WZ H—Transportation and storage

Where H sits

1. H Transportation and storage

Contains 5 narrower codes

• 49 Land transport and transport via pipelines
• 50 Water transport
• 51 Air transport
• 52 Warehousing, storage and support activities for transportation
• 53 Postal and courier activities

What H includes

• This section covers the transport of passengers and goods by rail, pipeline, road, water, and air. It includes the transport of people, whether for personal, professional, or leisure purposes, in scheduled or charter services. The leasing of means of transport with drivers or operating personnel, as well as postal and courier services, are also included in this section.
• This section further covers related activities (e.g., the operation of railway stations, ports, and airports, parking lots and multi-story car parks, cargo handling, and warehousing, such as the operation of silos, warehouses, and storage tanks). Transport activities classified in divisions 49, 50, 51, and 53 often include related activities (e.g., packaging, handling, temporary storage, sampling, and weighing of goods) that merely support the transport activities. These supporting activities are only assigned to division 52 if they are carried out on behalf of third parties.
• Intermediary activities that connect customers with providers of goods and passenger transport services, excluding those for Division 79

What H excludes

• Major repair, maintenance and modification work on vehicles (excluding motor vehicles), see Group 33.1
• Construction, maintenance and repair of roads, railways, ports and airfields, see Division 42
• Letting of vehicles without driver or operator, see Groups 77.1 and 77.3
• Transport services as part of leisure facilities (e.g. in amusement parks), see Group 93.2
• Repair and maintenance of motor vehicles, see 95.31
• Repair and maintenance of motorcycles, see 95.32.0

H in other systems