Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in North Carolina by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in North Carolina by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 5,547,859 | 100.0 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 2,057,790 | 37.1 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 1,443,113 | 26.0 |
| Petroleum products | 392,521 | 7.1 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 212,217 | 3.8 |
| Food and food products | 107,248 | 1.9 |
| Manufactured goods | 46,239 | 0.8 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 37,712 | 0.7 |
| Primary metal products | 30,000 | 0.5 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 22,009 | 0.4 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 2,978 | <0.1 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 326 | <0.1 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 23 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 1,195,683 | 21.6 |
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.