---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 553"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "553"
heading: "Freight statistics"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/553"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §553. Freight statistics


In the collection of statistics relating to traffic, the Corps of Engineers is directed to adopt a uniform system of classification for freight, and upon rivers or inland waterways to collate ton-mileage statistics as far as practicable.


## Source credit

(July 25, 1912, ch. 253, § 1, 37 Stat. 223.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from part of section 1 of act July 25, 1912, popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1912”.