Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Massachusetts by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Massachusetts by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 3,020,154 | 100.0 |
| Petroleum products | 1,019,416 | 33.8 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 284,895 | 9.4 |
| Primary metal products | 154,012 | 5.1 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 83,857 | 2.8 |
| Food and food products | 35,364 | 1.2 |
| Manufactured goods | 27,656 | 0.9 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 11,130 | 0.4 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 8,970 | 0.3 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 372 | <0.1 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 279 | <0.1 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 59 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 1,394,144 | 46.2 |
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.iwr.usace.army.mil/ as of Oct. 30, 2001.