This file contains monthly grain and fertilizer barge movements for selected locks on Mississippi River, Ohio River, Illinois River, Arkansas River, and Columbia River.

Line chart showing weekly grain barge tonnages by commodity over the past few years. Use the filters to select grain, lock, or date range.

This chart shows the latest weekly number of upbound empty barge movements. Use filters to select direction of traffic, date range, and lock.

This data contains information of annual commodity grain movement (in volume) by origins, destination States., and commodity types.

This dataset summarizes the annual internal barge traffic on the U.S. waterways system by using the Waterborne Commerce Statistics Data. Tonnages are provided by commodity, month, and year.

The dataset is updated once a year.

Definition of the "internal" traffic: Vessel movements (origin and destination) which take place solely on inland waterways. An inland waterway is one geographically located within the boundaries of the contiguous 48 states or within the boundaries of the State of Alaska.
The term "internal traffic" is also applied to these vessel movements: those which involve carriage on both inland waterways and the Great Lakes; those occurring between offshore areas and inland waterways (e.g., oil rig supplies and fish); and those taking place within Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound, and the San Francisco Bay, which are considered internal bodies of water rather than arms of the ocean.

Visit U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center for more information (https://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/About/Technical-Centers/WCSC-Waterborne-Commerce-Statistics-Center-2/)

This file contains records of all the empty barges for the selected Rivers and locks. The data is from the US Army Corps of Engineers, Lock Performance Monitoring System.

This dataset contains numbers of monthly empty barge movements including the following five rivers: Mississippi River (3 locks), Illinois River (2 locks), Ohio River (2 locks), Arkansas River (2 locks), and Columbia River (2 locks). Both upbound and downbound traffics are included.

USDA/AMS also published a weekly empty barge dataset for Mississippi River, Illinois River, and Ohio River titled "Upbound and Downbound Loaded and Empty Barge Movements (Count)", which contains data for one lock in each river. Users can find the dataset using this link: https://internal.agtransport.usda.gov/Barge/Upbound-and-Downbound-Loaded-and-Empty-Barge-Movem/w6ip-grsn

This dataset contains US waterborne movements by commodity in terms of thousand tons and annual shares since 2001.

This chart shows Illinois River monthly empty barge movements. Lock 7 data is available from February 2021. Use filters to change date range, direction of traffic, lock, or to specify the year and month.

Line chart showing weekly tonnages of grain barge movements transited through Mississippi River Lock 27, Ohio River Lock 52, and Arkansas River Lock 1. Each line represents a recent year, providing a comparison of barge tonnages to the same time in previous years. Use the filters to narrow down to specific locks or commodities.

This chart shows Mississippi River monthly fertilizer movements by locks. Use filters to change date range, direction of traffic, lock, or to specify the year and month.