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

Includes weekly data on the number of grain barges unloaded for export at grain elevators located in the New Orleans region, between Baton Rouge and Myrtle Grove.

This line chart shows weekly grain barge tonnages by lock over the past few years. Use the filters to narrow down to specific grains, locks, or date ranges.

This chart shows quarterly transportation rates for shipping wheat from Kansas and North Dakota through the PNW to Japan for the last 10 years

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.

This chart shows the latest weekly barge tariff rates at selected locations. Use filters to change date range and location.

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

The agricultural industry relies on the U.S. inland waterways navigation system to ship grains from production States to domestic destinations and export markets. Via the Mississippi River System, barges deliver roughly 90 percent of the grain exported from the Mississippi Gulf port region. USDA collects the following two datasets on barged grain volumes from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Lock Performance Monitoring System (LPMS) and Waterborne Commerce Statistics (WCS) data. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) also collects and reports barge freight rates every week. This dashboard collates a variety of important barge performance indices that will be updated as new data is available based on WCS and LPMS data. Each visualization provides a link to its underlying processed data. Another hyperlink from the processed data allows users the access to the raw datasets.

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

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