Highlights of Top 25 Freight Gateways by Shipment Value

This section presents gateway-specific tables and brief highlights of key transportation data for U.S. international merchandise freight passing through the gateways into and out of the United States.

For land gateways the report...

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Appendix Table. Top U.S. Freight Gateways Handling International Merchandise Valued Over $1 Billion, 2003

($ millions)

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Acknowledgments

Norman Y. MinetaSecretary

Rick Kowalewski Deputy Director 

Mary J. Hutzler Associate Director for Statistical Programs

William J. Chang Associate Director for...

BOX 2. International Trade Data: Sources and Issues

In the United States, numerous agencies are involved in the collection, processing, and dissemination of international trade and transportation data. No one dataset provides all the information needed by the transportation community, and...

TABLE 3. Percentage Change in the Value of Merchandise Trade Handled by the Top 25 U.S. Freight Gateways: 1999 and 2003

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TABLE 2. Top 50 U.S. Freight Gateways, Ranked by Value of Shipments, 2003

(Current $, billions)

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TABLE 4. Value of U.S. Merchandise Trade with NAFTA Partners Compared with U.S. Trade with Overseas Countries: 1994-2003

(Current $, billions)

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BOX 1. Selecting the Leading Gateways

This report ranks freight gateways by the value of merchandise trade they handle. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) compiled value data from multiple sources that allows comparison of all the freight modes. See Box 2 for a detailed...

TABLE 6. Weight of U.S. Merchandise Imports Entering by Surface Modes: 2000-2003

(Short tons, thousands)

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