Port Performance Freight Statistics Program
Monday, April 28, 2025
The Port Performance Freight Statistics Program provides nationally consistent performance measures on capacity and throughput for the Nation’s seaports.
- Imports by Country and U.S. Port - Provides the shipping weight (short tons) of imports from the top 10 countries for imports, Jan 2018- Feb 2025. Data can be filtered by port, state, country of origin, and month and year.
- TEUs by Port - Provides the number of TEUs by traffic direction and full/empty status for the Top 10 U.S. Container Ports. Data can be filtered by month and port. Data is Jan 2019 - Feb 2025.
- Containerized Commodity Imports by Port and Coast Data is 2023.
- Containerized Commodity Exports by Port and Coast Data is 2023.
- Tonnage by Port - Data can be filtered by coast, port, commodity type, and traffic direction. Includes the top 150 U.S. ports. Data is 2022.
- Port Profiles - Provides a dashboard with statistics for each port and includes a downloadable .pdf fact sheet for each port. Data is 2018 - 2022.
- Berthing Time by Port and Vessel Type Data is Jan - Oct 2024.
- Tanker Vessel Calls at U.S. Ports in 2025 First Quarter April 14, 2025
- 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
- USA Trade Online by the US Census Bureau. This source provides data for exports and imports by commodity type at the port and state level. 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, that port boundaries applied by this source may differ from other sources used within the BTS Port Performance and Freight Statistics Program.
- Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The FAF database has estimates of US freight flows. Data are available for states and metropolitan areas. Flows include all modes of transportation and 42 commodity types.
- Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center (WCSC) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). WCSC is responsible for capturing information on vessels, tonnage, commodity, origin, and destination from vessel operating companies. This data and information is intended to assist USACE’s navigation mission by providing statistics used to analyze the feasibility of new projects and to set priorities for new investments and for the operation, rehabilitation, and maintenance of existing projects.