Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
Waterborne shipments from the U.S. Gulf Coast increased in April and May
What the source reported
Source-reportedWaterborne shipments of crude oil and petroleum products from the U.S. Gulf Coast (PADD 3) to the West Coast (PADD 5) more than quadrupled year-on-year in April and May following a waiver that permitted a broader group of ships to travel between U.S. ports. Shipments from the U.S. Gulf Coast to the East Coast (PADD 1) also increased.
- Publication
- EIA Today in Energy · Commodity/Energy Organisation
- Published
- 17th August 2026
- Original report
- eia.gov
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Global, US
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 17th August 2026 · 14:19
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Low (16.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (28.5/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (28.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth