Table 5-5a
Top Canadian Domestic Freight Area Pairs by Mode: 1996
(Thousands of metric tons)
| Mode of transportation | Total |
|---|---|
| Air | |
| N | N |
| Pipeline | |
| N | N |
| Rail | |
| N | N |
| Road | |
| Hamilton, Ont. to Toronto, Ont. | 2,716 |
| Toronto, Ont. to Montréal, Que. | 2,061 |
| Montréal, Que. to Toronto, Ont. | 1,623 |
| Toronto, Ont. to Hamilton, Ont. | 964 |
| Montréal, Que. to Québec, Que. | 919 |
| Water transport | |
| Sept-Îles/Pte-Noire, Que. to Hamilton, Ont. | 3,294 |
| Havre-St-Pierre, Que. to Sorel, Que. | 2,447 |
| Port-Cartier, Que. to Hamilton, Ont. | 2,065 |
| Colborne, Ont. to Clarkson, Ont. | 1,824 |
| Fraser River, B.C. to East Coast | |
| Vancouver Island, B.C. | 1,625 |
| Intermodal | |
| N | N |
KEY: N = Data are nonexistent.
NOTE: Data represent one-way flows. Water data represent port to port pairs rather than metropolitan area pairs.
SOURCES
Road: Statistics Canada. Transportation Division. Special for-hire trucking tabulations for Transport Canada. (Ottawa, Ont.: 1998).
Water transport: Transport Canada. Economic Analysis Directorate. (Ottawa, Ont.: 1998). (Tabulations derived from Statistics Canada's Marine Database.)