News Capsule
By Staff -- Logistics Management, 5/1/2000
What's moving?
High-tech equipment and electronics lead the way in domestic freight shipments, as measured by the value of the shipments.
Commodity
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Value ($ billions) Electronics, electrical equipment and components, and office equipment
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926 Motorized and other vehicles
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591 Textiles, leather, and articles of textiles and leather
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550 Miscellaneous manufactured products
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518 Mixed freight
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451 Machinery
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448 Prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils
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347 Printed products
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316 Plastics and rubber
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298 Base metal in primary or semifinished forms
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290 Source: National Transportation Statistics 1999, Bureau of Transportation Statistics |
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