The U.S. Waterway System TRANSPORTATION FACTS & INFORMATION

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1 The U.S. Waterway System TRANSPORTATION FACTS & INFORMATION Navigation and Civil Works Decision Support Center U.S. Army Corps of Engineers November 2013

2 U.S. Waterborne Traffic by Major Commodities in 2012 (Millions of Short Tons 1 and Change from 2011) Domestic Coastwise Lakewise Internal Total Commodities 2 Tons % Tons % Tons % Tons % Total Coal Coal Coke ** 0.0 ** Crude Petroleum ** Petroleum Products Chemical and Related Prod ** Forest Prod., Wood & Chips ** Pulp and Waste Paper ** ** ** 0.0 ** ** Sand, Gravel and Stone Iron Ore and Scrap Non-Ferrous Ores & Scrap ** Sulphur, Clay and Salt ** Primary Manuf. Goods Food and Farm Products All Manuf. Equipment ** Waste and Scrap, NEC ** ** Foreign Grand Inbound Outbound Total Total Commodities 2 Tons % Tons % Tons % Tons % Total , , Coal Coal Coke Crude Petroleum ** Petroleum Products Chemical and Related Prod Forest Prod., Wood & Chips Pulp and Waste Paper Sand, Gravel and Stone Iron Ore and Scrap Non-Ferrous Ores & Scrap Sulphur, Clay and Salt Primary Manuf. Goods Food and Farm Products All Manuf. Equipment Waste and Scrap, NEC ** 0.0 ** 0.0 ** ** denotes tonnage less than 50,000 tons or extreme percent change. 2. Commodity abbreviations: Prod. (Products); Sand, Gravel and Stone also includes Soil and Rock; Manuf. (Manufactured); and NEC (Not Elsewhere Classified). 3. Column totals are greater than row sums because of excluded commodity groups. Row totals are greater than column sums because intraport and intra-territory are not included. 2

3 Geographic Distribution of U.S. Waterborne Activities in 2012 Coastal 1 Great Lakes Inland 2 Total 3 Number of Ports Handling Over 250,000 Short Tons Domestic Traffic Short Tons (millions) Ton-miles (billions) Average Haul (miles) 1, Foreign Traffic 4 Short Tons (millions) 1, N/A 1,421.9 Ton-miles (billions) N/A Average Haul (miles) N/A All deep draft (over 12 feet) except Great Lakes and the Columbia River. 2. N/A denotes tonnage not applicable. 3. Domestic Total includes local traffic of 81.0 million short tons, 1.3 billion ton-miles, 15.7 miles average haul and intra-territory traffic of 2.3 million short tons. Ton-miles are not compiled for intra-territory traffic. Total may not equal column sum due to rounding. 4. Ton-miles and Average Haul for Coastal ports are based on the distance transported on U.S. waterways from entrance channels to ports and waterways; and for Great Lakes ports are based on the distance transported on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River to the International Boundary at St. Regis, Quebec, Canada. Corps Dredging Facts Corps and contractor owned dredges removed million cubic yards (mcy) of material from Corps constructed and maintained channels in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 (1 October to 30 September) at a cost of $1,220.1 million. This was a 4.3% increase in cubic yards and 7.6 % decrease in cost when compared to FY 2011 values. In FY 2012, maintenance dredging accounted for 84.0% of the quantity dredged, an additional 6.6% of the total yardage was attributed to PL HSW (Hurricane Supplemental Work) dredging. New construction (channel deepening) 9.2% and 0.3% accounted for PL ARRA MAINTENANCE DREDGING. The average cost/cy for maintenance work dredging decreased 15.6% to $3.99, the average cost/cy for new work dredging decreased 5.5% to $16.60 when compared to 2011 values. Private dredging contractors removed 79.7% (189.2mcy) of the material dredged and contract dredging activities accounted for 87.5% ($1,067.7 million) of the total FY 2012 Corps dredging expenditures. In FY 2012, 70 private dredging companies submitted a total of 360 bids for 138 contracts. Awards were made to 48 different companies, 20 large and 28 small and emerging businesses. Large and small companies received 91 (65.9%) and 47 (34.0%) of the contracts respectively. The Cutterhead pipeline dredge was the most widely used dredge in FY 2012 receiving 59.4% of the contracts, removing 52.4% of the contracted quantity and earning 56.9% of the contract dollars. Hopper dredges removed 37.2% of the quantity and earned 23.6% of the contract dollars. Mechanical dredges removed 10.2% of the quantity, earning 19.3% of the contract dollars. The remaining dredging was performed by a combination of more than one type of dredge. The District that awarded the most contract dollars in FY2012 was New Orleans with $216.4 million. New Orleans District also had contracts dredging the most cubic yards (69.9 mcy). Visit the NDC website for additional 3

