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Inland Water Freight Transportation

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing inland water transportation of cargo on lakes, rivers, or intracoastal waterways (except on the Great Lakes System). 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
Mapped on the schema
0 of 0 placed here
Primitives
56 in 8 parts
Last updated
Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 483211
Establishments
393
Employees
17,758
Annual payroll
$1.7B
Payroll per employee
$96.4K
Establishments by number of employees
  • 1-4223
  • 5-952
  • 10-1932
  • 1000+3
  • 20-4930
  • 50-9916
  • 100-24922
  • 250-49910
  • 500-9995

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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