Highlights of Top 25 Freight Gateways by Shipment Value
This section presents gateway-specific tables and brief highlights of key transportation data for U.S. international merchandise freight passing through the gateways into and out of the United States.
For land gateways the report presents data on:
the value of imports and exports
the weight of imports
the mode of transportation
top origin and destination states
annual incoming truck and rail containers 1999-2003
annual land trade value 1999-2003
trend in annual incoming trucks, 1994-2003
trend in monthly incoming trucks, 2001-2003
For air gateways the report presents data on:
the value and weight of imports and exports
origin and destination country and city
air cargo tonnage 1999-2003
top carriers to and from the airports
trend in annual air tonnage, 1994-2003
trend in monthly air tonnage, 2001-2003
For water gateways the report presents data on:
the value and weight of imports and exports
containerized cargo imports and exports
origin and destination country and seaport
port calls by vessel type and capacity
trend in annual maritime tonnage, 1997-2003
trend in monthly maritime tonnage, 2002-2003
The report presents the freight gateways according to their ranking by value of shipments in 2003, as listed in table 2. The companion CD to this report, Gateway Resource CD, provides more detailed information on these 25 gateways and also covers over 200 additional freight gateways.