488999 All Other Support Activities for Transportation

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing support activities to transportation (except for air transportation; rail transportation; water transportation; road transportation; freight transportation arrangement; and packing and crating).

Examples Census gives

• Arrangement of vanpools or car pools (except ridesharing arrangement services)
• Independent pipeline terminal facilities
• Stockyards (i.e., not for fattening or selling livestock)

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Operating stockyards for fattening livestock are classified in Subsector 112, Animal Production and Aquaculture.
• Providing tariff and freight rate consulting services are classified in U.S. Industry 541614, Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consulting Services.
• Providing packing and crating services for transportation (except warehousing) are classified in U.S. Industry 488991, Packing and Crating.
• Providing warehousing services are classified in Industry Group 4931, Warehousing and Storage.
• Operating car pools and vanpools are classified in U.S. Industry 485999, All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation.
• Providing pipeline transportation and storage of natural gas are classified in Industry 486210, Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas.
• Providing support activities for air transportation are classified in Industry Group 4881, Support Activities for Air Transportation.
• Providing support activities for rail transportation are classified in Industry 488210, Support Activities for Rail Transportation.
• Providing support activities for water transportation are classified in Industry Group 4883, Support Activities for Water Transportation.
• Providing support activities for road transportation are classified in Industry Group 4884, Support Activities for Road Transportation.
• Arranging transportation of freight between shippers and carriers are classified in Industry 488510, Freight Transportation Arrangement.
• Providing ridesharing arrangement services and taxicab dispatch services are classified in Industry 485310, Taxi and Ridesharing Services.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 488999

The Census index assigns these 8 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Arrangement of car pools and vanpools (except ridesharing arrangement services)
• Arrangement of nonemergency medical transportation, without providing social assistance services
• Car pools, arrangement of (except ridesharing arrangement services)
• Liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals (liquefaction and regasification)
• Pipeline terminal facilities, independently operated
• Precooling of fruits and vegetables in connection with transportation
• Stockyards (i.e., not for fattening or selling livestock), transportation
• Vanpools, arrangement of (except ridesharing arrangement services)

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 488999

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 488999, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $25 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 0910, 5221, 5223, 5229), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 09100Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extractionUK SIC
• 52211Operation of rail freight terminalsUK SIC
• 52212Operation of rail passenger facilities at railway stationsUK SIC
• 52213Operation of bus and coach passenger facilities at bus and coach stationsUK SIC
• 52219Other service activities incidental to land transportation, n.e.c.UK SIC
• 52230Service activities incidental to air transportationUK SIC
• 52290Other transportation support activitiesUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

• 488991Packing and Crating