Table 1-47: Tonnage of Top 50 U.S. Water Ports, Ranked by Total Tonsa
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Table 1-47: Tonnage of Top 50 U.S. Water Ports, Ranked by Total Tonsa
(Millions)
| 2000 | 1990 | 1990-2000 % change |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Total tons | Rank | Total tons | ||
| South Louisiana, LA | 1 | 217.8 | 1 | 194.2 | 12.1 |
| Houston, TX | 2 | 191.4 | 3 | 126.2 | 51.7 |
| New York, NY and NJ | 3 | 138.7 | 2 | 140.0 | -1.0 |
| New Orleans, LA | 4 | 90.8 | 6 | 62.7 | 44.7 |
| Corpus Christi, TX | 5 | 83.1 | 7 | 62.0 | 34.0 |
| Beaumont, TX | 6 | 82.7 | 23 | 26.7 | 209.2 |
| Huntington, WV | 7 | 76.9 | 34 | 17.3 | 344.1 |
| Long Beach, CA | 8 | 70.1 | 10 | 52.4 | 33.8 |
| Baton Rouge, LA | 9 | 65.6 | 5 | 78.1 | -16.0 |
| Texas City, TX | 10 | 61.6 | 12 | 48.1 | 28.1 |
| Plaquemine, LA | 11 | 59.9 | 8 | 56.6 | 5.9 |
| Lake Charles, LA | 12 | 55.5 | 16 | 40.9 | 35.8 |
| Mobile, AL | 13 | 54.2 | 15 | 41.1 | 31.7 |
| Pittsburgh, PA | 14 | 53.9 | 19 | 35.5 | 51.9 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 15 | 48.2 | 13 | 46.4 | 4.0 |
| Valdez, AK | 16 | 48.1 | 4 | 96.0 | -49.9 |
| Tampa, FL | 17 | 46.5 | 11 | 51.6 | -9.9 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 18 | 43.9 | 14 | 41.8 | 4.8 |
| Norfolk Harbor, VA | 19 | 42.4 | 9 | 53.7 | -21.1 |
| Duluth-Superior, MN and WI | 20 | 41.7 | 17 | 40.8 | 2.2 |
| Baltimore, MD | 21 | 40.8 | 18 | 39.5 | 3.3 |
| Portland, OR | 22 | 34.3 | 21 | 27.5 | 25.0 |
| St. Louis, MO and IL | 23 | 33.3 | 22 | 27.1 | 23.0 |
| Freeport, TX | 24 | 31.0 | 40 | 14.5 | 113.8 |
| Portland, ME | 25 | 29.3 | 51 | 10.8 | 172.3 |
| Pascagoula, MS | 26 | 28.7 | 24 | 26.5 | 8.4 |
| Paulsboro, NJ | 27 | 26.9 | 27 | 23.3 | 15.2 |
| Seattle, WA | 28 | 24.2 | 30 | 21.6 | 12.0 |
| Chicago, IL | 29 | 23.9 | 28 | 22.5 | 6.2 |
| Marcus Hook, PA | 30 | 22.6 | 25 | 25.9 | -12.7 |
| Port Everglades, FL | 31 | 22.5 | 42 | 14.1 | 59.1 |
| Tacoma, WA | 32 | 22.3 | 31 | 21.4 | 4.0 |
| Port Arthur, TX | 33 | 21.4 | 20 | 30.7 | -30.3 |
| Charleston, SC | 34 | 21.1 | 54 | 9.7 | 117.3 |
| Boston, MA | 35 | 20.8 | 29 | 21.9 | -5.3 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 36 | 19.7 | 36 | 15.1 | 30.3 |
| Savannah, GA | 37 | 19.7 | 44 | 13.6 | 45.0 |
| Richmond, CA | 38 | 19.5 | 32 | 21.2 | -8.0 |
| Memphis, TN | 39 | 18.3 | 47 | 12.4 | 47.8 |
| Anacortes, WA | 40 | 18.0 | 35 | 15.4 | 17.1 |
| Detroit, MI | 41 | 17.3 | 33 | 17.7 | -2.5 |
| Indiana Harbor, IN | 42 | 16.2 | 37 | 14.7 | 10.3 |
| Honolulu, HI | 43 | 15.8 | 50 | 11.3 | 39.3 |
| Cleveland, OH | 44 | 14.4 | 41 | 14.4 | 0.2 |
| Cincinnati, OH | 45 | 14.3 | 46 | 12.6 | 13.6 |
| Lorain, OH | 46 | 14.2 | 43 | 14.0 | 1.5 |
| San Juan, PR | 47 | 13.9 | 39 | 14.5 | -4.4 |
| Newport News, VA | 48 | 13.8 | 26 | 24.9 | -44.6 |
| Toledo, OH | 49 | 13.3 | 38 | 14.7 | -9.2 |
| Two Harbors, MN | 50 | 13.1 | 48 | 12.3 | 6.2 |
| Total top 50 | 2,217.3 | 1,877.9 | 18.1 | ||
| All ports | 2,461.6 | 2,163.9 | 13.8 | ||
a Tonnage totals include both domestic and foreign waterborne trade.
NOTE: In 1990, Grays Harbor, Washington, ranked 45th (12.8).
SOURCES:
1990: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterborne Commerce of the United States, Calendar Year 1990, Part 5, National Summaries (New Orleans, LA: 1993), table 5-2.
2000: Ibid., Waterborne Commerce of the United States, Calendar Year 2000, Part 5, National Summaries (New Orleans, LA: 2002), tables 1-1 and 5-2.