Table 3-14: Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Alabama by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-14: Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Alabama by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 30,647,115 | 100.0 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 16,876,535 | 55.1 |
| Food and food products | 2,389,204 | 7.8 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 2,207,396 | 7.2 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 2,166,841 | 7.1 |
| Petroleum products | 2,046,909 | 6.7 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 1,730,600 | 5.6 |
| Primary metal products | 1,667,581 | 5.4 |
| Crude petroleum | 916,242 | 3.0 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 289,765 | 0.9 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 232,280 | 0.8 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 77,841 | 0.3 |
| Manufactured goods | 45,921 | 0.1 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 31,137 | 0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 5,364,084 | 17.5 |
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.