Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Rhode Island by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Rhode Island by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 8,326,770 | 100.0 |
| Petroleum products | 6,701,362 | 80.5 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 638,527 | 7.7 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 604,165 | 7.3 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 27,771 | 0.3 |
| Primary metal products | 24,294 | 0.3 |
| Manufactured goods | 17,715 | 0.2 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 13,228 | 0.2 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 2,578 | <0.1 |
| Food and food products | 548 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 296,582 | 3.6 |
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.wrsc.usace.army.mil/ndc/datapdom.htm as of Oct. 30, 2001.