USACE Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center

USACE Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center (WCSC) captures vessel, tonnage, commodity, origin and destination information from vessel operating companies, publishing it through Vessel Data, Ports and States Data, Navigation Infrastructure, Fact Cards, Commerce Data, Origin/Destination Data, Foreign Data, Container Traffic, downloadable Waterway Data, GIS products, U.S. Waterways Monthly Indicators and the U.S. Foreign Waterborne Transportation Statistics Program. WCSC says its users include government agencies, private industry, academia and the general public.

Coverage

U.S. ports and inland/coastal waterways; tonnage broken out by commodity, port and origin/destination at monthly-indicator and annual-statistics granularity. History depth and refresh delay beyond the published indicators are not stated on the checked page.

Verdict

This is a cargo-flow signal for how much tonnage, by commodity, moves through each US port and river system — useful for reading barge, grain, coal and petroleum flow trends next to BTS port-performance data. No separate data licence is stated on the checked page; Signal Lab links to WCSC's statistics pages rather than redistributing the downloads.