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Vessel entrances and clearances for all U.S. Customs Ports

• Standardized U.S. dock facilities database to U.S. Customs
• Customs analyst selects a dock “pick-list“
• Research new dock facilities
• Assign tonnage down to the dock level
• Validate vessel entrance and clearance dates
• Validate vessel ICST (International Classification of Ships) codes
• Cross-validate vessel draft with port (or waterway) draft

Integrate Port Import Export Reporting Service and U.S. Census Bureau datasets into one dataset

• Validate commodity codes for all cargo records
• Correct significant weight (kilos) errors by examining vessel tonnage capacities
• Perform cross-validation of PIERS and Census trade datasets down to the foreign vessel level
• Validate TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) for containerized cargo records
• Combine validated trade data into a single complementary trade dataset

Foreign transportation dataset is “matched” to the integrated foreign trade dataset

• Criteria include U.S. Customs district and port codes, vessel entrance/clearance dates, vessel manifest numbers, vessel names and IMO (International Maritime Organization) numbers
• “match rate” is over 95%