Major Ports

The Principal Port file contains United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) port codes, geographic locations (longitude, latitude), names, and commodity tonnage summaries (total tons, domestic, foreign, imports and exports) for Principal USACE Ports. This feature set was extracted from the national data set by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. The data source is https://data-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/major-ports. The Major Ports data set is as of October 18, 2021 and is from the USACE, and part of the United States Department of Transportation/Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ National Transportation Atlas Database. The Major Ports are politically defined by port limits or Corps projects, excluding non-Corps projects not authorized for publication. The determination for the published Major/Principal Ports is based upon the total tonnage for the port for the particular year; therefore the top 150 list can vary from year to year. These data show Major Ports in 2018. The Principal Port data set contains USACE port codes, geographic locations (longitude, latitude), names, and commodity tonnage summaries (total tons, domestic, foreign, imports and exports) for Principal USACE Ports.