NAICS 483111 deep sea freight transportation contract obligations

Ocean freight as a tagged contract service

NAICS 483111 covers deep sea freight transportation. Contracting officers use it when the principal purpose is moving cargo by ocean, not building ships and not advising on supply chains. Shipyard construction and logistics consulting have other codes and other hubs. The $12,533,317,127.20 on this page is the freight-transportation tag.

Five thousand four hundred sixty-two awards produced that sum. The mean of about $2.3 million can represent a voyage-sized action, a longer sealift vehicle, or a mix of both. The packet does not list routes, tonnage, or vessel names. Those fields, if USAspending stored them, appear on award descriptions on the industry page.

Chartered passenger air transportation and trucking are different NAICS families. A multimodal contract will carry one principal NAICS. If that principal tag is 483111, the whole action’s obligations sit in this $12.5 billion even if some inland haul was incidental.

Transportation NAICS codes follow mode: ocean freight, air charter, trucking, and others. Deep sea freight transportation (483111) is the ocean-cargo tag at $12,533,317,127.20 on 5,462 awards. Nonscheduled chartered passenger air (481211) is a passenger-air tag. Logistics consulting (541614) is advice. Those pages are not this $12.5 billion.

Obligations on transportation vehicles

Freight contracts often use indefinite-delivery vehicles. An agency can obligate a large amount against a sealift contract while actual sailings — and cash outlays — depend on task orders. Treating $12.5 billion as money already paid for completed voyages would overstate cash and understate unused capacity.

The 5,462-award count is not a voyage count. Multiple sailings can sit inside one award; one sailing can be one award. Dividing dollars by awards does not yield a freight rate per ton.

What this code does not include

Port construction, ship manufacturing, and deep-sea passenger transportation are other NAICS codes. Logistics consulting (541614) is a professional-services tag, not a carrier tag. Those pages are not subsets of $12,533,317,127.20.

Humanitarian assistance that moves cargo as a grant to a non-federal recipient often has no NAICS. Those dollars do not enter this industry total even when the cargo travels by sea.

Sealift and ocean cargo can be tagged 483111 or another transportation NAICS depending on principal purpose. This hub does not reconstruct a Defense or civilian sealift budget. It reports the tagged contract slice and points to the industry table for agency fields the packet omits.

How to use the 483111 table

Rank deep sea freight on the all-industries index to see its dollar order among transportation codes. Open the industry page for award-level recipient and agency columns. Keep the two packet facts in view: $12.5 billion obligated and 5,462 awards.

This guide does not add tonnage or route maps because those measures are not in the facts object. Inventing them would break the packet contract.

Tagging and extract limits

Officers may tag mixed transportation under 483111 or under another carrier code. SpendingVault reports the tagged sum, not a reconstructed cargo ledger.

When USAspending revises transportation actions, $12,533,317,127.20 and 5,462 will move with the source.

Reading freight dollars without inventing tonnage

No tonnage, TEU, or route field appears in the packet facts, so this guide does not invent one. The usable coordinates are $12.5 billion obligated and 5,462 awards, about $2.3 million per award on average.

Rank ocean-freight against other transportation codes on the all-industries index. Open the deep sea freight transportation industry page for descriptions. Assistance that moves cargo as a grant typically lacks NAICS and stays outside the total. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on open vehicles.

Ocean freight at $12,533,317,127.20 on 5,462 awards is a carrier-service book. The mean of about $2.3 million is not a rate per ton and not a voyage price. No tonnage field appears in the facts, so this guide does not invent one.

Shipbuilding, logistics consulting, and passenger-air charter are other NAICS classes. This page stays on deep sea freight transportation tagged 483111. Open the industry page for descriptions. Cite USAspending.gov contract awards. Assistance that moves cargo as a grant typically lacks NAICS and stays outside the $12.5 billion.

Questions

How much has the government obligated for deep sea freight?

Contracts tagged NAICS 483111 show $12,533,317,127.20 in obligations across 5,462 awards in the USAspending aggregate SpendingVault indexes. That is a freight-transportation contract tag, not shipbuilding and not logistics consulting. The total is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without NAICS is excluded.

Is NAICS 483111 the same as military sealift spending?

Only the actions tagged 483111 are in this $12.5 billion. Sealift or ocean cargo tagged to another NAICS code sits on another hub. This packet does not name agencies or programs. The industry page is the place to see awarding-agency fields USAspending provides.

What is the average deep sea freight award?

Dividing $12,533,317,127.20 by 5,462 awards yields about $2.3 million. That mean is not a per-voyage freight rate and not a per-ton rate. The packet has no tonnage or sailing count. Award-level amounts are on the industry page. The industry page lists award-level amounts; this packet has no tonnage or sailing count to convert the mean into a freight rate.

Do ocean shipping grants appear in this total?

Usually no. The industry aggregate is built from USAspending contract awards that carry NAICS 483111. Assistance instruments often omit NAICS and therefore do not enter $12.5 billion. Program and recipient pages are the better surface for grant-funded cargo movement. If ocean cargo was funded as a grant, look at program pages rather than this contract-industry hub.