8 percent $1.6 trillion industry freight industry transporting 1.48 Trillion USD industry 8% of the GDP $1.6 trillion industry transportation and logistics industry 8% of the GDP As per the stats versus 7.5 percent in the U.S. $1.5 trillion transportation $1.6 trillion mark Logistics and Transportation Industry | SelectUSA.gov 5 million tons 10 billion tons of freight placing it around 7.5% of the U.S. GDP everything having to do with transportation transporting $8 trillion in annual revenues (2015) transportation and logistics spending in 2016 $1.4 trillion — and growing — industry