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Petroleum Oil Spills Impacting Navigable U.S. Waterways Dont believe the hype. We are getting cleaner as an industry. In less than 15 years, the number of total spills and incidents has nearly halved, and in terms of the tankship and tank barge sectors, spills and related barrels per spill have dropped dramatically. As a percentage of barrels spilled, for example, tank vessels now account for less than 10 percent of all spills in U.S. waters, down from more than a 50 percent share just 15 years ago. In terms of total incidents, tank vessels now account for about 4 percent of total incidents, one half of what it was in 1985. Those metrics continue to improve every day. All statistics in this report re? ect information obtained via the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Transporta- tions Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Access the maritime database on their site by visiting: http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/data_and_statistics/index.html Table 2 19601965197019751980198519901995200020052010 TOTAL freight1,1001,2731,5321,6951,9991,7882,1642,2402,4252,5282,334 Foreign 3394445817499217741,0421,1471,3551,4991,441 Imports 2112703394775184136006739401,097883 Exports 128174242272404362442475415402558 Domestic 7618299519461,0771,0141,1221,0931,0701,029893 Inland291370472504535535623620628624566 Coastal 209202238232330310299267227214164 Great Lakes 155154157129115921101161149681 Intraport 104103817894748683959078 Intraterritory 11234357655 Table 3 198519901995200020052009SourceSpillsBbls.SpillsBbls.SpillsBbls.SpillsBbls.SpillsBbls.SpillsBbls. All spills 6169 200863 8177 188453 9038 62815 8354 34080 3881 236347 3304 5038 Vessels 1662 115784 2485 152075 5478 38670 5560 24611 1,835 50591 1645 3016 Tankship 164 17438 249 118506 148 2988 111 14480 37 71 28 343 Barge 385 87704 457 23620 353 26237 229 3180 126 47780 98 105 Other 1113 10642 1779 9950 4977 9446 5220 6951 1672 2739 1519 2567 Nonvessels 2802 77386 2584 33535 1116 22815 1645 8899 1146 185039 979 1292 Mystery 1705 7693 3108 2842 2444 1330 1149 571 900 717 680 730 BY THE NUMBERSJuly 201310 MNMN July2013 Layout 1-17.indd 106/27/2013 12:58:13 PM