Below, a description of the types of establishments referred to by NAICS code 488999 will be presented, as well as their classification within the system. This code covers various activities related to supporting the transportation industry, which are not specifically classified in other categories.
Description NAICS Code 488999 – All Other Support Activities for Transportation
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).
NAICS code 488999 includes:
- 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)
NAICS Code 488999 does not include the following references:
- 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; and
- Providing ridesharing arrangement services and taxicab dispatch services–are classified in Industry 485310, Taxi and Ridesharing Services.