4 Geographic Distribution of U.S. Waterway Facilities Region Cargo-Handling Docks 1 Locks 2 Foreign 3 Foreign & Domestic Only Domestic Only Total Sites Chambers Atlantic ,190 1, Gulf ,554 2, Inland ,930 1, Great Lakes Pacific ,078 1, Total 76 1,984 6,154 8, Based on new database covering expanded geographic area beginning in Locks that are active Corps-operated locks, including 5 control structures. 3. U.S. docks that load or unload vessels operating in foreign trade. 4. Includes Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. 5. Mississippi, Ohio, Upper Atchafalaya, Ouachita, Illinois, Black Warrior, Tombigbee, Alabama-Coosa River Basins. Lock Facts The Corps owns and operates 239 lock chambers at 193 sites. Of the 193 lock sites, 39 have multichambered locks. Thirty-four have two chambers, four have three chambers and one has five. There are 143 lock chambers in operation that are over 50 years old with the average age of all locks being 60 years. Many of the lock sites serving navigation include multi-purpose dams. For example, 46 lockassociated dams currently produce hydropower. The combined lift of all Corps locks is 6,791 feet with the John Day Lock on the Columbia River, OR with the highest lift at 113 feet. In Fiscal Year (FY) 13, the most cargo moved was through the Ohio River Lock #52 with 81 million tons. In Calendar Year 2012 the locks were available for navigation and recreation over 1,940,432 hours with only 158,945 hours of downtime, an availability rate of 92.4%. Unscheduled downtimes were less that 2.0% of the total available lock hours. Waterborne Commerce Facts The top five U.S. ports ranked by dollar value of foreign traffic for (CY) 2012 were: Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY and NJ; Houston, TX; Long Beach, CA; and Savannah, GA. In 2012, 13.7% of all U.S. waterborne commerce by weight was containerized (2.4% of domestic and 20.8% of foreign). The U.S. port exporting the largest volume of coal in 2012 was the Consolidated Port of Hampton Roads with 48.4 million short tons, up19.8% from The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation reported 31.4 million metric tons (34.6 million short tons) moving on the Montreal-Lake Ontario section of the St. Lawrence Seaway for calendar year 2012, a 9.3% increase from The Port of South Louisiana was up 2.3% in 2012, registering the leading total among U.S. ports with million tons. Tonnage on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) was million tons in 2012, up from million tons last year. Visit the WCSC website at for more Waterborne Commerce Statistics. 4

5 Leading U.S. Ports in 2012 (Millions of Short Tons and Percent Change 1 from 2011) Domestic Foreign Total 2 Rank Type 3 Port Tons % Tons % Tons % 1 C South Louisiana, LA, Port of C Houston, TX C New York, NY and NJ C New Orleans, LA C Beaumont, TX C Long Beach, CA C Corpus Christi, TX C Los Angeles, CA C Baton Rouge, LA C Plaquemines, LA, Port of C Texas City, TX C Mobile, AL C Lake Charles, LA I Huntington - Tristate C Norfolk Harbor, VA C Baltimore, MD I Pittsburgh, PA I St. Louis, MO and IL L Duluth-Superior, MN and WI C Savannah, GA C Pascagoula, MS C Tampa, FL C Port Arthur, TX C Newport News, VA C Philadelphia, PA C Valdez, AK ** C Portland, OR C Tacoma, WA C Seattle, WA C Richmond, CA C Freeport, TX C Port Everglades, FL C Charleston, SC C Oakland, CA C Paulsboro, NJ L Chicago, IL C Boston, MA L Two Harbors, MN C Jacksonville, FL C Honolulu, HI I Memphis, TN L Indiana Harbor, IN L Detroit, MI C Portland, ME C Longview, WA C Anacortes, WA C Galveston, TX C Matagorda Port Lv Pt Com, TX C Kalama, WA L Cleveland, OH Continued on the next panel

