This Transportation Research Record contains 10 papers on the subject of inland waterways, ports and shipping. Specific topics discussed include lock performance, spatial demand decisions in the Pacific Northwest, E-Transport River Information Services, hub-and-spoke networks in container-on-barge transport, modeling shipper response to waterway lock closures, optimization of handling equipment in a container terminal, national port planning, a parametric rolling event on a container vessel, the impact of temporary seaport closures on freight supply chain costs, and the ecological footprint of ports as an indicator of sustainability.