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North Dakota

Monday, July 18, 2016
  Value (in millions) Weight (in thousand tons)
Total Shipments Originating in North Dakota $37,106 - $54,380 59,496 - 116,646
Percent of Total U.S. shipments (%) 0.2 - 0.4 0.5 - 1.1

 

Commodities Originating in North Dakota

2-Digit SCTG - Commodity Description % of Value
03 Agricultural products (excludes animal feed, cereal grains, and forage products) 8.5 - 20.3
34 Machinery 6.7 - 20.7
36 Motorized and other vehicles (includes parts) 5.7 - 17.5
02 Cereal grains (includes seed) 4.1 - 15.5
17-R Gasoline, aviation turbine fuel, and ethanol (includes kerosene and fuel alcohols) 3.8 - 8.6
All other commodities NA
Total NA

Commodities Originating in North Dakota

2-Digit SCTG - Commodity Description % of Weight
15 Coal 14.2 - 34.8
02 Cereal grains (includes seed) 6.9 - 28.9
03 Agricultural products (excludes animal feed, cereal grains, and forage products) 7.0 - 19.0
17-R Gasoline, aviation turbine fuel, and ethanol (includes kerosene and fuel alcohols) 0.7 - 8.3
07-R Other prepared foodstuffs, and fats and oils 2.6 - 5.2
All other commodities NA
Total NA

 

Shipments Originating from North Dakota

Destination % of Value
North Dakota 43.7 - 59.1
Minnesota 6.5 - 14.1
Washington 2.8 - 10.4
Illinois 1.6 - 6.0
Wisconsin 1.6 - 4.6
California 1.0 - 3.6
All other states NA
Total NA

Shipments Originating from North Dakota

Destination % of Weight
North Dakota 58.4 - 76.4
Minnesota 0.0 - 16.1
Washington 0.0 - 12.3
Wisconsin 1.4 - 5.4
Illinois 0.7 - 4.7
Texas 0.5 - 2.3
All other states NA
Total NA

Shipments Inbound to North Dakota

Origin % of Value
North Dakota 32.5 - 45.3
Minnesota 11.3 - 15.3
Texas 3.3 - 10.9
Illinois 4.2 - 9.6
Wisconsin 2.3 - 6.7
Iowa 1.7 - 3.9
All other states NA
Total NA

Shipments Inbound to North Dakota

Origin % of Weight
North Dakota 63.4 - 81.0
Minnesota 6.1 - 13.1
Montana 1.4 - 11.2
Texas 0.0 - 2.6
South Dakota 0.6 - 1.6
Wisconsin 0.6 - 1.4
All other states NA
Total NA

 

Mode of Transportation for Shipments Originating in North Dakota

Mode % of Value
Truck 58.8 - 77.4
Air (includes truck and air) 0.1 - 0.1
Rail 12.6 - 26.2
Water NA
Pipeline1 0.0 - 10.9
Multiple modes2 5.6 - 9.6
Parcel, U.S.P.S., or courier 2.9 - 7.7
Other modes 0.1 - 1.1
   
Total NA

Mode of Transportation for Shipments Originating in North Dakota

Mode % of Weight
Truck 39.6 - 61.2
Air (includes truck and air) NA
Rail 14.3 - 37.1
Water NA
Pipeline1 0.0 - 13.1
Multiple modes2 0.9 - 2.7
Parcel, U.S.P.S., or courier 0.1 - 0.1
Other modes 9.5 - 28.5
   
Total NA

Distance Shipped for Shipments Originating in North Dakota

Miles Shipped % of Value
Less than 50 26.0 - 38.0
50 to 99 9.4 - 17.4
100 to 249 9.9 - 17.3
250 to 499 5.2 - 14.0
500 to 749 5.5 - 9.9
750 to 999 2.9 - 9.1
1,000 to 1,499 12.5 - 22.1
1,500 to 1,999 0.3 - 0.7
2,000 or more NA
Total NA

Distance Shipped for Shipments Originating in North Dakota

Miles Shipped % of Weight
Less than 50 47.2 - 60.0
50 to 99 6.4 - 14.0
100 to 249 4.4 - 8.8
250 to 499 0.0 - 18.0
500 to 749 1.7 - 5.7
750 to 999 2.1 - 7.3
1,000 to 1,499 6.0 - 18.0
1,500 to 1,999 NA
2,000 or more NA
Total NA

 

Industry for Shipments Originating in North Dakota

NAICS - Industry % of Value
212 Mining (except oil and gas) 0.9 - 2.3
31-33 Manufacturing 24.0 - 40.2
42 Wholesale trade 56.8 - 73.0
4541 Electronic shopping and mail-order houses 0.2 - 1.6
45431 Fuel dealers 0.0 - 0.8
49313 Warehousing and storage NA
5111 Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers NA
551114 Corporate, subsidary, and regional managing offices NA
Total NA

Industry for Shipments Originating in North Dakota

NAICS - Industry % of Weight
212 Mining (except oil and gas) 28.6 - 51.4
31-33 Manufacturing 12.2 - 26.2
42 Wholesale trade 30.5 - 50.7
4541 Electronic shopping and mail-order houses NA
45431 Fuel dealers 0.0 - 0.8
49313 Warehousing and storage NA
5111 Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers NA
551114 Corporate, subsidary, and regional managing offices NA
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.