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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. Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_bts_ports.

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    Making Sense of Passenger Vessel Data
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    Chambers, Matthew
    2011-07-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs
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    The absence of legal definitions to describe waterborne passenger vessels, such as cruise ships and ferries, may pose a challenge for researchers atte...
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    America’s Container Ports: Freight Hubs That Connect Our Nation to Global Markets
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2009-06-01
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    The U.S. marine transportation system continues to handle large volumes of domestic and international freight in support of the nation's economic acti...
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    America's Container Ports: Linking Markets at Home and Abroad
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2011-01-01
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    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 mo...
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    America's Container Ports: Delivering the Goods
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    Ammah-Tagoe, Felix
    2007-03-01
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    Five decades ago, the containership revolution started in the United States, changing how the United States and the world handle international freight...
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    Atlantic Coast U.S. Seaports
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    Chambers, Matthew ;
    Menegus, Dominic
    2010-10-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs
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    This fact sheet highlights the major Atlantic container ports of New York/New Jersey, Virginia, Savannah, and Charleston. Containerships and container...
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    Maritime Trade & Transportation 1999
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    1999-01-01
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    The marine transportation system contributes to U.S. economic growth, enhances global competitiveness, and supports national security objectives. This...
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    Maritime Trade & Transportation 2007
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2005-01-10
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    This latest edition of Maritime Trade and Transportation follows two prior reports released in 1999 and 2002. These reports reflect an ongoing effort ...
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    Maritime Trade & Transportation 2002
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2002-01-01
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    The Marine Transportation System (MTS) contributes to U.S. economic growth, enhances U.S. global competitiveness, and supports national security objec...
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    Maritime Vessels Carry More than Half of Growing U.S.-East Africa Trade
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    Beningo, Steven ;
    Liu, Zhi
    2009-03-01 | BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs
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    Trade between the United States and East African countries (defined in this special report as Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) has grown ...
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    2023 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report to Congress
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    Hu, Patricia S. ;
    Schmitt, Rolf R.
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    2023-01-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Reports to Congress
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    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), ...
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    2022 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Supply-Chain Feature
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-01-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Reports to Congress
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    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), ...
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    2022 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Report and Dataset
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-01-01 | Port Performance Freight Statistics Program Annual Reports to Congress
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    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 Ameri...
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    Highlights of [the 2010 National Census of] Ferry Operators in the United States
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    Steve, Kenneth ;
    Parker, Julie
    2014-09-01 | National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO)
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    Ferries provide links for commuters in major metropolitan areas and offer a means of transportation across bodies of water not easily served by bridge...
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    Highlights of the 2008 National Census of Ferry Operators
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    Goldberg, Bruce ;
    Firestine, Theresa
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    2010-12-01 | National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO)
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    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...
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