Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Mississippi by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Mississippi by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 28,133,169 | 100.0 |
| Crude petroleum | 14,819,170 | 52.7 |
| Petroleum products | 3,209,726 | 11.4 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 1,749,751 | 6.2 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 1,524,254 | 5.4 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 1,215,430 | 4.3 |
| Food and food products | 938,532 | 3.3 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 387,102 | 1.4 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 291,485 | 1.0 |
| Manufactured goods | 202,786 | 0.7 |
| Primary metal products | 142,394 | 0.5 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 131,465 | 0.5 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 50,930 | 0.2 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 3,470,144 | 12.3 |
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.