Table 3-12: Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Louisiana by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-12: Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Louisiana by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 150,677,532 | 100.0 |
| Petroleum products | 57,120,098 | 37.9 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 16,075,074 | 10.7 |
| Primary metal products | 13,941,477 | 9.3 |
| Crude petroleum | 10,978,270 | 7.3 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 8,885,703 | 5.9 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 7,604,230 | 5.0 |
| Manufactured goods | 4,750,654 | 3.2 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 4,633,224 | 3.1 |
| Food and food products | 4,583,538 | 3.0 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 3,958,414 | 2.6 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 3,052,060 | 2.0 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 2,983,463 | 2.0 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 8,000 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 12,103,327 | 8.0 |
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.