Table 3-12: Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Mississippi by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-12: Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Mississippi by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 14,629,514 | 100.0 |
| Petroleum products | 8,466,367 | 57.9 |
| Food and food products | 2,017,875 | 13.8 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 1,580,990 | 10.8 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 754,071 | 5.2 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 455,149 | 3.1 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 71,852 | 0.5 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 61,147 | 0.4 |
| Manufactured goods | 33,793 | 0.2 |
| Primary metal products | 28,506 | 0.2 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 1,159,764 | 7.9 |
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.