Shipment-level US import bill-of-lading corpus

Name: Shipment-level US import bill-of-lading corpus (site-stated 102M decoded B/L records, 87M US import shipments) cross-linked to 6.3M importer profiles, 2.3M vessel records and 20.5K ports, enriched with importer website/phone/email and minutes-fresh satellite AIS vessel positions
Creator: BoatDB (boatdb.net)

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Shipment-level US import bill-of-lading corpus (site-stated 102M decoded B/L records, 87M US import shipments) cross-linked to 6.3M importer profiles, 2.3M vessel records and 20.5K ports, enriched with importer website/phone/email and minutes-fresh satellite AIS vessel positions

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Coverage

Universe, instruments and categories.

Industry: Shipping
Instruments: equities
Categories: AlternativeSupply ChainGeospatial

Dataset card

Type: not stated
Format: Tabular relational records (shipment, party, vessel, port tables) plus geospatial AIS position streams; CSV export and a full data API are offered
Volume: 102M bill-of-lading records decoded; 87M US import shipments searchable; 6.3M importer profiles; 2.3M-2.4M vessel and supplier entities; 20.5K ports (all site-stated counts)
Users: Est. 5K-50K registered free accounts (inferred from free-account tiering on the screening product: 10 vessels per batch free vs 200 on Pro, plus port/terminal claim flow — no public user count disclosed)
History: 7 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active — sampled records carry arrivals dated into 2026, and feature launches (bulk OFAC/OFSI screening, Slack and email alerts, claimable port dashboards) are recent
Launched: Est. 2022-2024 (no founding statement or pre-2022 press/archive footprint surfaced; modern hosting stack with Vercel/Cloudflare/Google infrastructure named in the privacy policy points to a recent build)
Delivery: not stated
Entity mapping: not stated
Sample: not stated
Point-in-time: not stated
Licence: not stated

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