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BTS Maritime and Ports
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.
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  • Making Sense of Passenger Vessel Data [Special Report]
    Published Date:
    2011-07-01
    Abstract:
    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 w...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.61 MB]
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report to Congress 2018
    Published Date:
    2019-04-01
    Abstract:
    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 capac...
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    Filetype[PDF - 16.07 MB]
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report to Congress 2017
    Published Date:
    2018-02-13
    Abstract:
    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 a...
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    Filetype[PDF - 16.05 MB]
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report to Congress 2017 [Supporting Datasets]
    Published Date:
    2018-02-13
    Abstract:
    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 a...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 903.38 KB]
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics in 2019: Annual Report to Congress 2020
    Published Date:
    2021-01-01
    Abstract:
    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 ann...
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    Filetype[PDF - 11.15 MB]
  • Port Performance Freight Statistics in 2018: Annual Report to Congress 2019
    Published Date:
    2020-01-01
    Abstract:
    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 ann...
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    Filetype[PDF - 11.11 MB]
  • America's Container Ports: Linking Markets at Home and Abroad
    Published Date:
    2011-01-01
    Abstract:
    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 movemen...
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    Filetype[PDF - 2.78 MB]
  • America's container ports: freight hubs that connect our nation to global markets
    Published Date:
    2009-06-01
    Abstract:
    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 mer...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 1.21 MB]
  • America's Container Ports: Delivering the Goods
    Published Date:
    2007-03-01
    Abstract:
    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 ...
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    Filetype[PDF - 522.73 KB]
  • The Changing Tide of U.S.-International Container Trade: Differences Among the U.S. Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts [Special Report]
    Published Date:
    2011-12-01
    Abstract:
    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 t...
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    Filetype[PDF - 3.75 MB]
  • Gulf Coast Ports Surrounding the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
    Published Date:
    2010-06-01
    Abstract:
    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 ap...
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    Filetype[PDF - 2.52 MB]
  • Ocean Passenger Vessels: Migrating South for the Winter
    Published Date:
    2010-01-01
    Abstract:
    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 s...
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    Filetype[PDF - 365.50 KB]
  • Atlantic Coast U.S. Seaports
    Published Date:
    2010-10-01
    Abstract:
    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 th...
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    Filetype[PDF - 4.08 MB]
  • International piracy and armed robbery at sea : hindering maritime trade and water transportation around the world
    Published Date:
    2010-04-01
    Abstract:
    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)...
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    Filetype[PDF - 466.06 KB]
  • 2016 Highlights of Ferry Operations in the United States
    Published Date:
    2017-10-01
    Abstract:
    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. Bas...
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    Filetype[PDF - 3.61 MB]
  • Highlights of [the 2010 National Census of] Ferry Operators in the United States
    Published Date:
    2014-09-01
    Abstract:
    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 other...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 368.93 KB]
  • Highlights of the 2008 National Census of Ferry Operators
    Published Date:
    2010-12-01
    Abstract:
    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 6,00...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 605.15 KB]