6 Leading U.S. Ports in 2012 continued (Millions of Short Tons and Percent Change 1 from 2011) Domestic Foreign Total 2 Rank Type 3 Port Tons % Tons % Tons % 51 I Cincinnati, OH C San Juan, PR C New Castle, DE C Barbers Point, Oahu, HI L Toledo, OH L Gary, IN L Burns Waterway Harbor, IN C New Haven, CT L Presque Isle, MI C Albany, NY C Providence, RI C Miami, FL L St. Clair, MI C Wilmington, NC L Stoneport, MI C Camden-Gloucester, NJ I Louisville, KY C Vancouver, WA C Brownsville, TX L Silver Bay, MN I Mount Vernon, IN C Wilmington, DE I St. Paul, MN L Calcite, MI C Kahului, Maui, HI L Port Inland, MI L Ashtabula, OH C Victoria, TX C Marcus Hook, PA L Conneaut, OH C Nikishka, AK C Stockton, CA C Port Manatee, FL L Escanaba, MI L Port Dolomite, MI C Morehead City, NC C Port Canaveral, FL I Greenville, MS C Penn Manor, PA L Sandusky, OH C Anchorage, AK C Kivilina, AK C Brunswick, GA I Tulsa, Port of Catoosa, OK I Vicksburg, MS I Chattanooga, TN L Alpena, MI C Terrebonne, LA, Port of C Portsmouth, NH L Marblehead, OH **Denotes extreme percent change. 2. Total may not equal column sum due to rounding. 3. Type code depicts the location of the port as Coastal (C), Great Lakes (L), or Inland (I). 6

7 Domestic Traffic for Selected U.S. Inland Waterways in 2012 (Millions of Short Tons, Billions of Ton-miles 1 and Change from 2011) Trip 2 Length Tons Ton-miles Ton-miles Waterway (miles) 2012 % 2012 % 2012 % Atlantic Coast Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, VA-FL Intracoastal Wtwy, Jacksonville to Miami, FL ** ** Gulf Coast Bayou Teche, LA ** Black Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, AL Chocolate Bayou, TX ** Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, TX-FL 1, GIWW: Morgan City-Port Allen, LA Petit Anse, Tigre, Carlin bayous, LA ** Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, AL and MS Mississippi River System Allegheny River, PA ** Atchafalaya River, LA Big Sandy River, KY and WV ** Cumberland River, KY and TN Green and Barren rivers, KY Illinois Waterway, IL J. Bennett Johnston Waterway, LA Kanawha River, WV McClellan-Kerr Arkansas R. Nav. Sys., AR/OK Mississippi River Mpls, MN to Mouth of Passes 1, Minneapolis, MN to Mouth of Missouri R Mouth of Missouri R. to Mouth of Ohio R Mouth of Ohio River to Baton Rouge, LA Baton Rouge to New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA to Mouth of Passes Missouri R. (MO, KS, NE and IA) to Sioux City, IA ** Monongahela River, PA and WV Ohio River, PA, WV, OH, KY, IN, and IL Ouachita and Black Rivers, AR and LA Tennessee River, TN, KY, MS and AL Pacific Coast Columbia River System, OR, WA, and ID Columbia R. and Willamette R. below Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR Vancouver, WA to The Dalles, OR The Dalles Dam to McNary Lock and Dam Above McNary L & D to Kennewick, WA Snake River (WA and ID) to Lewiston, ID Willamette River above Portland, OR ** ** ** ** denotes ton-miles of less than 50 million. 2. Internal and intraport tons times total distance from origin to destination. 3. Includes coastwise entrance channel miles for tons and ton-miles but not for trip ton-miles. 7

8 U.S. Waterborne Traffic by State in (Millions of Short Tons and Change from 2011) Domestic Foreign Total 2 Rank State Tons % Tons % Tons % 1 Louisiana Texas California New Jersey Washington Illinois Kentucky Florida Ohio Virginia Pennsylvania Alabama Indiana West Virginia Michigan Mississippi Maryland Minnesota Alaska New York Georgia Tennessee Missouri Wisconsin Oregon Hawaii South Carolina Puerto Rico Massachusetts Arkansas Delaware Maine North Carolina Connecticut Iowa Rhode Island Oklahoma Virgin Islands New Hampshire Idaho Guam Kansas Pacific Islands District of Columbia Includes shipments, receipts and intrastate commerce. 2. Total may not equal column sum due to rounding. 8

