Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to New Jersey by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to New Jersey by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 67,157,552 | 100.0 |
| Crude petroleum | 18,885,568 | 28.1 |
| Petroleum products | 18,289,552 | 27.2 |
| Food and food products | 4,319,429 | 6.4 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 4,056,569 | 6.0 |
| Manufactured goods | 3,377,692 | 5.0 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 2,264,124 | 3.4 |
| Primary metal products | 1,568,990 | 2.3 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 1,525,819 | 2.3 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 163,893 | 0.2 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 73,215 | 0.1 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 37,498 | <0.1 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 30,619 | <0.1 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 20,282 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 12,544,302 | 18.7 |
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.