Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to North Carolina by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to North Carolina by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 9,253,169 | 100.0 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 3,041,621 | 32.9 |
| Petroleum products | 1,375,674 | 14.9 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 938,981 | 10.1 |
| Primary metal products | 304,358 | 3.3 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 267,981 | 2.9 |
| Manufactured goods | 209,850 | 2.3 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 161,707 | 1.7 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 140,439 | 1.5 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 97,097 | 1.0 |
| Food and food products | 94,842 | 1.0 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 9 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 2,620,610 | 28.3 |
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.iwr.usace.army.mil/ as of Oct. 30, 2001.