Practical Applications and Approaches on SITS

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Practical Applications and Approaches on SITS
Transportation in Australia
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Overview

• What are transportation Services
• Australian specific
• Data sources
• Detailed definitions by type of transportation
  service
• Collection vehicles
• Adjustments made etc
• Publication format

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Definition

• Transportation Services cover services provided
  by all modes of transportation performed by
  residents of one economy for those of another

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Transportation Services

• Includes
• Carriage of passengers (passenger)
• Movement of goods (freight)
• Rentals (charters) of carriers with crew
  (freight)
• Also includes supporting and auxiliary services
  such as
• Cargo handling
• Navigation fees
• Maintenance and cleaning of carriers

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Transportation Services

• Excludes
• Cruise Fares (Travel)
• Transportation within economy of provider
  (Travel)
• Goods procured in ports (Goods)
• Major repairs of transport equipment (goods)
• Repairs of facilities, for example
• Railway (Construction services)
• Harbours (Construction services)
• Docks (Construction services)
• Airfields (Construction services)

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Transportation Services

• In the EBOPS transportation services are
  classified
• By type of carrier
• Sea
• Air
• Other
• By functional category
• Passenger
• Freight
• Other

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Australian Data Sources

• Survey of International Trade in Services
• BOP 24 Non-Resident Producers of Sea
  Transportation Services
• BOP 25 Australian Resident Producers of Sea
  Transportation Services
• BOP 30 Non-Resident Producers of Air
  Transportation Services
• BOP 31 Australian Resident Producers of Air
  Transportation Services
• International Merchandise Trade (imports) used
  to model freight services debits

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Transportation Services
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Passenger Services - Definition

• All services provided between Australians and
  abroad, or between two foreign economies,
  involving the international transportation of
  non-resident persons by resident carriers
  (credit) and of resident persons by non-resident
  carriers (debit)

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Passenger services - in practice

• Residents report revenue earned from
  international tickets sold abroad
• Non-residents report revenue earned from ticket
  sales in Australia
• Adjustments are made to passenger fare earnings
  by resident and non-resident carriers
• Domestic transportation involving non-residents
  within Australia is included in travel services
• All transportation of residents overseas (ie on
  carriage, internal transportation) are included
  in transportation debits
• Cruise fares are excluded from transportation

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Freight Services

• Includes the transportation of
• Goods
• Oil platforms
• Floating cranes and dredges

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Physical Movement of Goods
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Transportation Debits
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Calculation of freight - Debits

• Modelled using imports data
• CIF less FOB value of freight and insurance
• Model estimates freight as a of total freight
  and insurance
• Freight on imports provided by residents is
  removed from total freight
• Calculate freight on petroleum separately from
  
  
  
  
  
  
  other goods

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Freight - Credits

• Collected in the Survey of International Trade in
  Services on the resident transportation forms
• BOP 25 Australian Resident Producers of Sea
  Transportation Services
• BOP 31 Australian Resident Producers of Air
  Transportation Services

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Other Transportation Services

• Includes a variety of services provided by
  residents to non-resident (and vice versa)
  including
• Cargo handling (loading an unloading of
  containers etc)
• Storage and warehousing
• Customs agency services
• Counter and baggage services
• Maintenance and operations
• Agency fees associated with passenger and freight
  transportation

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Confidentiality
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Publication

• In Australia we publish transportation by type of
  service, that is
• Passenger, freight and other
• International standards call for dissection by
  mode of transportation
• Sea, air, other (NB rail, road are not applicable
  for Australia)

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