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Table 2-10
Top Water Ports for International Trade: 1997
| 1 |
Long Beach, CA |
2,673,199 |
| 2 |
Los Angeles, CA |
2,084,924 |
| 3 |
New York,NY/NJ |
1,738,391 |
| 4 |
Charleston, SC |
955,488 |
| 5 |
Seattle, WA |
953,304 |
| 6 |
Oakland, CA |
843,066 |
| 7 |
Norfolk, VA |
769,718 |
| 8 |
Miami, FL |
623,658 |
| 9 |
Houston, TX |
609,451 |
| 10 |
Tacoma, WA |
551,164 |
| 1 |
Long Beach, CA |
85.3 |
| 2 |
Los Angeles, CA |
73.4 |
| 3 |
New York, NY and NJ |
68.0 |
| 4 |
Houston, TX |
37.1 |
| 5 |
Seattle, WA |
33.6 |
| 6 |
Charleston, SC |
27.3 |
| 7 |
Oakland, CA |
25.4 |
| 8 |
Norfolk, VA |
25.0 |
| 9 |
Tacoma, WA |
19.6 |
| 10 |
Baltimore, MD |
18.8 |
| 1 |
Houston, TX |
102.8 |
| 2 |
South Louisiana, LA |
76.8 |
| 3 |
Corpus Christi, TX |
62.2 |
| 4 |
New York, NY and NJ |
56.7 |
| 5 |
New Orleans, LA |
52.4 |
| 6 |
Baton Rouge, LA |
38.4 |
| 7 |
Long Beach, CA |
38.4 |
| 8 |
Texas City, TX |
37.4 |
| 9 |
Norfolk, VA |
35.4 |
| 10 |
Beaumont, TX |
33.6 |
NOTES: Value data do not include in-transit shipments. Tonnage data, unlike port tonnage data for previous years, do not include in-transit shipments.
SOURCES: TEU data: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, Office of Statistical and Economic Policy, based on data from the Journal of Commerce, Port Import and Export Reporting System (PIERS).
Value data: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, Office of Statistical and Economic Policy, Annual Waterborne Databanks 1996, 1998.
Tonnage data: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Navigation Data Center, special tabulation, December 1998.
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