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Tennessee

Monday, July 18, 2016
  Value (in millions) Weight (in thousand tons)
Total Shipments Originating in Tennessee $298,606 - $360,192 156,580 - 218,448
Percent of Total U.S. shipments (%) 2.2 - 2.6 1.4 - 2.0

 

Commodities Originating in Tennessee

2-Digit SCTG - Commodity Description % of Value
36 Motorized and other vehicles (includes parts) 5.9 - 16.5
21 Pharmaceutical products 5.6 - 15.4
43 Mixed freight 5.5 - 11.7
24 Plastics and rubber 4.7 - 9.9
30 Textiles, leather, and articles of textiles or leather 4.9 - 7.5
All other commodities NA
Total NA

Commodities Originating in Tennessee

2-Digit SCTG - Commodity Description % of Weight
12 Gravel and crushed stone (excludes dolomite and slate) 12.2 - 26.4
07-R Other prepared foodstuffs, and fats and oils 5.4 - 11.2
31 Non-metallic mineral products 5.1 - 10.9
17-R Gasoline, aviation turbine fuel, and ethanol (includes kerosene and fuel alcohols) 3.2 - 12.0
32 Base metal in primary or semi-finished forms and in finished basic shapes 3.4 - 6.6
All other commodities NA
Total NA

 

Shipments Originating from Tennessee

Destination % of Value
Tennessee 24.1 - 29.5
Texas 5.4 - 8.0
Georgia 3.5 - 6.7
Louisiana 2.6 - 6.6
Kentucky 3.4 - 5.6
California 2.8 - 5.0
All other states NA
Total NA

Shipments Originating from Tennessee

Destination % of Weight
Tennessee 48.7 - 57.1
Mississippi 4.2 - 5.6
Georgia 3.5 - 6.1
Louisiana 2.5 - 6.1
Kentucky 3.6 - 4.6
Alabama 2.5 - 3.9
All other states NA
Total NA

Shipments Inbound to Tennessee

Origin % of Value
Tennessee 27.8 - 33.2
Kentucky 3.2 - 7.2
Texas 3.5 - 6.5
Georgia 4.0 - 5.4
Alabama 3.1 - 5.7
California 3.2 - 5.4
All other states NA
Total NA

Shipments Inbound to Tennessee

Origin % of Weight
Tennessee 50.3 - 57.7
Kentucky 4.3 - 9.7
Illinois 2.2 - 7.4
Alabama 2.7 - 5.3
Georgia 2.2 - 3.6
Louisiana 1.6 - 4.2
All other states NA
Total NA

 

Mode of Transportation for Shipments Originating in Tennessee

Mode % of Value
Truck 74.4 - 81.8
Air (includes truck and air) 0.8 - 2.6
Rail NA
Water 0.0 - 0.8
Pipeline1 NA
Multiple modes2 13.2 - 17.2
Parcel, U.S.P.S., or courier 10.1 - 14.1
Other modes NA
Total NA

Mode of Transportation for Shipments Originating in Tennessee

Mode % of Weight
Truck 85.6 - 89.6
Air (includes truck and air) NA
Rail 5.3 - 7.9
Water 0.0 - 4.1
Pipeline1 0.0 - 0.6
Multiple modes2 2.2 - 5.2
Parcel, U.S.P.S., or courier 0.2 - 0.6
Other modes NA
Total NA

Distance Shipped for Shipments Originating in Tennessee

Miles Shipped % of Value
Less than 50 16.5 - 22.7
50 to 99 6.2 - 8.4
100 to 249 14.6 - 20.4
250 to 499 22.3 - 26.3
500 to 749 13.9 - 17.1
750 to 999 6.3 - 9.3
1,000 to 1,499 2.2 - 3.2
1,500 to 1,999 3.5 - 6.1
2,000 or more 0.3 - 0.7
Total NA

Distance Shipped for Shipments Originating in Tennessee

Miles Shipped % of Weight
Less than 50 41.8 - 53.6
50 to 99 7.5 - 10.7
100 to 249 12.3 - 17.7
250 to 499 13.9 - 18.3
500 to 749 5.1 - 8.3
750 to 999 2.2 - 4.0
1,000 to 1,499 0.6 - 1.4
1,500 to 1,999 1.0 - 1.4
2,000 or more NA
Total NA

 

Industry for Shipments Originating in Tennessee

NAICS - Industry % of Value
212 Mining (except oil and gas) 0.1 - 0.5
31-33 Manufacturing 37.0 - 49.0
42 Wholesale trade 34.9 - 46.7
4541 Electronic shopping and mail-order houses 2.7 - 5.3
45431 Fuel dealers NA
49313 Warehousing and storage 6.3 - 14.7
5111 Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers 0.1 - 0.9
551114 Corporate, subsidary, and regional managing offices 0.2 - 1.6
Total NA

Industry for Shipments Originating in Tennessee

NAICS - Industry % of Weight
212 Mining (except oil and gas) 14.6 - 26.0
31-33 Manufacturing 36.1 - 47.9
42 Wholesale trade 28.8 - 41.6
4541 Electronic shopping and mail-order houses NA
45431 Fuel dealers NA
49313 Warehousing and storage 0.8 - 3.0
5111 Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers NA
551114 Corporate, subsidary, and regional managing offices 0.1 - 0.5
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.