Table 2
Characteristics of shipments by trade and carrier
type, 2008
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| All carriers | General freight | Specialized freight | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local | Long distance | Moving | Bulk liquids | Dry bulk | Forest products | Other | |||
| Truck-load | Less-than-truck-load | ||||||||
| percent | |||||||||
| All origins-destinations | |||||||||
| Revenue | 100 | 12.4 | 36.5 | 16.8 | 1.0 | 8.6 | 5.9 | 2.6 | 16.2 |
| Tonnes | 100 | 14.1 | 24.2 | 5.8 | 0.2 | 17.5 | 19.1 | 6.9 | 12.2 |
| Shipments | 100 | 16.9 | 24.1 | 27.9 | 0.6 | 8.0 | 6.5 | 2.3 | 13.7 |
| Distance shipped | 100 | 9.2 | 30.9 | 43.2 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 11.5 |
| Tonne-kilometre | 100 | 8.4 | 47.0 | 10.5 | 0.4 | 6.9 | 7.2 | 3.4 | 16.2 |
| average | |||||||||
| Revenue per shipment (dollars) | 514 | 377 | 777 | 310 | 815 | 553 | 468 | 588 | 610 |
| Distance per shipment (kilometre) | 583 | 318 | 747 | 902 | 437 | 158 | 159 | 204 | 490 |
| Tonnes per shipment (number) | 10 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 29 | 30 | 9 |
| Tonnne-kilometre per shipment (number) |
3,685 | 1,824 | 7,181 | 1,384 | 2,254 | 3,196 | 4,069 | 5,563 | 4,381 |
| percent | |||||||||
| Domestic | |||||||||
| Revenue | 100 | 14.8 | 27.8 | 16.7 | 1.2 | 12.0 | 7.4 | 3.5 | 16.6 |
| Tonnes | 100 | 14.7 | 18.3 | 5.7 | 0.2 | 20.1 | 21.1 | 7.7 | 12.1 |
| Shipments | 100 | 18.1 | 20.6 | 27.4 | 0.7 | 9.2 | 7.2 | 2.5 | 14.3 |
| Distance shipped | 100 | 10.1 | 25.1 | 46.5 | 0.5 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 12.0 |
| Tonne-kilometre | 100 | 9.2 | 35.6 | 12.4 | 0.4 | 10.7 | 9.6 | 4.9 | 17.3 |
| average | |||||||||
| Revenue per shipment (dollars) | 403 | 328 | 543 | 246 | 743 | 527 | 415 | 565 | 468 |
| Distance per shipment (kilometre) | 454 | 252 | 553 | 769 | 356 | 144 | 123 | 175 | 381 |
| Tonnes per shipment (number) | 10 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 29 | 30 | 8 |
| Tonnne-kilometre per shipment (number) |
2,529 | 1,278 | 4,371 | 1,143 | 1,337 | 2,946 | 3,381 | 4,934 | 3,057 |
| percent | |||||||||
| Cross-border | |||||||||
| Revenue | 100 | 7.7 | 53.9 | 17.1 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 15.5 |
| Tonnes | 100 | 10.2 | 59.0 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 7.1 | 2.0 | 13.0 |
| Shipments | 100 | 10.0 | 44.2 | 30.8 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 10.0 |
| Distance shipped | 100 | 7.6 | 42.3 | 36.7 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 10.4 |
| Tonne-kilometre | 100 | 7.3 | 63.0 | 7.8 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 14.8 |
| average | |||||||||
| Revenue per shipment (dollars) | 1,150 | 880 | 1,402 | 637 | 1,931 | 1,769 | 1,252 | 1,036 | 1,785 |
| Distance per shipment (kilometre) | 1,324 | 1,005 | 1,266 | 1,579 | 1,698 | 848 | 691 | 745 | 1,384 |
| Tonnes per shipment (number) | 10 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 24 | 24 | 12 |
| Tonnne-kilometre per shipment (number) |
10,323 | 7,477 | 14,701 | 2,618 | 16,500 | 14,957 | 14,157 | 17,491 | 15,279 |
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Trucking Commodity Origin and Destination
Survey, 2008.
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