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Port Performance Freight Statistics Program

Friday, November 22, 2024

The Port Performance Freight Statistics Program provides nationally consistent performance measures on capacity and throughput for the Nation’s largest tonnage, container, and dry bulk ports.

 

Import, Export, and Domestic Cargo by Port, Coast, and Commodity

This dashboard explores imports, exports, and domestic tonnage at the U.S. top 150 ports.  It includes commodity type.

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This dashboard compares the Top 150 Ports from 2018-2022.  Tonnage can be disaggregated by coast, port, imports, exports, domestic, and year.  Commodity type is not included.

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Annual Report

The Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Annual Reports to Congress provide summary statistics and detailed analysis for the Nation’s largest container, tonnage, and dry bulk ports.

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Annual Report: Web Edition

The Port Performance Freight Statistics Program web edition provides access to port data visualizations and detailed analysis for the Nation’s largest container, tonnage, and dry bulk ports.

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Port Profiles - Statistics on the Top 25 U.S. Ports

The Port Profiles provide interactive capacity and throughput data for the Nation’s largest container, tonnage, and dry bulk ports. 

How-to-Video: Port Profiles

Monthly TEUs by Port - Statistics on the number of TEUs imported and exported at the Top 10 U.S. Container Ports

Monthly data is available from Jan 2019 through Present.

Top 10 Container Ports Monthly TEUs Dashboard 

Containerized Imports and Exports at U.S. Ports

Provides the amount of containerized imports and  exports by port, the top containerized commodities by coast, and the top non-durable containerized commodities by coast. 

Data is from 2023.

Containerized Imports at U.S. Ports

Containerized Exports at U.S. Ports

Vessel Time at Berth

Port-level monthly statistics on the amount of time vessels spend at berth.  Vessel categories are containerships, tankers, and ro-ros.

Vessel Time at Berth Dashboard


Port-related Statistics from the Freight Analysis Framework

Maritime Imports and Exports by Coast
 

Goods Movement Within the U.S. Supply Chain: Commodity Profiles

Motor Vehicles and Vehicle Parts Profile

 

Port-related Data Spotlight Articles

U.S. Trade and the Impact of Low Water Levels in Gatun Lake and the Panama Canal: February 14, 2024

Low Water on the Mississippi Slows Critical Freight Flows: November 16, 2022

Tropical Storm Elsa Makes Landfall in Florida; BTS Map Shows U.S. Ports Affected by 2020 Named Storms: October 27, 2021

Suez Canal Blockage by Ever Given Will Affect U.S. Ports, Businesses, Consumers: April 1, 2021

I-40 Bridge Failure Causes Multimodal Challenges: May 17, 2021

Resumed Trade with China and Consumer Activity in Late Quarters Leaves Top U.S. Container Ports with Solid 2020: March 11, 2021


Additional Data Sources

USA Trade Online (https://usatrade.census.gov) of the US Census Bureau provides data for exports and imports at the port and state level and by commodity.  Measures include vessel total export/import value ($US), containerized vessel total export/import value ($US), vessel total export/import SWT (kg), and containerized vessel total export/import SWT (kg).  Shipment origin and destination country are also provided.  Data is available from 2003 through one month ago and is updated monthly.  Note, port boundaries applied by this source may differ from other sources used within the BTS Port Performance and Freight Statistics Program.