Federal Maritime Commission

Ocean shipping regulation on a $15.4 million award book

FMC’s public docket is carrier agreements, detention-and-demurrage disputes, and related oversight of liner shipping. None of those case counts are in this packet. $15,442,543.55 is what the Commission obligated on federal awards through FY2026—IT, facilities, expert services, and other instruments tagged to CGAC 065. A year with more cargo on the water does not automatically raise this total. A systems contract can raise it while TEU volumes fall.

Sixty-five awards against $15.4 million implies about $237,578 per award. That mid mean on a small count fits a thin independent regulator. The packet has no median and no split between headquarters support and field work.

Freight rates are not in the 65 rows

Spot rates, charter rates, and port congestion indices are market data. They are not USAspending awards. Mixing a freight index with $15,442,543.55 would treat a Commission invoice as if it were the price of moving a box. This page stays on awarding-agency obligations.

Commissioner and staff salaries generally never appear as awards. The $15.4 million understates the FMC’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an award ledger.

Questions

How much has the Federal Maritime Commission obligated?

USAspending.gov shows $15,442,543.55 in FMC obligations through FY2026 across 65 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 065 is the filter. The total is not container volume and not ocean freight rates. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 065 is the source for the current 65-award book.

What is the average FMC award?

Dividing $15,442,543.55 by 65 awards yields about $237,578. The packet has no median. IT, facilities, and expert-service instruments share the same mean. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 065?

065 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Federal Maritime Commission. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/065/. MARAD, Coast Guard, and CBP use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Does $15.4 million include port infrastructure grants?

Not as a DOT or MARAD awarding-agency total. Those programs sit under other CGACs. This page reports only FMC’s $15,442,543.55 on 65 awards through FY2026. Outlays are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.