System Atlas

Coastal and Great Lakes Freight Transportation

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing water transportation of cargo in coastal waters, on the Great Lakes System, or deep seas between ports of the United States, Puerto Rico, and United States island possessions or protectorates. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Transportation & logistics schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.

Baseline
Transportation & logistics v2
Inherited from
Transportation & logistics
Companies mapped
0 of 0
Primitives
56 in 8 parts
Last updated
Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 483113
Establishments
483
Employees
17,775
Annual payroll
$2.2B
Payroll per employee
$122K
Establishments by number of employees
  • 1-4224
  • 5-972
  • 10-1952
  • 20-4954
  • 50-9933
  • 100-24933
  • 250-49911
  • 500-9993

Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.

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