9 U.S. Flag Vessels as of December 31, Age 2 Vessel Type Number < = >25 Vessel (total) 3 40,530 8,558 4,268 6,789 4,349 2,470 13,892 Self-Propelled (total) 8, ,584 Dry Cargo Tanker Pushboat 2, ,114 Tugboat 2, ,736 Passenger Offshore Supply 1, Barge (total) 31,550 7,555 3,624 5,995 3,886 2,006 8,282 Dry Covered 10,536 2, ,145 1, ,311 Dry Open 8,869 1,206 1,469 1,545 1,405 1,196 2,029 Lash/Seabee Deck 7,296 2, ,327 Other Dry Cargo Single Hull Tank Double Hull Tank 3, ,071 Other Tank Survey date as of December 31, 2012; includes updates through October 31, Age (in years) is based upon the year the vessel was built or rebuilt, using calendar year 2012 as the base year. 3. Total is greater than sum because of 53 unclassified vessels and 204 vessels of unknown age; figures include vessels available for operation. 4. Includes passenger, excursion/sightseeing. 5. Includes dry cargo barges that may be open or covered, railroad car, pontoon, RO-RO, container, or convertible. 6. Includes tank barges that may be double sided only or double bottom only. U.S. Waterborne Container Traffic by Region in 2012 (Loaded and Empty in Thousands of TEU's 1 ) Domestic 2 Foreign Total Region Loaded Empty Loaded Empty Loaded Empty Total 3 Inbound 2, ,269 N/A 19,321 N/A Outbound 2, ,864 N/A 13,916 N/A Atlantic Inbound ,135 N/A 7,816 N/A Outbound ,544 N/A 6,223 N/A Gulf Inbound N/A 956 N/A Outbound ,279 N/A 1,289 N/A Pacific Inbound 1, ,185 N/A 10,549 N/A Outbound 1, ,040 N/A 6,404 N/A 1. TEU = Twenty Foot Equivalent Units. Foreign empties not included. 2. A domestic container is counted as an inbound and outbound movement. 3. Total includes less than 371 loaded TEU's for the Great Lakes. 9

10 Ports and Waterways Facts Inland waterways conveying barges connect Fairmont, WV, and facilities handling cargo at nearby Morgantown, WV, with the New Orleans area and the Gulf of Mexico via 2,087 statute miles of channels through the Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Barge berths at Catoosa, OK, near Tulsa, are accessed from the Gulf via 1,067 statute miles of inland waterways through the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (Verdigris and Arkansas Rivers, Arkansas Post Canal, and White River Entrance Channel) and Mississippi River. The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway carries barge traffic 1,036 statute miles from Saint George Sound, between Carrabelle and Apalachicola, FL, to Port Isabel Channel, between Port Isabel and Brownsville, TX. It links together shallow-draft channels from western Florida to southern Texas and crosses numerous deep-draft channels, including those in Panama City and Pensacola, FL, Mobile Bay, AL, Pascagoula and Gulfport, MS, Mississippi River at New Orleans, Lake Charles, LA, and Sabine River, Galveston Bay, Houston Ship Channel, Freeport Harbor, Matagorda Ship Channel, Corpus Christi Bay, and Brownsville Harbor, TX. On the Pacific coast, barge docks on the Clearwater River at Lewiston, ID ship cargo 466 statute miles to the Pacific Ocean down the Snake and Columbia Rivers. The channel in the Columbia River portion of the Columbia-Snake River system is deep enough for ocean-going traffic for 145 statute miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Bonneville Lock. Waterways are operated by the Corps as multi-purpose, multi-objective projects. They not only serve commercial navigation, but in many cases also provide hydropower, flood protection, municipal water supply, agricultural irrigation, recreation, and regional development. For more ports and waterways facilities data and information, visit the NDC website at Trust Fund Facts The Inland Waterways Trust Fund earned $75.6 million in Fiscal Year (FY) This included $75.2 million paid by the inland marine towing industry and $0.043 million interest. The Trust Fund disbursed $94.6 million for construction projects leaving an available balance of $33.8 million for new construction obligations. The FY 2013 Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund equity increased by $807.0 million to $7.76 billion from $6.95 billion in FY Total receipts and interest increased by $109.1 million to $1.7 billion in FY This included taxes from domestic commerce of $122.8 million and taxes collected from imports of $1,139.8 million. All transfers totaled $889.0 million; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received $855.2 million, a decrease of $21.8 million from $877.0 million in FY Vessel Facts There were 1,267 domestic vessels constructed in 2012, which is an increase of 0.3% from 1,262 that were constructed in The number of double hull tank barges has increased from 3,359 in 2010 to 3,461 in 2012, a 3.0% increase. The number of domestic tankers has slightly increased from 63 in 2011 to 66 in 2012 with 25 tankers over 25 years of age. The Waterborne Transportation Lines of the U.S., which includes an inventory of vessel companies and their American flag vessels operating in the transportation of freight and passengers, is available on the NDC website at 10

