Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Massachusetts by Commodity: 2000
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Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Massachusetts by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 25,541,673 | 100.0 |
| Petroleum products | 15,358,766 | 60.1 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 1,464,073 | 5.7 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 979,172 | 3.8 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 438,243 | 1.7 |
| Food and food products | 263,751 | 1.0 |
| Manufactured goods | 254,797 | 1.0 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 160,598 | 0.6 |
| Primary metal products | 67,920 | 0.3 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 15,963 | <0.1 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 682 | <0.1 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 172 | <0.1 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 2 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 6,537,534 | 25.6 |
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.