Thursday, February 4, 2010
Correction to Feb. 3 Cargo Business Newswire story on top U.S. container import ports
On February 3rd, 2009, Zepol Corporation released a report profiling the top 50 containerized import ports for the United States for 2009. This report is based from data collected from U.S. Customs on a daily basis from the Automated Manifest System. Because of this collection method, some data will show imports into a particular port which were actually trans-shipments.
This is particularly prominent for the ports of Tacoma and Seattle as imports to and exports from Prince Rupert and Vancouver are often recorded as imports for the United States as part of the collection method. Therefore, the port of entry for some imports reported will in reality be a Canadian port.
This recording method leads to an overstatement of imports for the ports of Seattle and Tacoma. In addition, some of the consignees and carriers listed will be transporting containers through Canadian ports rather than Seattle and Tacoma.
As stated in the report, this data represents the information as it is recorded by U.S. Customs. It does include TEU quantities from empty containers, may overstate totals from transshipments, and may include other data anomalies. Zepol has posted a revision of the report with this additional information regarding Seattle and Tacoma included on www.zepol.com.
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