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Box 2-1 - The Commodity Flow Survey and Supplementary Freight Data

Box 2-1 - The Commodity Flow Survey and Supplementary Freight Data

Most of the national estimates of freight movement presented in this report are based on preliminary results from the 1997 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), conducted by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the Census...

Figure 2-9 - Tonnage Handled by Major Water Ports: 1997

Figure 2-9 - Tonnage Handled by Major Water Ports: 1997

NOTE: Major ports were defined as having one port with over 10 million tons shipped in 1997, and were combined with other ports in the same major waterway or located in the same metropolitan statistical area with at least...