Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to South Carolina by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to South Carolina by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 15,943,072 | 100.0 |
| Manufactured goods | 2,486,312 | 15.6 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 1,721,187 | 10.8 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 1,621,457 | 10.2 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 1,465,085 | 9.2 |
| Primary metal products | 1,429,890 | 9.0 |
| Petroleum products | 1,055,569 | 6.6 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 982,395 | 6.2 |
| Food and food products | 765,507 | 4.8 |
| Nonferrous ores and scrap | 589,795 | 3.7 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 474,381 | 3.0 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 76,224 | 0.5 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 27,241 | 0.2 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 3,248,029 | 20.4 |
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.