Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Louisiana by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Louisiana by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 258,354,254 | 100.0 |
| Food and food products | 90,647,204 | 35.1 |
| Petroleum products | 69,168,330 | 26.8 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 20,750,313 | 8.0 |
| Primary metal products | 14,097,834 | 5.5 |
| Crude petroleum | 11,628,691 | 4.5 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 8,955,743 | 3.5 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 8,557,750 | 3.3 |
| Manufactured goods | 5,265,948 | 2.0 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 4,681,188 | 1.8 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 4,410,600 | 1.7 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 4,228,392 | 1.6 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 3,113,235 | 1.2 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 684,493 | 0.3 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 12,164,533 | 4.7 |
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.