Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Alabama by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Alabama by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 39,177,204 | 100.0 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 17,083,000 | 43.6 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 4,755,011 | 12.1 |
| Petroleum products | 2,583,592 | 6.6 |
| Crude petroleum | 1,786,412 | 4.6 |
| Food and food products | 1,294,793 | 3.3 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 1,249,717 | 3.2 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 1,024,929 | 2.6 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 786,136 | 2.0 |
| Primary metal products | 660,289 | 1.7 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 318,634 | 0.8 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 133,754 | 0.3 |
| Manufactured goods | 109,934 | 0.3 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 1,691 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 7,389,312 | 18.9 |
1 "Domestic" includes intrastate shipments.
2 To protect confidentiality, if three or more vessel operating companies do not carry a particular commodity from a state of origin to a state of destination, then that commodity is reclassified to "unknown and not elsewhere classified products."
SOURCE FOR DATA ON THIS PAGE: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center, State to State and Region to Region Commodity Tonnages, Public Domain database, available at http://www.wrsc.usace.army.mil/ndc/datapdom.htm as of Oct. 30, 2001.