Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Louisiana by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Louisiana by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 293,939,229 | 100.0 |
| Crude petroleum | 79,192,354 | 26.9 |
| Food and food products | 78,005,839 | 26.5 |
| Petroleum products | 43,111,811 | 14.7 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 20,045,989 | 6.8 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 19,398,059 | 6.6 |
| Primary metal products | 14,113,950 | 4.8 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 12,876,821 | 4.4 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 6,151,066 | 2.1 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 4,542,822 | 1.5 |
| Manufactured goods | 4,287,479 | 1.5 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 4,021,823 | 1.4 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 3,911,390 | 1.3 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 683,901 | 0.2 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 3,595,925 | 1.2 |
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.