Freight Shipments by Commodity
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Weight and Value of Freight Shipments by Commodity: 2017
| Commodity | Weight (thousands of tons) |
Value (millions of current dollars) |
|---|---|---|
| 01 – Live animals and fish | 106,300 | 171,679 |
| 02 – Cereal grains | 1,237,802 | 152,208 |
| 03 – Other agricultural products | 593,029 | 402,778 |
| 04 – Feed and products of animal origin | 336,845 | 125,481 |
| 05 – Meat and seafood | 105,922 | 376,886 |
| 06 – Milled grain products | 122,956 | 169,726 |
| 07 – Other prepared foodstuffs | 680,125 | 712,191 |
| 08 – Alcoholic beverages | 109,634 | 207,768 |
| 09 – Tobacco products | 2,975 | 79,258 |
| 10 – Building stone | 39,426 | 7,025 |
| 11 – Natural sands | 711,636 | 13,110 |
| 12 – Gravel and crushed stone | 1,953,003 | 23,726 |
| 13 – Other nonmetallic minerals | 188,478 | 20,034 |
| 14 – Metallic ores | 101,639 | 21,958 |
| 15 – Coal | 830,549 | 35,941 |
| 16 – Crude petroleum | 1,037,112 | 331,371 |
| 17 – Gasoline, kerosene, and ethanol | 1,206,677 | 626,475 |
| 18 – Diesel and other fuel oils | 980,285 | 460,546 |
| 19 – Other fossil fuel products | 2,259,195 | 720,353 |
| 20 – Basic chemicals | 361,434 | 317,555 |
| 21 – Pharmaceutical products | 22,101 | 1,097,252 |
| 22 – Fertilizers | 161,411 | 56,177 |
| 23 – Chemical products and preparations | 125,685 | 392,067 |
| 24 – Plastics and rubber | 247,032 | 689,475 |
| 25 – Logs and wood in the rough | 322,918 | 18,136 |
| 26 – Wood products | 428,030 | 226,169 |
| 27 – Pulp, paper, and paperboard | 171,064 | 168,561 |
| 28 – Paper or paperboard articles | 82,350 | 138,973 |
| 29 – Printed products | 35,013 | 126,429 |
| 30 – Textiles and leather | 66,691 | 623,900 |
| 31 – Nonmetallic mineral products | 1,103,261 | 280,640 |
| 32 – Metal in basic shapes | 319,907 | 442,649 |
| 33 – Articles of metal | 147,369 | 455,605 |
| 34 – Machinery | 119,388 | 1,051,707 |
| 35 – Electronics | 90,977 | 1,583,827 |
| 36 – Motorized and other vehicles | 211,023 | 1,574,993 |
| 37 – Other transportation equipment | 17,471 | 381,720 |
| 38 – Precision instruments | 15,088 | 463,440 |
| 39 – Furniture | 73,630 | 396,647 |
| 40 – Miscellaneous manufactured products | 103,873 | 781,904 |
| 41 – Waste and scrap | 603,500 | 86,407 |
| 43 – Mixed freight | 390,126 | 1,487,759 |
| 99 – Unknown | 1,354 | 377 |
| Total (All Commodities) | 17,824,281 | 17,500,885 |
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Federal Highway Administration, Freight Analysis Framework, version 4.5, 2019.
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