New section in Australian Industry, 2009-10 report
July 8, 2011
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has added “transport services” to its data for national industry performance for the financial year 2009-10.
Given that it is a new data stream, there were no comparable figures for previous years.
What it did show was that, at 550,000, the transport, postal and warehousing industry employed a little more than 10 percent of the workforce of industries the ABS measures for its Australian Industry 2009-10 survey.
In the road transport sector, total income was $46.5 billion, of which $29 billion came from transporting goods.
For postal and courier services, the figures were $10.4 billion and $2.6 billion respectively.
Freight, cartage, delivery and transport expenses to other businesses was $7.3 billion and $1.6 billion for postal and courier.
But that was about as much differentiation as there was between goods and passenger transport.
Total expenses were $42 billion, of which total transport-related expenses was $17.5 billion.
Petroleum products and fuels, repairs and maintenance, and other vehicle and running expenses were $5.9 billion, $2.2 billion and $1.1 billion respectively.
Road vehicles cost the sector $3.4 billion, with total capital expenditure at $4.4 billion.
Road transport labour costs came in at $11.6 billion.
In the wider industry, total income from transporting goods not owned or sold by the companies, along with other transport services income and other income, was measured at $131.8 billion.
Total expenditure weighed in at $121.4 billion, of which $31 billion went on labour costs and $11.8 billion petroleum products and fuels.
Transport firms spent $7.7 billion on vehicles and $12.5 billion on other capital items.
Rent, leasing and hiring of transport and other vehicles was $3.1 billion.
The new statistics can be downloaded from here:
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/8155.02009-10?OpenDocument