Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Illinois by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Illinois by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 33,072,163 | 100.0 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 9,202,376 | 27.8 |
| Primary metal products | 4,537,296 | 13.7 |
| Petroleum products | 4,339,042 | 13.1 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 3,274,546 | 9.9 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 2,547,738 | 7.7 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 2,393,787 | 7.2 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 1,736,028 | 5.2 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 1,505,443 | 4.6 |
| Food and food products | 915,306 | 2.8 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 384,398 | 1.2 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 195,505 | 0.6 |
| Crude petroleum | 5,718 | <0.1 |
| Manufactured goods | 5,382 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 2,029,598 | 6.1 |
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.