PIERS Shipping Information

This dataset provides quarterly commodity flows in the U.S. Waterborne Foreign Trade based on PIERS manifest data, most comprehensive statistics on global cargo movements transiting Seaports in the U.S. and Latin America. It is the only source of container movement data in TEU's (twenty equivalent units).

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
accrualPeriodicity R/P3M
agencyDataSeriesURL http://www.marad.dot.gov/library_landing_page/data_and_statistics/Data_and_Statistics.htm
agencyProgramURL http://www.marad.dot.gov/library_landing_page/data_and_statistics/Data_and_Statistics.htm
analysisUnit manifest
bureauCode {021:70}
catalog_@context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
catalog_@id https://data.transportation.gov/data.json
catalog_conformsTo https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
catalog_describedBy https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
categoryDesignation Administrative
collectionInstrument Transportation
collection_metadata true
dataQuality true
describedBy https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/docs/outreach/data-statistics/7091/dswaterbornetradecustomsdistrict2013.xls
describedByType application/vnd.ms-excel
identifier DOT-586
issued 2014-11-21
landingPage https://data.transportation.gov/d/mf9q-gix9
language {en-US}
license https://project-open-data.cio.gov/unknown-license/
modified 2019-05-01
phone 202-366-0308
programCode {021:047}
publisher Maritime Administration
references {http://www.marad.dot.gov/library_landing_page/data_and_statistics/Data_and_Statistics.htm}
resource-type Dataset
source_datajson_identifier true
source_hash 73cf507c1951865073d3122f12f7c630a6b090d6
source_schema_version 1.1
temporal R/2013-01-01/P3M
theme {Transportation}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • ckan
  • container
  • geo
  • geoss
  • national
  • north-america
  • port
  • trade
  • united-states
  • waterborne
isopen False
license_id other-license-specified
license_title other-license-specified
maintainer Jonathan Hsieh
maintainer_email Jonathan.Hsieh@dot.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T13:49:28.107901
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T13:49:28.107905
notes This dataset provides quarterly commodity flows in the U.S. Waterborne Foreign Trade based on PIERS manifest data, most comprehensive statistics on global cargo movements transiting Seaports in the U.S. and Latin America. It is the only source of container movement data in TEU's (twenty equivalent units).
num_resources 1
num_tags 12
title PIERS Shipping Information