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Table 1-53: Value, Tons, and Ton-Miles of Freight Shipments within the United States by Domestic Establishments, 2002P

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SCTG Value ($billions) Percent Tons (millions) Percent Ton-milesb (billions) Percent Value per ton ($) Average miles per shipment
01 Live animals and live fish 7.2 0.1 6.5 0.1 2.0 0.1 1,099 534
02 Cereal grains 55.9 0.7 578.6 5.0 263.7 8.2 97 125
03 Other agricultural products 129.9 1.5 277.5 2.4 122.1 3.8 468 477
04 Animal feed and products of animal origin (NEC) 55.3 0.7 240.0 2.1 77.5 2.4 230 141
05 Meat, fish, seafood, and their preparations 204.9 2.4 85.0 0.7 41.8 1.3 2,410 192
06 Milled grain products, preparations, and bakery products 119.7 1.4 116.0 1.0 51.4 1.6 1,032 265
07 Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils 362.3 4.3 463.4 4.0 171.2 5.3 782 206
08 Alcoholic beverages 115.8 1.4 93.7 0.8 25.6 0.8 1,236 56
09 Tobacco products 77.2 0.9 5.8 0.1 1.3 0.0 13,320 414
10 Monumental or building stone 2.5 0.0 16.9 0.1 1.3 0.0 145 170
11 Natural sands 4.6 0.1 466.3 4.0 34.0 1.1 10 57
12 Gravel and crushed stone 12.6 0.1 1,775.2 15.3 104.6 3.3 7 33
13 Nonmetallic minerals (NEC) 12.7 0.1 186.3 1.6 57.0 1.8 68 214
14 Metallic ores and concentrates 15.7 0.2 116.1 1.0 59.4 1.9 136 465
15 Coal 24.1 0.3 1,255.1 10.8 562.5 17.6 19 112
17 Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel 233.6 2.8 840.4 7.3 130.2 4.1 278 103
18 Fuel oils 109.6 1.3 507.5 4.4 108.9 3.4 216 81
19 Coal and petroleum products (NEC) 74.7 0.9 431.3 3.7 96.0 3.0 173 125
20 Basic chemicals 152.1 1.8 497.0 4.3 173.9 5.4 306 516
21 Pharmaceutical products 426.8 5.0 22.8 0.2 12.1 0.4 18,697 722
22 Fertitizers 34.1 0.4 214.2 1.9 74.4 2.3 159 150
23 Chemical products and preparations (NEC) 234.4 2.8 109.8 0.9 54.8 1.7 2,134 409
24 Plastics and rubber 343.4 4.0 147.0 1.3 83.9 2.6 2,335 430
25 Logs and other wood in the rough 5.2 0.1 86.3 0.7 8.9 0.3 60 108
26 Wood products 140.0 1.7 321.1 2.8 114.0 3.6 436 250
27 Pulp, newsprint, paper, and paperboard 102.4 1.2 139.9 1.2 82.6 2.6 732 233
28 Paper or paperboard articles 105.9 1.2 72.5 0.6 25.5 0.8 1,460 282
29 Printed products 136.9 1.6 34.4 0.3 17.4 0.5 3,977 903
30 Textiles, leather, and articles of textiles or leather 507.0 6.0 53.3 0.5 34.6 1.1 9,511 967
31 Nonmetallic mineral products 143.1 1.7 910.3 7.9 120.3 3.8 157 388
32 Base metal in primary or semifinished forms and in finished basic shapes 253.7 3.0 326.0 2.8 121.6 3.8 778 275
33 Articles of base metal 234.9 2.8 115.7 1.0 44.4 1.4 2,031 396
34 Machinery 509.5 6.0 62.9 0.5 34.7 1.1 8,094 413
35 Electronic and other electrical equipment and components and office equipment 948.0 11.2 53.8 0.5 32.9 1.0 17,625 747
36 Motorized and other vehicles (including parts) 735.7 8.7 133.7 1.2 59.1 1.8 5,504 401
37 Transportation equipment (NEC) 163.0 1.9 10.3 0.1 6.2 0.2 15,871 1,003
38 Precision instruments and apparatus 222.0 2.6 15.2 0.1 3.4 0.1 14,600 986
39 Furniture, mattresses and mattress supports, lamps, lighting fittings, and illuminated signs 135.0 1.6 30.9 0.3 13.3 0.4 4,373 564
40 Miscellaneous manufactured products 404.7 4.8 90.6 0.8 37.1 1.2 4,467 1,003
41 Waste and scrap 49.3 0.6 305.6 2.6 71.1 2.2 161 163
43 Mixed freight 858.3 10.1 332.2 2.9 57.8 1.8 2,584 434
  Commodity unknown 19.6 0.2 25.5 0.2 10.1 0.3 769 585
  All commodities a 8,483.1 100.0 11,572.8 100.0 3,204.4 100.0 733 589

KEY: NEC = not elsewhere classified; P = preliminary; SCTG = Standard Classification of Transportation Goods.

a Estimates exclude shipments of crude petroleum (SCTG 16).

b Ton-miles estimates are based on estimated distances traveled along a modeled transportation network.

NOTE

Estimates are preliminary and may be revised. Coverage for the 2002 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) differs from previous surveys due to a change from the 1987 Standard Industrial Classification system to the 1997 North American Industry Classification System and other survey improvements. Therefore, data users are urged to use caution when comparing 2002 CFS estimates with estimates from prior years.

SOURCE

U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 2002 Commodity Flow Survey: United States (Preliminary) (Washington, DC: December 2003), table 3a.