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Coastwise Arrival

August 10, 2017

Coastwise Arrivals are voyages to a US port or place without passage outside the US or Canadian EEZs.

Table illustrating whether connections between each coastal region are overseas or coastwise.
A fully crossed table that shows whether transits between two coastal regions are considered ‘overseas’ or ‘coastwise’.
Map showing that coastwise arrivals DID NOT require transiting across the combined US and Canadian EEZs.
Map illustrating that coastwise arrivals are defined as transits from Last Ports of Call to the Arrival Port that DID NOT cross the combined US and Canadian EEZs. The abbreviations correspond to the following coastal regions: Alaska (AK), East (E), Gulf of Mexico (GM), West (W), Caribbean (CA), Hawaii (HI), Great Lakes (GL), Canadian East (CE), Canadian West (CW), Canadian Great Lakes (CGL), and Canadian North (CN).
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