Federal Maritime Commission federal obligations through FY2026

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.

FY2026 cutoff

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $15,442,543.55 is cumulative through that horizon, not the Commission’s FY2026 appropriation alone. Multi-year IT awards remain in the running total until closed.

Outlays are unpublished. Treat the figure as commitments for awarding agency 065. Sixty-five awards means a single large modification is visible in the agency total in a way it would not be among thousands of grants.

CGAC 065 versus DOT maritime programs

Federal Maritime Commission rows use awarding-agency code 065. MARAD, the Coast Guard, and Customs and Border Protection are separate CGACs. Cargo-preference grants, icebreaking, and port-of-entry operations are not this Commission’s award book. SpendingVault’s /agencies/065/ path stays on the FMC. Code 065 is an identifier, not a bill of lading number.

State tables versus port geography

The state table for agency 065 attributes the 65 awards using USAspending location fields. That map is vendor and performance geography, not a ranking of U.S. ports by TEU. A large state share can be a headquarters contractor, not a claim that that state’s harbors generated more FMC filings.

Open the FMC agency page for the live $15,442,543.55 and 65-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 065. Dollar rank among independents is not a ranking of ocean-freight volume.

Container volumes versus 65 regulator awards

TEU counts and freight-rate indices are market data. They are not the 65 USAspending awards. A congested year at U.S. ports can leave $15,442,543.55 unchanged. A systems contract can move it while cargo volumes fall. Keep the market tape and the Commission’s award ledger separate.

MARAD port-infrastructure grants and Coast Guard operations sit under other awarding-agency codes. Those dollars are not inside the 65 rows. Mixing them with $15.4 million would treat the FMC as if it funded harbors. This page stays on CGAC 065.

Commissioner and staff salaries generally never appear among the 65 awards, so the table understates full operating cost. The state table for agency 065 is vendor geography, not a ranking of ports by TEU. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the FMC agency page for live tables. Outlays are unpublished. One large modification is visible in a 65-row book.

Detention-and-demurrage complaints and carrier-agreement filings are the FMC’s public docket. They are not the 65 awards. A busy complaint year can leave $15,442,543.55 unchanged. A systems contract can move it while filings fall. Keep the docket and the award ledger separate. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the FMC agency page for live CGAC 065 tables. Port-infrastructure grants remain other awarding agencies. The state table is vendor geography, not TEU rank.

Ocean common-carrier agreements are filed with the Commission. Those filings are not the 65 awards. A busy agreement year can leave $15,442,543.55 unchanged. An expert-witness vehicle can move it with no change in filings. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the FMC agency page for live CGAC 065 tables. Keep this book unmerged with MARAD or Coast Guard awarding agencies. The mean of about $237,578 is unsplit.

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.