Every US sea-import bill of lading since 2010 with shipper, consignee, HS codes, ports, carrier and container counts, updated daily.
Data product · Listing updated 11 Nov 2026
United States
About 2 days after vessel arrival
About 12 million shipments a year
Small and medium businesses, Mid-market, Enterprises
US CBP Automated Manifest System vessel manifest data
Daily licensed feed, parsed and entity-resolved
Daily US sea-import bills of lading sourced from US Customs and Border Protection vessel manifests, which are public under 19 CFR 103.31. Each record lists the shipper, consignee, notify party, product description, HS code, ports of lading and unlading, carrier, vessel, container count and weight. Shipper and consignee names are matched to Harborline's global entity ID, so one supplier appears as one company across spelling variants and years.
Coverage is ocean imports into the United States from 2010 onward, roughly 12 million bills of lading a year. Air manifests are not published in the US and are not included, and export manifests are not part of this file. Importers and shippers that requested confidential treatment appear as confidential rather than being dropped, so volume totals stay honest. Where the filer left the HS code blank it is inferred from the product description and flagged, and records arrive about two days after vessel arrival.
12 fields as documented by Harborline Trade Intelligence.
| Field | Type | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| bol_number | string | Bill of lading number | — |
| arrival_date | date | Estimated arrival date at the US port | — |
| shipper_name | string | Shipper as declared, or 'confidential' | — |
| consignee_name | string | Consignee as declared, or 'confidential' | — |
| entity_id | string | Harborline entity ID for the resolved consignee | — |
| hs_code | string | 6-digit HS code | — |
| hs_inferred | boolean | True when the HS code was inferred from the description | — |
| product_description | string | Cargo description as filed | — |
| port_of_lading | string | Foreign port where the cargo was loaded | — |
| port_of_unlading | string | US port where the cargo was discharged | — |
| container_count | integer | Number of containers on the bill | — |
| weight_kg | number | Gross weight in kilograms | — |
Real rows from the provider's sample file. Personal data is masked before anything is shown.
| arrival_datestring | shipper_namestring | consignee_namestring | hs_codestring | product_descriptionstring | port_of_ladingstring | port_of_unladingstring | container_countstring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | Ningbo Example Textiles Co. | Example Apparel Inc. | 620462 | Women's cotton trousers | Ningbo | Los Angeles | 3 |
| 2026-10-28 | Example Furniture Vietnam | Demo Home Goods LLC | 940360 | Wooden furniture | Cai Mep | Savannah | 5 |
| 2026-10-27 | Sample Steel Works | Demo Industrial Supply | 730890 | Steel structures | Busan | Houston | 2 |
Prices in USD, as published by Harborline Trade Intelligence
per month
per year
historical extract per HS chapter
Converted amounts use DataStoa display rates and are approximate. Harborline Trade Intelligence quotes the final price, taxes and terms.
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Time coverage: 2010 to present.
Provider-reported
Latency: About 2 days after vessel arrival
DataStoa has not audited these figures. Ask the provider how they are measured, or test them on a sample.
The licence is agreed directly between you and Harborline Trade Intelligence. This summary is provider-reported; the linked terms prevail.
Not listed: AI / ML model training, AI retrieval and grounding, redistribution allowed, marketing and outreach, research use. Ask Harborline Trade Intelligence if you need any of these.
Fields DataStoa asks every bill of lading data provider to declare.
Bill of lading and customs data for 60+ trade lanes
Harborline compiles sea-freight manifests and lawfully published customs records into clean, entity-resolved shipment data. Buyers use it to find suppliers, track competitors' sourcing and monitor supply-chain risk.
Also available on: Snowflake Marketplace, AWS Data Exchange
What buyers say about Harborline Trade Intelligence. Reviews cover the provider, not only this listing.
from 3 reviews
The shipper and consignee names were already matched across years, which made supplier mapping fast. Sample arrived the same day.
Marta K., Head of Sourcing, European apparel retailer
Shipments from filers who asked for confidentiality show up as confidential rather than silently disappearing, so our volume estimates by lane stayed honest. Support walked us through the entity IDs on a call and sent a mapping of our 400 tier-one suppliers within a week.
Hannah W., Supply chain risk manager, Industrial equipment manufacturer
We license both the US bill of lading feed and the Latin America customs file. The US data lands daily and the inferred HS codes were right on most of the lines we checked by hand. The Latin America file is monthly with a lag of about a month, and two countries arrived late in our first quarter, which their per-country notes had warned us about.
Diego R., Procurement analyst, Consumer electronics importer