Table 3-14: Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Louisiana by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-14: Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Louisiana by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 170,009,251 | 100.0 |
| Food and food products | 76,618,662 | 45.1 |
| Petroleum products | 28,605,814 | 16.8 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 18,288,152 | 10.8 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 14,766,389 | 8.7 |
| Crude petroleum | 12,339,622 | 7.3 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 9,197,618 | 5.4 |
| Manufactured goods | 3,661,777 | 2.2 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 1,384,399 | 0.8 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 641,658 | 0.4 |
| Primary metal products | 551,333 | 0.3 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 308,064 | 0.2 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 72,209 | <0.1 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 1,013 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 3,572,541 | 2.1 |
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.