Port Performance Freight Statistics Working Group
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Port Performance Metrics:
What nationally consistent measures do you recommend for Capacity and Throughput?
September 23,2016
General
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201
During the Break Out Groups…
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Do you concur with the methodology used to develop the three port lists? But first a look at the Army Corps of Engineers Waterborne Commerce Statistics data used to generate the listsDry Bulk Ports
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Port Millions of Short Tons Port of South Louisiana, LA 151.64 New Orleans, LA 47.48 Port of Plaquemines, LA 40.31 Ports of Cincinnati-...Ports by Tonnage
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Port Millions of Short Tons Port of South Louisiana, LA 259 Houston, TX 241 New York, NY and NJ 127 New Orleans, LA 88...Ports by TEUs
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Port Millions of TEUs Los Angeles, CA 5.53 Long Beach, CA 5.3 New York, NY & NJ 4.61...
Port List Methodology
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Units of Measurement
TEUs Total Tonnage (short tons, excludes weight of containers) Dry Bulk Tons based on custom queries (short tons) Based on Vessel Type International Classification of Ships by Type (ICST...Port List Methodology
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Port Definitions
Port level where possible Ports based on the U.S. Army Corp’s definition of a port area port limits defined by legislative enactments of state, county, or city governments Cincinnati-Northern KY,...Port List Methodology
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Data Source
Army Corp of Engineers’ Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center Provides consistency across all three lists Publically available Domestic tonnage based off of operator reports Foreign tonnages built...Feedback from the First Working Group Meeting
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Organization of Ports
Group by geography Categorize by volume handled Classify by functionFeedback from the First Working Group Meeting
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Port Selection
Focus on the top 25 ports in specified categories to be consistent with the FAST Act Consider a minimum activity level as a cut off Use the list of ports identified in the National Multimodal Freight Network process as a minimum...