capacity, and the average deadweight tonnage of vessels calling at U.S. Pacific Coast seaports and, increasingly, along the U.S. Atlantic ...
  • Making Sense of Passenger Vessel Data
    Making Sense of Passenger Vessel Data
    Chambers, Matthew
    ORCID ICON IMG
    2011-07-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs | PDF
    The absence of legal definitions to describe waterborne passenger vessels, such as cruise ships and ferries, may pose a challenge for researchers attempting to collect, sort, and analyze passenger data. A variety of definitions are used to describe waterborne passenger vessels and the port and terminal infrastructures that support them. Lacking com ...
  • Americas Container Ports Linking Markets at Home and Abroad
    America's Container Ports: Linking Markets at Home and Abroad
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2011-01-01 | PDF
    This report provides an overview of the movement of maritime freight handled by the Nation's container ports in 2009 through mid-2010, based on the most current available data through that time period. It summarizes trends in maritime freight movement since 1995, especially during the last 5 years. It also covers the impact of the recent U.S. and g ...
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