EVIDENCIA 6: Diana Silvera Ceballo

THE LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES

INDUSTRY
OVERVIEW
SUBSECTORS

The logistics and Air and express

transportation Logistics services Freight rail Maritime Trucking
delivery services
industry in the
United States is
highly competitive.
By investing in this This subsector Firms offer High volumes of This subsector Over-the-road
sector, includes inbound expedited, time heavy cargo and includes carriers, transportation of
multinational firms and outbound sensitive, and end- products are seaports, terminals, cargo is provided
position transportation to-end services for transported long and labor involved by motor vehicles
themselves to management, fleet documents, small distances in the movement of over short and
better facilitate the management, parcels, and high- throughout the U.S. cargo and medium distances.
flow of goods warehousing, value items. EDS via the U.S. rail passengers by The American
throughout the materials handling, firms also provide network. Each day, water. Water Trucking
world's largest order fulfillment, the export this 140,000-mile transportation Associations
consumer market. logistics network infrastructure for network delivers an moves the reports that trucks
International and design, inventory many exporters, average of 5 million predominant share move 9.2 billion
domestic management, particularly small tons of goods and of U.S. tons of freight, the
companies in this supply and and medium-sized serves almost international predominant modal
industry benefit demand planning, businesses that every industrial, merchandise trade, share of all freight
from a highly third-party logistics cannot afford to wholesale, retail, including 76 tonnage
skilled workforce management, and operate their own and resource- percent of U.S. transported
and relatively low other support supply chain. based sector of the exports by domestically.
costs and services. economy. tonnage.
regulatory burdens.