Deep Sea Freight Transportation federal obligations in Virginia

Deep sea freight and Virginia as a pair

Deep Sea Freight Transportation as the NAICS industry, Virginia as place of performance: 188 records summing to $798,728,060.35. An award in this industry coded outside VA is out. An award in Virginia from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Virginia. Virginia place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Norfolk, Arlington, Richmond, or a Pentagon-adjacent ZIP.

188 awards is a thin industry cell. A small row count can still sum to a large obligation total when individual instruments are large. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 188 as 188 unique establishments. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for deep sea freight transportation in Virginia. Virginia federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 483111 is the industry book without a VA filter. Virginia industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $4,248,554 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. On a thin file the mean is sensitive to a handful of large rows. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not “cause” $798,728,060.35 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 483111 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 483111 × VA only.

Ocean freight coding, not a cargo census

$798,728,060.35 does not measure tons of cargo moved, TEUs shipped, or voyages completed. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 483111 covers deep sea freight transportation: ocean freight of cargo as coded on the award. It is not a tonnage or container-count series and not a census of ships in service. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 483111 and a VA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 188 awards as a census of tons of cargo. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Virginia federal spending or the national NAICS 483111 table matched $798,728,060.35 and 188, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

Virginia statewide, not a local map

Place of performance VA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Virginia. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains VA. Contractor address is not this filter.

Virginia place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Norfolk, Arlington, Richmond, or a Pentagon-adjacent ZIP. This packet does not split $798,728,060.35 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 188 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $798,728,060.35 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 188-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $798,728,060.35. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Deep sea freight in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Deep Sea Freight Transportation (NAICS 483111) obligated $798,728,060.35 on 188 awards coded to Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as tons of cargo moved, TEUs shipped, or voyages completed.

Prefer the ties page for deep sea freight transportation in Virginia if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Virginia federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to VA. NAICS 483111 is the industry parent without the VA filter. Virginia industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $798,728,060.35.

A usable footnote names Deep Sea Freight Transportation, Virginia, NAICS 483111, $798,728,060.35, and 188. The compact headline $799M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $4,248,554 is $798,728,060.35 divided by 188. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for deep sea freight transportation in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $798,728,060.35 across 188 awards with NAICS 483111 and a Virginia place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of tons of cargo. Keep both keys when quoting $798,728,060.35.

Does this total measure tons of cargo shipped?

No. The packet publishes $798,728,060.35 and 188 awards for NAICS 483111 inside VA coding. Tons of cargo moved, teus shipped, or voyages completed are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Virginia file have 188 awards?

That is the award-record count for 483111 × VA. Combined with $798,728,060.35, the average is about $4,248,554. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 188 is not unique tons of cargo. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

Virginia federal spending and NAICS 483111 are the parents, not addends. Virginia industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $798,728,060.35. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.