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Louisiana

Monday, July 18, 2016
  Value (in millions) Weight (in thousand tons)
Total Shipments Originating in Louisiana $297,744 - $401,572 364,276 - 512,056
Percent of Total U.S. shipments (%) 2.1 - 2.9 3.3 - 4.5

 

Commodities Originating in Louisiana

2-Digit SCTG - Commodity Description % of Value
17-R Gasoline, aviation turbine fuel, and ethanol (includes kerosene and fuel alcohols) 17.3 - 33.5
18-R Fuel oils (includes diesel, bunker c, and biodiesel) 8.4 - 18.6
20 Basic chemicals 8.2 - 14.8
19 Other coal and petroleum products, not elsewhere classified 6.5 - 11.7
24 Plastics and rubber 3.1 - 6.7
All other commodities NA
Total NA

Commodities Originating in Louisiana

2-Digit SCTG - Commodity Description % of Weight
17-R Gasoline, aviation turbine fuel, and ethanol (includes kerosene and fuel alcohols) 14.8 - 28.8
20 Basic chemicals 10.3 - 17.9
18-R Fuel oils (includes diesel, bunker c, and biodiesel) 7.5 - 18.1
19 Other coal and petroleum products, not elsewhere classified 8.0 - 14.6
02 Cereal grains (includes seed) 3.3 - 9.9
All other commodities NA
Total NA

 

Shipments Originating from Louisiana

Destination % of Value
Louisiana 52.0 - 59.6
Texas 10.9 - 14.9
Mississippi 2.4 - 8.2
Florida 1.6 - 6.8
Georgia 1.4 - 2.8
Alabama 0.8 - 2.6
All other states NA
Total NA

Shipments Originating from Louisiana

Destination % of Weight
Louisiana 55.8 - 64.6
Texas 8.4 - 13.6
Mississippi 2.4 - 7.8
Florida 1.3 - 5.7
Georgia 1.2 - 3.8
Illinois 1.3 - 2.3
All other states NA
Total NA

Shipments Inbound to Louisiana

Origin % of Value
Louisiana 45.7 - 55.9
Texas 8.7 - 11.7
Tennessee 2.1 - 5.7
Mississippi 2.7 - 4.5
Illinois 2.7 - 4.1
Alabama 1.4 - 2.8
All other states NA
Total NA

Shipments Inbound to Louisiana

Origin % of Weight
Louisiana 61.3 - 70.1
Illinois 1.6 - 7.8
Texas 3.4 - 5.2
Kentucky 1.3 - 5.3
Wyoming 1.8 - 3.6
Mississippi 1.3 - 3.9
All other states NA
Total NA

 

Mode of Transportation for Shipments Originating in Louisiana

Mode % of Value
Truck 28.6 - 37.0
Air (includes truck and air) 0.1 - 0.5
Rail 8.1 - 12.5
Water 24.0 - 35.0
Pipeline1 17.2 - 26.8
Multiple modes2 3.8 - 6.4
Parcel, U.S.P.S., or courier 1.4 - 2.4
Other modes NA
Total NA

Mode of Transportation for Shipments Originating in Louisiana

Mode % of Weight
Truck 22.7 - 31.1
Air (includes truck and air) NA
Rail 8.2 - 13.6
Water 32.6 - 46.2
Pipeline1 16.6 - 24.2
Multiple modes2 1.2 - 3.4
Parcel, U.S.P.S., or courier NA
Other modes NA
Total NA

Distance Shipped for Shipments Originating in Louisiana

Miles Shipped % of Value
Less than 50 40.3 - 48.7
50 to 99 6.6 - 14.0
100 to 249 10.9 - 18.9
250 to 499 6.5 - 11.7
500 to 749 7.0 - 10.6
750 to 999 6.1 - 8.7
1,000 to 1,499 2.4 - 4.6
1,500 to 1,999 1.1 - 1.5
2,000 or more -0.1 - 0.3
Total NA

Distance Shipped for Shipments Originating in Louisiana

Miles Shipped % of Weight
Less than 50 46.6 - 55.0
50 to 99 6.3 - 13.3
100 to 249 9.6 - 15.8
250 to 499 5.0 - 10.8
500 to 749 6.8 - 10.0
750 to 999 5.2 - 8.2
1,000 to 1,499 1.5 - 4.1
1,500 to 1,999 0.4 - 1.2
2,000 or more NA
Total NA

 

Industry for Shipments Originating in Louisiana

NAICS - Industry % of Value
212 Mining (except oil and gas) NA
31-33 Manufacturing 70.0 - 79.2
42 Wholesale trade 16.8 - 25.2
4541 Electronic shopping and mail-order houses NA
45431 Fuel dealers NA
49313 Warehousing and storage 0.5 - 3.5
5111 Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers NA
551114 Corporate, subsidary, and regional managing offices 1.1 - 2.9
Total NA

Industry for Shipments Originating in Louisiana

NAICS - Industry % of Weight
212 Mining (except oil and gas) 2.0 - 5.2
31-33 Manufacturing 68.4 - 77.2
42 Wholesale trade 15.6 - 23.6
4541 Electronic shopping and mail-order houses NA
45431 Fuel dealers NA
49313 Warehousing and storage 0.1 - 1.1
5111 Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers NA
551114 Corporate, subsidary, and regional managing offices 1.4 - 5.0
Total NA

NA Not applicable. The estimate and/or standard error needed to calculate the 90% confidence interval was either suppressed (because of high sampling variability or poor response quality), rounded to zero, or a data cell equal to zero.

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

2 Multiple modes inlcudes Parcel, U.S.P.S, or courier, Truck-Rail, Truck-Water, Rail-Water, and Other multiple modes.

3 For tabulation and publication purposes, NAICS 484 is grouped with NAICS 4931.

07-R Prior to the 2012 CFS, oils and fats treated for use as biodiesel were included in SCTG 07. In the 2012 CFS, oils and fats treated for use as biodiesel moved to SCTG 18.

08-R Prior to the 2012 CFS, alcohols intended for use as fuel such as ethanol, although not specifically identified, were included in SCTG 08. In the 2012 CFS, ethanol moved to SCTG 17.

17-R Prior to the 2012 CFS, fuel alcohols such as ethanol were included in SCTG 08, although not specifically identified. Also, kerosene was included in SCTG 19. In the 2012 CFS, ethanol, fuel alcohols, and kerosene moved to SCTG 17.

18-R Prior to the 2012 CFS, biodiesel, although not specifically identified, was included in SCTG 07. In the 2012 CFS, biodiesel moved to SCTG 18.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 2012 Commodity Flow Survey data, December 2014.