This data shows the weekly cost of transporting grain in each mode; truck, rail, barge and ocean-going vessels.

Bar chart of inspections destination volumes broken out by US origin port, using the latest week of inspections data.

This dataset contains the annual volumes of major commodities transported by barge, measured in ton-miles. The data is from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Waterborne Commerce Statistics.

Line chart showing monthly averages of railcar bids in the secondary auction market, broken out by year to provide a seasonal perspective on rates. Filterable by date, railroad, and train type.

This data set contains rail tariff rates for DDGS by railroad, and train type, for select origin/destination pairs. These data are collected monthly from individual railroad websites.

This data set contains rail tariff rates for ethanol by railroad, and train type, for select origin/destination pairs. These data are collected monthly from individual railroad websites.

Bulk vessel size and capacity in million deadweight tonnages. This data contains bulk vessel fleet in numbers and deadweight tons capacity, per year and by type of vessels.

The container vessel fleet dataset provides the number and capacity of the global container vessel fleet as provided and collected by Drewry, Drewry’s Shipping Insight

The data represents total U.S. grain movements involving barge, rail and truck by commodity and market type; starting from 1984.

Weekly "cars held" data from the Surface Transportation Board's (STB) Rail Service Metrics. As part of their submission to the STB, railroads provide data on the average daily number of loaded and empty cars, operating in normal movement and billed to an origin or destination, which have not moved in more than 48 hours. The data is broken out by service type: intermodal, grain, coal, crude oil, automotive, ethanol, fertilizer, or all other. In order to derive the daily averages for the reporting week, carriers are requested to run a same-time snapshot each day of the reporting week, capturing cars within each category that have not moved in 48 hours or more. The number of cars captured on the daily snapshot for each category should be added, and then divided by the number of days in the reporting week (typically seven days). In deriving this data, carriers should include cars in normal service anywhere on their system, but should not include cars placed at a customer facility; in constructive placement; placed for interchange to another carrier; in bad order status; in storage; or operating in railroad service (e.g., ballast).

Fertilizer is defined by the following 14 Standard Transportation Commodity Codes (STCCs): 2871236, 2871235, 2871238, 2819454, 2812534, 2818426, 2819815, 2818170, 2871315, 2818142, 2818146, 2871244, 2819173, and 2871451. STCC 287 covers agricultural chemicals and STCC 281 covers industrial inorganic or organic chemicals (excluding pesticides).