Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Mississippi by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Mississippi by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 18,464,137 | 100.0 |
| Petroleum products | 10,381,366 | 56.2 |
| Food and food products | 2,641,759 | 14.3 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 1,642,916 | 8.9 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 950,040 | 5.1 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 914,921 | 5.0 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 343,757 | 1.9 |
| Manufactured goods | 224,174 | 1.2 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 80,304 | 0.4 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 71,852 | 0.4 |
| Primary metal products | 43,799 | 0.2 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 4 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 1,169,245 | 6.3 |
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.