Vessel Calls Snapshot, 2011
This snapshot contains data on calls by oceangoing vessels of 10,000 deadweight (DWT) or greater at United States ports. Vessel capacities are expressed in terms of deadweight tons for all vessel types, twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU’s) for containerships and cubic meters (CM) for gas carriers. In 2011, 7,836 oceangoing vessels made 68,036 calls at U.S. ports. Vessel calls were up 7.9 percent from five years earlier, but 13.6 percent from the year before. The recovery was spread over all of the major vessel types. Of the 2011 calls, 35 percent were by tankers, 32.5 percent were by containerships, 16.1 percent were by dry bulk vessels, 9.1 percent were by Roll-On/Roll-Off (Ro-Ro) vessels, and 5.9 percent were by general cargo ships. In 2011, 98 percent of the tanker calls were by double-hull tankers, up from 83.7 percent five years earlier.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Released: March 2013; Revised: November 2013.
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Corporate Authors:
Maritime Administration
Office of Policy and Plans
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590 -
Authors:
- Olsen, Ryan
- Perkins, Gail
- Byington, Russel
- Hsieh, Jon
- Publication Date: 2013-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Edition: Revised
- Features: Figures; Photos; Tables;
- Pagination: 24p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Cargo ships; Containerships; Ports; Ships; Tankers; Vehicle capacity
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Terminals and Facilities; I70: Traffic and Transport;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01502019
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: Dec 23 2013 7:53AM