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1993 Commodity Flow Survey State Summary: Wyoming

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

1993 Commodity Flow Survey State Summary: Wyoming

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

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Summary Value Weight
Total shipments originating in Wyoming $9.0 billion 292.3 million tons
Percent of total U.S. shipments (preliminary U.S. estimate) 0.1 3.0

Commodity Shipments Originating in Wyoming Ranked by Value

Commodity Percent of value
Coal 22.3
Petroleum or coal products 14.8
Machinery, including computers 4.3
Food or kindred products 3.4
Clay, concrete, glass, or stone products . 2.8
Other commodities 52.4
Total 100.0

Commodity Shipments Originating in Wyoming Ranked by Weight

Commodity Percent of weight
Coal 81.6
Petroleum or coal products 4.7
Nonmetallic minerals 2.4
Clay, concrete, glass, or stone products 1.1
Lumber or wood products, excluding furniture 0.7
Other commodities 9.5
Total 100.0

Domestic Destinations of Shipments Originating in Wyoming Ranked by Value

State Percent of value
Wyoming 29.2
Texas 7.2
Colorado 5.6
Oklahoma 2.8
Missouri 2.6
Kansas 2.2
Other States 50.4
Total 100.0

Domestic Destinations of Shipments Originating in Wyoming Ranked by Weight

State Percent of weight
Wyoming 15.7
Texas 14.3
Missouri 7.5
Kansas 7.5
Oklahoma 6.3
Iowa 6.2
Other States 42.5
Total 100.0

Modes of Transportation for Shipments Originating in Wyoming

Modes Percent of value Percent of weight
Parcel, U.S. Postal Service, or courier service 2.1 -
Truck (for-hire, private, and both private truck and for-hire truck) 29.8 7.3
Air (including truck and air) ** **
Rail 56.8 85.3
Water (inland water, Great Lakes, deep sea, truck and water, and rail and water) 0.4 3.5
Pipeline* ** -
Truck and rail intermodal combination 1.6 **
Other intermodal (truck and pipeline, inland and Gt. Lakes, inland and deep sea) - -
Other, unknown, and withheld for sampling and disclosure reasons 9.3 3.9
Total 100.0 100.0

Domestic Distance Shipped for Commodities Originating in Wyoming

Distance Percent of value Percent of weight
Less than 50 miles 22.0 11.4
50 to 99 miles 5.3 1.3
100 to 249 miles 8.7 5.8
250 to 499 miles 5.7 7.4
500 to 749 miles ** 30.7
750 to 999 miles 9.9 22.6
1,000 to 1,499 miles 11.3 19.8
1,500 to 1,999 miles 2.0 0.9
2,000 miles or more - -
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).