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1993 Commodity Flow Survey State Summary: New Mexico

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

1993 Commodity Flow Survey State Summary: New Mexico

Tabulation by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation

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Summary Value Weight
Total shipments originating in New Mexico $11.8 billion 61.4 million tons
Percent of total U.S. shipments (preliminary U.S. estimate) 0.2 0.6

Commodity Shipments Originating in New Mexico Ranked by Value

Commodity Percent of value
Petroleum or coal products 17.6
Food or kindred products 12.7
Machinery, including computers 9.5
Primary metal products 7.9
Chemicals or allied products 5.2
Other commodities 47.0
Total 100.0

Commodity Shipments Originating in New Mexico Ranked by Weight

Commodity Percent of weight
Coal 36.5
Petroleum or coal products 25.3
Nonmetallic minerals 13.2
Clay, concrete, glass, or stone products 7.6
Lumber or wood products, excluding furniture 3.2
Other commodities 14.2
Total 100.0

Domestic Destinations of Shipments Originating in New Mexico Ranked by Value

State Percent of value
New Mexico 48.3
Texas 19.8
Arizona 8.2
California 4.5
Colorado 2.6
Massachusetts 2.1
Other States 14.5
Total 100.0

Domestic Destinations of Shipments Originating in New Mexico Ranked by Weight

State Percent of weight
New Mexico 59.7
Arizona 20.5
Texas 9.7
Wisconsin 2.3
Colorado 1.0
Kansas 0.7
Other States 6.1
Total 100.0

Modes of Transportation for Shipments Originating in New Mexico

Modes Percent of value Percent of weight
Parcel, U.S. Postal Service, or courier service 12.4 -
Truck (for-hire, private, and both private truck and for-hire truck) 65.4 41.9
Air (including truck and air) 2.9 -
Rail 9.0 21.6
Water (inland water, Great Lakes, deep sea, truck and water, and rail and water) - -
Pipeline* ** **
Truck and rail intermodal combination 0.9 **
Other intermodal (truck and pipeline, inland and Gt. Lakes, inland and deep sea) - -
Other, unknown, and withheld for sampling and disclosure reasons 9.4 36.5
Total 100.0 100.0

Domestic Distance Shipped for Commodities Originating in New Mexico

Distance Percent of value Percent of weight
Less than 50 miles 34.6 54.5
50 to 99 miles 10.1 16.7
100 to 249 miles 24.0 15.7
250 to 499 miles 8.6 2.8
500 to 749 miles 6.4 3.1
750 to 999 miles 5.0 4.0
1,000 to 1,499 miles 5.5 2.9
1,500 to 1,999 miles 5.0 0.3
2,000 miles or more 0.8 0.1
Total 100.0 100.0

* CFS data for pipelines exclude most shipments of crude oil.

** Some or all data suppressed to avoid disclosure or because data are statistically unreliable.

- Represents zero or less than 1 unit of measurement.

NOTE: Data are estimates based on a sample and subject to error. See Appendix B, "Reliability of the Data," in source document.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1992 Census of Transportation, Communications, and Utilities, 1993 Commodity Flow Survey, TC92-CF (Washington, DC: 1996).