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

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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 7.4 0.1 6.1 0.1 1.6 0.1 1,211 530
02 Cereal grains 53.8 0.6 561.1 4.8 264.2 8.4 96 138
03 Other agricultural products 129.5 1.5 259.2 2.2 109.4 3.5 500 481
04 Animal feed and products of animal origin (NEC) 52.1 0.6 228.0 2.0 51.2 1.6 229 167
05 Meat, fish, seafood, and their preparations 201.3 2.4 84.5 0.7 41.4 1.3 2,382 162
06 Milled grain products, preparations, and bakery products 113.4 1.4 109.3 0.9 49.0 1.6 1,037 189
07 Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils 355.6 4.2 448.9 3.8 161.6 5.1 792 179
08 Alcoholic beverages 109.0 1.3 89.4 0.8 25.7 0.8 1,219 55
09 Tobacco products 69.9 0.8 4.4 0.0 1.0 0.0 15,988 334
10 Monumental or building stone 3.0 0.0 22.5 0.2 1.6 0.1 135 170
11 Natural sands 3.6 0.0 473.0 4.1 30.0 1.0 8 45
12 Gravel and crushed stone 12.9 0.2 1,866.5 16.0 105.8 3.4 7 30
13 Nonmetallic minerals (NEC) 10.1 0.1 184.6 1.6 56.6 1.8 55 185
14 Metallic ores and concentrates 14.0 0.2 98.3 0.8 63.0 2.0 143 474
15 Coal 22.9 0.3 1,239.9 10.6 686.3 21.9 18 120
17 Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel 279.4 3.3 1,063.6 9.1 117.2 3.7 263 52
18 Fuel oils 116.1 1.4 549.0 4.7 55.5 1.8 212 32
19 Coal and petroleum products (NEC) 82.1 1.0 448.0 3.8 93.0 3.0 183 102
20 Basic chemicals 153.7 1.8 347.7 3.0 116.0 3.7 442 417
21 Pharmaceutical products 479.1 5.7 24.3 0.2 11.3 0.4 19,741 693
22 Fertilizers 34.0 0.4 264.3 2.3 87.6 2.8 129 157
23 Chemical products and preparations (NEC) 226.6 2.7 106.0 0.9 53.7 1.7 2,138 385
24 Plastics and rubber 325.7 3.9 140.0 1.2 80.8 2.6 2,327 424
25 Logs and other wood in the rough 5.8 0.1 S S 7.8 0.2 S S
26 Wood products 158.6 1.9 345.9 3.0 120.2 3.8 458 242
27 Pulp, newsprint, paper, and paperboard 102.5 1.2 137.1 1.2 78.2 2.5 748 206
28 Paper or paperboard articles 103.7 1.2 69.2 0.6 23.4 0.7 1,499 282
29 Printed products 134.5 1.6 34.0 0.3 17.0 0.5 3,953 816
30 Textiles, leather, and articles of textiles or leather 466.4 5.6 51.2 0.4 31.8 1.0 9,104 940
31 Nonmetallic mineral products 150.0 1.8 968.0 8.3 135.9 4.3 155 357
32 Base metal in primary or semifinished forms and in finished basic shapes 259.8 3.1 328.1 2.8 121.3 3.9 792 270
33 Articles of base metal 234.6 2.8 116.4 1.0 42.7 1.4 2,014 392
34 Machinery 484.2 5.8 63.4 0.5 34.5 1.1 7,638 377
35 Electronic and other electrical equipment and components and office equipment 890.8 10.6 49.6 0.4 30.3 1.0 17,963 713
36 Motorized and other vehicles (including parts) 748.6 8.9 133.1 1.1 59.0 1.9 5,624 395
37 Transportation equipment (NEC) 155.0 1.8 18.4 0.2 10.6 0.3 8,447 1,074
38 Precision instruments and apparatus 225.1 2.7 18.4 0.2 3.9 0.1 12,264 922
39 Furniture, mattresses and mattress supports, lamps, lighting fittings, and illuminated signs 139.7 1.7 32.5 0.3 13.7 0.4 4,293 515
40 Miscellaneous manufactured products 387.4 4.6 79.2 0.7 34.5 1.1 4,891 995
41 Waste and scrap 37.9 0.5 217.2 1.9 48.0 1.5 174 166
43 Mixed freight 840.3 10.0 299.9 2.6 52.8 1.7 2,802 329
  Commodity unknown 17.2 0.2 24.3 0.2 8.9 0.3 710 485
  All commodities a 8,397.2 100.0 11,667.9 100.0 3,137.9 100.0 720 589

KEY: NEC = not elsewhere classified; R = revised; SCTG = Standard Classification of Transportation Goods; S = data are not published due to high sampling variability or some other problem.

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

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 (Washington, DC: December 2004), table 5a.