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USA Import & Export Maritime Bills of Lading. Transactional Level Detail (Vessels, Ports, Shippers, Consignees, Volumes, Commodity Details).
Industry Domain:

Maritime & Trade
Publisher:

IHS Markit
Content Type:

Structured
Access/Delivery Methods:

REST, Python, S3 Proxy, SQL
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Data Set
Dataset Name | Dataset Description | Data Format | Publishing Frequency |
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FOIA Restricted List | USCBP FOIA Restricted company list. This list contains the names of firms and individuals that have petitioned the US Gov't to redact their name on the Bill of Lading documents. | Parquet | Daily |
BOL PTY CMD Joined | PIERS Standard combination of Bill of Lading Details - combination of the elements from the Bill of Lading, Party and Commodity Fact tables that are also available for individual usage within this Data Lake package. | Parquet | Daily |
Commodity | Bill of Lading Cargo Details - Raw and Enriched Cargo details, Volumes and Measures. CMD is on the many side of a one-to-many relationship with the BOL table. A bill can have multiple enriched commodities associated with it. | Parquet | Daily |
BOL PTY CNTR Joined | PIERS Secondary combination of Bill of Lading Details - combination of the elements from the Bill of Lading, Party and Container Fact tables that are also available for individual usage within this Data Lake package. | Parquet | Daily |
Party | Bill of Lading Party Details - Contains Shipper, Consignee, Notify and AlsoNotify party details, both in an enriched and raw format. Additionally includes information on companies we have matched to equities (as well some equity details), NVOCCs and OTIs as well. | Parquet | Daily |
Container | Bill of Lading Container Details - Container numbers, sizes, types and other available container information. Container is on the many sid eof a one-to-many relationship with the BOL table. A bill can have multiple containers associated with it. | Parquet | Daily |
Bill of Lading | Bill of Lading (BOL) is the core primary fact table for the PIERS US dataset. This particular table contains details shipment details such as Vessel, Ports, Carriers, but also provides linkages to shipper/consignee and commodity details, which are separate datasets within the Bill of Lading package. | Parquet | Daily |

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