It handles more containers than Los Angeles and Long Beach combined, and three times as much as New York and New Jersey. Not surprisingly, trade, transportation and utilities activities are the largest single employer sector in the Chicago Tri-State metro-region, accounting for 23.1% of total employment in 2010 (Table 1.2). This sector includes air and ground passenger transportation as well as goods’ transportation services for which the Chicago Tri-State metro-region’s employment level and share of the US total have been growing over the past ten years.