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Table 2b. Export Shipment Characteristics by Domestic Mode of Transportation: 2012 and 2007

Monday, July 13, 2015

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(Estimates are based on data from the 2012 and 2007 Commodity Flow Survey. Because of rounding, estimates may not be additive)

Domestic mode of transportation Value Tons Ton-miles (1)
2012
(million dollars)
2007
(million dollars)
Percent change 2012
(thousands)
2007
(thousands)
Percent change 2012
(millions)
2007
(millions)
Percent change
All modes 1,124,679 873,409 28.8 564,520 479,578 17.7 274,934 230,154 19.5
Single modes 922,158 666,462 38.4 510,502 404,786 26.1 244,601 164,784 48.4
Truck (2) 519,776 481,925 7.9 207,139 210,910 –1.8 100,956 78,673 28.3
 For-hire truck 463,217 366,520 26.4 154,541 128,608 20.2 94,889 70,600 34.4
 Private truck 56,559 115,405 –51.0 52,597 82,303 –36.1 6,068 8,073 –24.8
Rail 74,901 62,726 19.4 169,631 132,541 28.0 114,698 74,474 54.0
Water 63,699 20,832 205.8 123,554 58,013 113.0 23,289 10,664 118.4
 Inland water 23,118 14,479 59.7 47,828 39,761 20.3 6,152 S S
 Deep sea 33,241 6,123 442.9 54,905 14,969 266.8 1,205 6,242 –80.7
 Multiple waterways 7,155 X X 15,678 X X 14,913 X X
Air (includes truck and air) 258,179 98,873 161.1 3,261 926 252.4 3,482 944 268.9
Pipeline (3) 5,603 S S 6,917 S S S S S
Multiple modes 202,521 178,808 13.3 54,018 54,319 –0.6 30,333 62,266 –51.3
Parcel, U.S. Postal Service, or courier 131,438 104,600 25.7 692 719 –3.7 782 656 19.4
Truck and rail 61,729 49,303 25.2 41,846 26,263 59.3 21,763 34,741 –37.4
Truck and water 7,834 18,146 –56.8 2,416 13,206 –81.7 2,447 19,575 –87.5
Rail and water 1,192 1,841 –35.3 S S S S 3,225 S
Other multiple modes 328 4,917 –93.3 2,414 9,752 –75.2 1,666 4,070 –59.1
Other modes 0 28,139 –100.0 0 20,472 –100.0 0 3,103 –100.0

KEY: S = Withheld because estimate did not meet publication standards.

X = Not applicable.

(1) Ton-miles estimates are based on estimated distances traveled along a modeled transportation network. See “Mileage Calculations” section for additional information.

(2) “Truck” as a single mode includes shipments that were made by only private truck or only for-hire truck.

(3) Estimates for pipeline exclude shipments of crude petroleum (SCTG 16).

NOTES: Value-of-shipments estimates have not been adjusted for price changes. Appendix B tables provide estimated measures of sampling variability. The Introduction and appendixes give information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, sample design and definitions. Links to this information on the Internet may be found at <www.census.gov/econ/cfs>.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 Economic Census: Transportation Commodity Flow Survey, December 2014.