Table 3-14: Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Mississippi by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-14: Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Mississippi by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 11,518,753 | 100.0 |
| Petroleum products | 2,992,298 | 26.0 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 1,749,424 | 15.2 |
| Crude petroleum | 1,304,509 | 11.3 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 900,334 | 7.8 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 358,836 | 3.1 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 322,472 | 2.8 |
| Food and food products | 285,782 | 2.5 |
| Primary metal products | 69,953 | 0.6 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 49,284 | 0.4 |
| Manufactured goods | 17,157 | 0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 3,468,704 | 30.1 |
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.