SCIANSubsector

SCIAN 488—Transportation-related services

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

Where 488 sits

48-49 Transport, mail and storage
488 Transportation-related services

Contains 6 narrower codes

Description

Economic units primarily engaged in providing specialized transportation-related services, such as airport operations, air and water navigation services, cargo loading and unloading, and the repair and maintenance of transportation equipment (exterior cleaning of aircraft at airports, railcars and locomotives at railway terminals, or repair, maintenance, and conversion services for ships and yachts requiring crew). These services may be specific to a particular mode of transport or may be provided by economic units serving multiple modes of transport.

What 488 includes

These economic units are involved in the loading and unloading of goods and luggage; providing railway rights of way; operating lighthouses; and 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 transportation, storage, packaging and labeling, and customs procedures—and only coordinate or subcontract to third parties; they do not carry out transportation, storage, etc., services themselves. There are also economic units dedicated to logistics services, which, among all their services, consider customs services to be the most important.

Cross-references for 488

Establishments primarily engaged in the repair, maintenance, conversion and modification of ships and yachts when carried out in the same economic unit that manufactures them (336, Manufacture of transport equipment); to the trade of goods (43, Wholesale trade; 46, Retail trade); to air freight transport (481, Air transport); to freight and passenger transport by rail (482, Rail transport); to freight transport by water (483, Water transport); to freight road transport (484, Freight road transport); to urban, suburban and intercity public passenger transport by bus (485, Land passenger transport, except by rail); to product storage services (493, Storage services); to the rental of railcars without an operator and intermodal containers (532, Rental services of movable goods); to providing advisory and support services for carrying out legal procedures, foreign trade consulting and logistics consulting (541, Professional, scientific and technical services); to provide a variety of administrative services for the daily management of businesses; to the interior cleaning of airplanes, ships, trains and railroad cars; to the services of packing goods owned by third parties in wrappers, individual boxes or kits, and the labeling thereof (561, Business support services); to the storage and mooring of tourist vessels (713, Entertainment services at recreational facilities and other recreational services); to the repair, maintenance and modification of recreational vessels, except yachts that require crew (811, Repair and maintenance services), and to the service of parking motor vehicles (812, Personal services).