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The Navigation Data Center maintains a database (Master Docks Plus) of over 40,000 port-and-waterway facilities and other navigation points of interest. The data describe the physical and inter-modal (infrastructure) characteristics of the coastal, Great Lakes, and inland ports of the United States. The data include, but are not limited to location (latitude/longitude, waterway, mile, and bank); operations (name, owner, operator, purpose, handling equipment, rates, and details of open-and-covered storage facilities); type and dimension of construction (length of berthing space for vessels and/or barges, depth, apron width, deck elevation, and details of rail-and-highway access); and utilities available (water, electricity, and fire protection).The port facilities database contains a national inventory which delineates the Nation's principal coastal, Great Lakes and inland port and waterway terminal and transfer facilities. The information is used to analyze the use and improvement of existing terminals and the planning and development of new ones. Primary users are Federal, state and municipal agencies; and port and waterway development authorities.Dataset was derived from the Master Docks Plus Public Extract database, which is a Microsoft Access database that contains a complete extract of the Navigation Data Center’s dock database with all data that may be released to the public. Database was downloaded on February 3, 2012, the last update of the Master Docks Plus Public Extract was 1/25/2012 1:31:15 PM. |