11 Mississippi River and Tributaries - Lock Contact Information (Phone Numbers) Allegheny (Bill Young) Atchafalaya Old River Berwick Black Rock Black Rock Warrior-Tombigbee-Mobile Coffeeville Demopolis Selden Oliver Holt Bankhead Calcasieu River Calc. Barrier Cumberland Barkley Cheatham Old Hickory Cordell Hull Freshwater Bayou Frshwtr Bayou GIWW-all Bayou Boeuf Leland Bowman Calcasieu Algiers Inr Hrbr Nav Can Bayou Sorrel Port Allen Colorado E & W Brazos E & W Harvey Illinois LaGrange Peoria Starved Rock Marseilles Dresden Brandon Road Lockport O'Brien Kanawha Winfield Marmet London Kaskaskia Kaskaskia McClellan-Kerr Chouteau Newt Graham Montgomery Pt Norrell Joe Hardin Emmet Sanders Col Maynard David D. Terry Murray Toad Suck Ferry Arthur Ormond Dardanelle Ozark (J Taylor) James Trimble W.D. Mayo Robert S. Kerr Webbers Falls Monongahela Braddock Maxwell Gray's Landing Point Marion Morgantown Hildebrand Opekiska Ohio Emsworth Dashields Montgomery New Cmbrlnd Pike Island Hannibal Willow Island Belleville Racine Robert C. Byrd Greenup Capt. Meldahl Markland McAlpine Cannelton Newburgh John T. Myers Smithland Ouachita-Black 11 Columbia Lock Felsenthal H.K. Thatcher Jonesville Red River LC Boggs John Overton Russell B. Long Joe Waggonner Tenn-Clinch Melton Hill Kentucky Pickwick Wilson Gen. Wheeler Guntersville Nickajack Chickamauga Watts Bar Fort Loudoun Upr Mississippi Upr St. Anthony Lwr St. Anthony A Mel Price Visit the NDC web site at for Key Lock Report, Summary of Lock Statistics, Lock Contact Information, and Lock Characteristics

12 For Further Information This fact card provides an overview of information about U.S. ports and waterways for the latest complete statistical year. Statistics are produced by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Navigation and Civil Works Decision Support Center (NDC), formerly the Navigation Data Center. Domestic data are collected by NDC. U.S. foreign tonnage and vessel movements are derived from data provided by the Port Import Export Reporting Service (JOC Group Inc.), the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the U. S. Bureau of the Census. Contact one of the following sites for information on NDC s products and services: Web Site: Access for up-to-date statistics: NDC: Lock infrastructure data; lock performance; dredging statistics; and information on Inland Waterway and Harbor Maintenance Trust Funds. Navigation and Civil Works Decision Support Center U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 7701 Telegraph Road Alexandria, VA , Fax [email protected] Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center: Commercial movements of U.S. foreign and domestic cargo and vessels; U.S. vessel and vessel operator statistics; port, waterways, and dock infrastructure data; and water transportation summary materials. Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, USACE PO Box New Orleans, LA , ; FAX [email protected] User feedback is essential for USACE to meet current needs. Provide comments to Director, Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, P.O. Box 61280, New Orleans, LA or [email protected]. 12