BTS Adds Air, Sea Data to Monthly Trans-Border Trade Stats
The Transportation Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics will include data for air and sea cargo in its monthly trans-border statistical releases, it said in a March 27 press release. The releases previously included categories for truck, rail, pipeline, other and unknown modes. The category for other and unknown modes will now be grouped with surface transportation, said BTS.
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There was $90.5 billion in trade with NAFTA partners in January of 2013, up 6.9 percent from December 2012, said BTS in the press release. Trucks transported 59.3 percent of that trade, while rail made up 14.3 percent and vessels accounted for 9.8 percent, said BTS. For trade between the U.S. and Canada, trucks carried 53.1 percent of the $51.0 billion in trade, followed by rail at 16.2 percent, pipelines at 13.9 percent, vessels at 6.1 percent and air at 4.4 percent. Trade with Mexico was worth $39.5 billion, 67.4 percent of which was carried by trucks. Vessels carried 14.5 percent and rail made of 11.8 percent of that trade, said BTS.
January's NAFTA imports, worth $49.5 billion, grew 7.4 percent from December and 2.6 from January of 2012. Imports via truck made up the biggest percentage, accounting for $25.6 billion, and increased 10.5 percent from December and 1.6 percent for January last year.