Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Alabama by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Alabama by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 48,587,783 | 100.0 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 22,852,745 | 47.0 |
| Crude petroleum | 6,219,232 | 12.8 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 3,407,041 | 7.0 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 3,357,705 | 6.9 |
| Food and food products | 2,404,930 | 4.9 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 2,352,337 | 4.8 |
| Primary metal products | 2,235,774 | 4.6 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 2,151,534 | 4.4 |
| Petroleum products | 2,105,990 | 4.3 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 986,733 | 2.0 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 323,964 | 0.7 |
| Manufactured goods | 189,798 | 0.4 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 78,000 | 0.2 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 5,374,118 | 11.1 |
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.