• Barge Traffic


    Transportation / River Tonnage & Barge Traffic

    Traffic data for the Port of Pittsburgh comes from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center and its Lock Performance Monitoring System. Data about lock traffic is a good measure of lock activity, but is not as reliable or timely as a measure of actual tonnage; it’s reported only after a delay... More


  • River Tonnage


    Transportation / River Tonnage & Barge Traffic

    Traffic data for the Port of Pittsburgh comes from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center and its Lock Performance Monitoring System. Data in this instance are a port-to-port tonnage measurement and are reported annually here and elsewhere with a time lag between data gathering and publication delay of 1 1/2 to... More


  • River Tonnage Trend


    Transportation / River Tonnage & Barge Traffic

    Traffic data for the Port of Pittsburgh comes from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center and its Lock Performance Monitoring System. Data in this instance are a port-to-port tonnage measurement and are reported annually here and elsewhere with a time lag between data gathering and publication delay of 1 1/2 to... More