Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services

Rail transport 
covers transport by trains. 
3.60. 
Road transport 
covers international freight 
transport by lorries and trucks and international 
passenger transportation by buses and coaches. 
3.61. 
Inland waterway transport 
relates to 
international transportation on rivers, canals and lakes. 
Included are waterways that are internal to one country 
and those that are shared among two or more countries. 
3.62. 
Pipeline transport and electricity transmission 
covers international transport of goods in pipelines. Also 
included are charges for the transmission of electricity 
when this is separate from the production and 
distribution process. The provision of electricity itself is 
excluded, as is the provision of petroleum and related 

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products, water and other goods supplied through 
pipelines. Also excluded are distribution services of 
electricity, water, gas and other petroleum products 
(included in other business services). 
3.63. 
Other supporting and auxiliary transport 
services
covers all other transportation services that 
cannot be allocated to any of the components of 
transportation services described above. 
3.64. EBOPS and BPM5 distinguish the same 
breakdown into kinds of transportation service. 
3.65. 
Passenger services
covers all services provided 
between the compiling economy and abroad or between 
two foreign economies in the international transportation 
of non-residents by resident carriers (credit) and that of 
residents by non-resident carriers (debit). Included in 
passenger services are those passenger services 
performed within an economy by non-resident carriers; 
fares that are a part of package tours; charges for excess 
baggage, vehicles, or other personal accompanying 
effects; and expenditures for food, drink, or other items 
that passengers make while on board carriers. Also 
included in passenger services are rentals provided by 
residents to non-residents, and vice versa, of vessels, 
aircraft, coaches or other commercial vehicles with 
crews for limited periods (such as a single voyage) for 
the carriage of passengers. 
3.66. Excluded are passenger services provided to non-
residents by resident carriers within the resident 
economies (included in 
travel services
), cruise fares 
(included in 
travel services
), rentals or charters that are 
financial leases (not included in EBOPS), and time 
charters without crew (included in 
operational leasing 
services
). 
3.67.