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Table 1-53: Value, Tons, and Ton-Miles of Freight Shipments within the United States by Domestic Establishments, 2007

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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 14.7 0.1 8.8 0.1 3.9 0.1 1,672 725
02 Cereal grains 109.7 0.9 673.0 5.2 280.4 8.0 163 153
03 Other agricultural products 157.6 1.3 271.5 2.1 121.5 3.5 581 374
04 Animal feed and products of animal origin (NEC) 82.4 0.7 231.5 1.8 70.6 2.0 356 383
05 Meat, fish, seafood, and their preparations 258.6 2.2 90.2 0.7 44.2 1.3 2,866 243
06 Grain, alcohol and tobacco products 137.4 1.2 115.3 0.9 50.3 1.4 1,191 262
07 Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils 489.8 4.1 462.0 3.5 159.9 4.6 1,060 230
08 Alcoholic beverages 156.8 1.3 116.8 0.9 33.2 1.0 1,342 87
09 Tobacco products 81.2 0.7 3.4 0.0 0.6 0.0 24,035 414
10 Monumental or building stone 5.1 0.0 36.4 0.3 3.4 0.1 141 168
11 Natural sands 6.5 0.1 484.5 3.7 33.3 1.0 13 53
12 Gravel and crushed stone 18.5 0.2 1,885.2 14.5 132.7 3.8 10 39
13 Nonmetallic minerals (NEC) 17.7 0.1 257.2 2.0 51.1 1.5 69 280
14 Metallic ores and concentrates 21.1 0.2 93.7 0.7 51.5 1.5 225 454
15 Coal 33.4 0.3 1,234.6 9.5 722.3 20.7 27 115
17 Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel 793.7 6.7 1,135.4 8.7 129.9 3.7 699 61
18 Fuel oils 402.6 3.4 692.8 5.3 65.6 1.9 581 32
19 Coal and petroleum products (NEC) 298.4 2.5 847.6 6.5 206.4 5.9 352 83
20 Basic chemicals 253.2 2.1 408.2 3.1 148.3 4.2 620 400
21 Pharmaceutical products 778.4 6.6 22.1 0.2 10.6 0.3 35,249 690
22 Fertilizers 41.9 0.4 136.8 1.1 52.1 1.5 306 162
23 Chemical products and preparations (NEC) 344.1 2.9 128.5 1.0 62.1 1.8 2,677 611
24 Plastics and rubber 488.1 4.1 183.3 1.4 102.7 2.9 2,664 521
25 Logs and other wood in the rough 7.1 0.1 104.5 0.8 11.0 0.3 68 114
26 Wood products 218.0 1.8 413.8 3.2 134.1 3.8 527 290
27 Pulp, newsprint, paper, and paperboard 128.7 1.1 144.7 1.1 80.4 2.3 889 250
28 Paper or paperboard articles 117.9 1.0 81.7 0.6 29.7 0.9 1,443 392
29 Printed products 209.9 1.8 56.6 0.4 24.7 0.7 3,709 546
30 Textiles, leather, and articles of textiles or leather 466.2 3.9 45.0 0.3 28.6 0.8 10,370 1,039
31 Nonmetallic mineral products 201.1 1.7 1,182.6 9.1 123.3 3.5 170 383
32 Base metal in primary or semifinished forms and in finished basic shapes 479.6 4.1 397.3 3.1 148.6 4.3 1,207 322
33 Articles of base metal 380.8 3.2 131.2 1.0 57.4 1.6 2,903 524
34 Machinery 631.4 5.3 69.8 0.5 37.6 1.1 9,049 460
35 Electronic and other electrical equipment and components and office equipment 1,040.6 8.8 45.7 0.4 29.6 0.8 22,752 765
36 Motorized and other vehicles (including parts) 828.4 7.0 129.2 1.0 59.8 1.7 6,412 366
37 Transportation equipment (NEC) 138.4 1.2 5.4 0.0 3.7 0.1 25,501 889
38 Precision instruments and apparatus 289.6 2.4 5.1 0.0 4.0 0.1 56,457 967
39 Furniture, mattresses and mattress supports, lamps, lighting fittings, and illuminated signs 158.4 1.3 28.0 0.2 16.4 0.5 5,662 826
40 Miscellaneous manufactured products 507.7 4.3 130.1 1.0 43.2 1.2 3,904 972
41 Waste and scrap 57.6 0.5 212.7 1.6 61.5 1.8 271 196
43 Mixed freight 974.6 8.2 313.1 2.4 60.5 1.7 3,113 388
99 Commodity unknown U U U U 0.2 0.01 U 1,157
  All commodities a 11,831.5 99.96 13,016.6 99.99 3,490.8 100.00 909 580

KEY: NEC = not elsewhere classified; SCTG = Standard Classification of Transportation Goods; U = data are unavailable.

a Estimates exclude shipments of crude petroleum (SCTG 16).
b Ton-miles estimates are based on estimated distances traveled along a modeled transportation network.

NOTES:
Data are preliminary.
Details may not add to totals due to missing numbers that do not meet publication standards because of high sampling variability or poor response quality.

SOURCE:
U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 2007 Commodity Flow Survey: United States, Preliminary Release (Washington, DC: December 2008), table 6, available at http://www.bts.gov/publications/commodity_flow_survey/ as of June 22, 2009.



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