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SCIAN 48-49—Transport, mail and storage

Sector · Sistema de Clasificación Industrial de América del Norte (2023)

Where 48-49 sits

48-49 Transport, mail and storage

Contains 11 narrower codes

Description

This sector comprises economic units primarily engaged in the transportation of people and cargo, providing specialized services directly related to transportation, and the storage of goods. Since the activities of post offices and courier services involve the transportation of goods, they were also classified within this sector. Within transportation, the breakdown was established according to the different modes of transport: air, rail, water, freight road transport, passenger road transport, pipelines, and tourism. For the postal sector, a distinction is made between the traditional postal service, generally operated by the state, and courier and parcel delivery establishments. Warehouses and storage facilities are subdivided according to the type of facilities they operate. A common characteristic of most economic units in the transportation and postal subsectors is their network structure, with facilities, workers, and activities distributed across extensive geographic areas. Transportation-related services are considered to be specialized support services for each particular mode of transport, such as air navigation services, port and dock management, and truck terminal management. They can also include establishments that serve multiple modes of transport, such as customs agencies or freight forwarding services. Additionally, transportation-related services encompass the repair and maintenance of transportation equipment, such as exterior aircraft cleaning at airports, cleaning of railcars and locomotives at railway terminals, and repair, maintenance, and conversion services for ships and yachts requiring crew.

What 48-49 includes

Establishments primarily engaged in the rental of aircraft with operator to perform air services other than transport, such as fumigation, aerial photography, among other special flights; to the maritime transport of refined petroleum products; to the road transport of cargo that requires temperature controlled by heat; to urban and suburban transport recognized as collective transport of metropolitan routes (considered as those routes that connect different points within the same metropolitan area, but are carried out between different federal entities) provided by buses, midibuses,minibuses, vans and vansauthorized to do so; to collective passenger transport on metropolitan trains; to passenger transport by radio taxis; to transport services in vehicles requested through a website or mobile application, without a regular schedule, with a route defined by the client, a single trip, and a fare determined by the website or application based on the distance traveled; to transport without medical service to move the elderly, people with disabilities, the weak, or the sick; to the rental of boats with crew for sport fishing; to the loading and unloading of goods and luggage; to providing rights of way on railway lines; to the operation of lighthouses; to home delivery services, such as food, clothing, or medicine; to providing logistics services, which consist of coordinating activities for the distribution of goods. These economic units carry out their activity by subcontracting services provided by other economic units—such as transport, storage, packaging and labeling services, and customs procedures—and only coordinate or subcontract to third parties; they do not carry out the transport, storage, etc., services themselves. Economic units, subcontracted by post offices, mainly dedicated to local mail delivery and the operation of rural post offices, and economic units dedicated to logistics services, which, among all their services, consider the predominant one to be air transport, rail transport, water transport, freight road transport, customs services, courier and parcel services, or storage services.

Cross-references for 48-49

Establishments primarily engaged in the extraction of crude oil, crude hydrocarbons in gaseous state and natural gas, and to the obtaining of natural butane gas, natural ethane, and liquid hydrocarbons in oil and natural gas fields (21, Mining); to the supply of natural gas by pipelines to the final consumer (22, Generation, transmission, distribution and marketing of electricity, supply of water and natural gas by pipelines to the final consumer); to the repair, maintenance, conversion and modification of ships and yachts when carried out in the same economic unit that manufactures them (31-33, Manufacturing industries); to the trade of goods (43, Wholesale trade; 46, Retail trade); to the rental of railway cars without operator and intermodal containers; of automobiles and buses without driver, and to the rental without intermediation of self-storage warehouses (53, Real estate and rental services of movable and intangible property); to provide advisory and support services for carrying out legal procedures, foreign trade consulting and logistics consulting (54, Professional, scientific and technical services); to provide a variety of administrative services for the daily management of businesses; to the reception of correspondence; to the interior cleaning of airplanes, ships, trains and railway cars; to the services of packing goods owned by third parties in wrappers, individual boxes or kits, and the labeling thereof; to the handling and collection of hazardous or non-hazardous waste (56, Business support services and waste management, and remediation services); to ambulance services (62, Health and social assistance services); to the storage and mooring of tourist vessels; to river tours on rafts and to provide tours to passengers for sporting purposes (71, Cultural and sporting leisure services, and other recreational services); to the repair, maintenance and modification of recreational vessels, except yachts that require a crew, and to the service of parking motor vehicles (81, Other services except government activities).