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Transport Canada Fluidity Indicator Program

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Transport Canada collects and publishes data on transit time and relability as well as port performance indicators.

Port Utilization Indicators

Monthly Intermodal Indicators (5 partner ports)

Average Truck Turnaround Time [Min.] Berth...

Port of Oakland Performance Metrics Initiative

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Oakland's Port Efficiency Task Force has identified selected performance metrics of interest to customers and stakeholders:

Truck wait-time outside terminal gates (street time) Truck turn-time within the marine terminal On-time vessel arrival...

Available Port Performance Metrics

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U.S. Port Examples

Port of Charleston – selected metrics Port of Virginia – selected metrics Port of Oakland – performance metrics initiative

Foreign Examples

Transport Canada Gateways & Trade Corridors...

Key Questions

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Key questions

How do we choose useful, fair, and consistent port metrics? How do we address the diversity of port types and operations? How to we use the opportunity to provide insight and tell the port industry story?

Dry Bulk Goods

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Metals & Ores

bauxite/alumina coals iron ore ferroalloys scrap metal Taconite

Chemicals

petroleum coke fertilizer phosphates plastic pellets resin powder synthetic fiber

...

Over to You

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Other data sets we should be considering? Is there consensus on “what is a port”? Is there consensus on a definition of what is included for each category? Tonnage Containers Dry Bulk

Data Sources

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There is no one data source that provides all the answers

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterborne Commerce Statistics - Customs Districts U.S. Census Bureau USA Trade Online - Census Districts Coast Guard...

Picking the Ports Revisited

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With so many factors, perhaps best not to reinvent the wheel and instead use an existing list:

Based on nationally consistent source Data in the public domain or a Federal source Potentially port level detail