Transportation network - Moving goods and people
Catalogue number: 50-502-X
Issue number: 2018004
Description: Transportation network - Moving goods and people
By boat
- Over 550 port facilities
- 18 Canadian Port Authorities
- Handled international trade valued at $251 billion
- Total traffic for Canadian Port Authorities was 342 million tonnes
By train
- 26 federally regulated railways
- Three class 1 Railways
- 41,465 route kilometres of railway track
- Rail freight just over 331 million tonnes
By plane
- 26 national airports
- 285 certified land aerodromes
- 6.5 million aircraft movements
- Over 156 million air passengers per year
By truck
- Over 24 million road motor vehicles
- 1.13 million kilometres of two-lane roads or equivalent
- For-hire trucking traffic amounted to 295 billion tonne-kilometres
- Direct economic footprint of Canada's transportation sector was $88 billion in 2018, which translated to 920 thousand jobs
- Over $1.2 trillion of goods moved to and from international markets
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