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BTS Maritime and Ports

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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 21 - 33 of 33 results
  • Highlights of the 2008 National Census of Ferry Operators
    Highlights of the 2008 National Census of Ferry Operators
    Goldberg, Bruce ;
    Firestine, Theresa
    2010-12-01 | National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO) | PDF
    In 2007, 190 ferry operators across the Nation provided service to an estimated 106 million passengers through nearly 500 terminals in 37 States and 3 U.S. Territories, using a fleet of almost 700 active vessels with capacity to carry as many as 6,000 passengers at a time, or as few as 2. Service was provided on nearly 350 different route segments, ...
  • Atlantic Coast US Seaports
    Atlantic Coast U.S. Seaports
    Chambers, Matthew ;
    Menegus, Dominic
    2010-10-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs | PDF
    This fact sheet highlights the major Atlantic container ports of New York/New Jersey, Virginia, Savannah, and Charleston. Containerships and containerized cargo comprise the bulk of vessel calls and most of the vessel value at these seaports along the eastern seaboard. Commodities transiting the canal to the Atlantic ports include auto parts, banan ...
  • Gulf Coast Ports Surrounding the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
    Gulf Coast Ports Surrounding the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
    Chambers, Matthew ;
    Menegus, Dominic
    2010-06-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs | PDF
    This fact sheet provides a snapshot of two major seaports (New Orleans, LA, and Mobile, AL) and summary tables of other Gulf coast seaports close to the Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) explosion and oil spill. New Orleans is approximately 132 miles from the site, and Mobile is approximately 136 miles from the site.
  • International Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea Hindering Maritime Trade and Water Transportation around the World
    International Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea: Hindering Maritime Trade and Water Transportation around the World
    Chambers, Matthew ;
    Menegus, Dominic
    2010-04-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs | PDF
    Pirates prey upon targets of opportunity. Given optimal conditions (e.g., calm weather, slow cruising speed, and daylight4) relatively small, fast vessels (e.g., containerships) may be no less at risk than large, slower vessels (e.g., crude carriers). The vessels held by pirates can range from 2,000 to 100,000 deadweight tons.
  • Ocean Passenger Vessels Migrating South for the Winter
    Ocean Passenger Vessels: Migrating South for the Winter
    Chambers, Matthew
    ORCID ICON IMG
    2010-01-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs | PDF
    In response to consumer demand, the passenger vessels that operate from seaports along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts alternate between north and south. Passenger vessels that sail out of ports such as New York, Baltimore and Seattle in the summer, lift anchor and steam for departure ports such as Miami, Tampa and Los Angeles, or overseas m ...
  • US Ocean Passenger Terminals Serving Larger Vessels Closer to Home and Central Transit Connections
    U.S. Ocean Passenger Terminals: Serving Larger Vessels Closer to Home and Central Transit Connections
    Chambers, Matthew ;
    Menegus, Dominic
    2010-01-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs | PDF
    The ocean passenger industry has undergone substantial changes in recent years. In response to market conditions, passenger vessel operators are deploying larger vessels, cutting fares, changing destinations, and embarking from seaports closer to travelers in major metropolitan areas. In the United States, many new and renovated ocean passenger ter ...
  • Americas Container Ports Freight Hubs That Connect Our Nation to Global Markets
    America’s Container Ports: Freight Hubs That Connect Our Nation to Global Markets
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2009-06-01 | PDF
    The U.S. marine transportation system continues to handle large volumes of domestic and international freight in support of the nation's economic activities. The demand for freight transportation responds to trends in global economic activity and merchandise trade. When U.S. businesses produce more goods, the demand for freight transportation servi ...
  • Maritime Vessels Carry More than Half of Growing USEast Africa Trade
    Maritime Vessels Carry More than Half of Growing U.S.-East Africa Trade
    Beningo, Steven ;
    Liu, Zhi
    2009-03-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs | PDF
    Trade between the United States and East African countries (defined in this special report as Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) has grown substantially in recent years, reaching $1.3 billion in value in 2007. Between 1997 and 2007, U.S. exports to East Africa increased at an average annual rate of 9.1 percent per year, while imports gre ...
  • Highlights of the 2006 National Census of Ferry Operators
    Highlights of the 2006 National Census of Ferry Operators
    Roberto, Elizabeth
    2008-08-01 | National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO) | PDF
    At the request of Congress, in 2006 the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, conducted a Census of Ferry Operators. Selected findings are described, including: Nationwide, ferries transported a total of 108 million passengers in 2005; Travel by fe ...
  • Americas Container Ports Delivering the Goods
    America's Container Ports: Delivering the Goods
    Ammah-Tagoe, Felix
    2007-03-01 | PDF
    Five decades ago, the containership revolution started in the United States, changing how the United States and the world handle international freight transportation. In 2006, world maritime container traffic was estimated at 417 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) (loaded and empty) — 10 percent more than the 378 million TEUs transported i ...
  • Maritime Trade Transportation 2007
    Maritime Trade & Transportation 2007
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2005-01-10 | PDF
    This latest edition of Maritime Trade and Transportation follows two prior reports released in 1999 and 2002. These reports reflect an ongoing effort by the Maritime Data Working Group to provide quality, timely, comprehensive, and relevant maritime-related data and information to federal, state, and local government and maritime industry stakehold ...
  • Maritime Trade Transportation 2002
    Maritime Trade & Transportation 2002
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2002-01-01 | PDF
    The Marine Transportation System (MTS) contributes to U.S. economic growth, enhances U.S. global competitiveness, and supports national security objectives. The MTS consists of an extensive network of waterways, ports, and their intermodal connectors, vessels, vehicles, and system users. Each component of this system is dependent on the other for t ...
  • Maritime Trade Transportation 1999
    Maritime Trade & Transportation 1999
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    1999-01-01 | PDF
    The marine transportation system contributes to U.S. economic growth, enhances global competitiveness, and supports national security objectives. This report is a cooperative effort of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the Maritime Administration (MARAD), and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) in the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), ...
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