Table 5-3a Top Canadian Domestic Freight Commodities by Mode: 1996
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Table 5-3a
Top Canadian Domestic Freight Commodities by Mode: 1996
(Millions of metric tons)
| Mode of transportation | Total |
|---|---|
| Air | |
| N | N |
| Pipeline | |
| Natural gas | 120.1 |
| Crude oil | 118.9 |
| Petroleum products | 64.5 |
| Rail | |
| Bituminous coal | 39.8 |
| Iron ore and concentrates | 37.4 |
| Wheat | 20.3 |
| Muriate of potassium (potash) | 12.3 |
| Pulpwood and chips | 11.7 |
| Road | |
| Forest products | 40.3 |
| Live animals and food products | 24.0 |
| Petroleum products | 23.1 |
| Construction materials | 18.4 |
| Steel | 14.4 |
| Water transport | |
| Iron ore | 7.0 |
| Pulpwood and chips | 6.7 |
| Wheat | 4.8 |
| Stone and limestone | 4.7 |
| Fuel oil | 4.3 |
| Intermodal | |
| N | N |
KEY: N = Data are nonexistent.
SOURCES
Pipeline: Statistics Canada. Oil Pipeline Transport, Catalogue No. 55-201-XPB, 1996. (Ottawa, Ont.: 1997). Statistics Canada. Gas Utilities, Transport and Distribution Systems, Catalogue No. 57-205-XPB, 1996. (Ottawa, Ont.: 1997).
Rail: Statistics Canada. Rail in Canada, Catalogue No. 52-216-XPB, 1996. (Ottawa, Ont.: 1998).
Road: Statistics Canada. Transportation Division. Special for-hire trucking tabulations for Transport Canada. (Ottawa, Ont.: 1998).
Water transport: Transport Canada. Economic Analysis Directorate. (Ottawa, Ont.: 1998). (Tabulations derived from Statistics Canada's Marine Database.)