Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Virginia by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Virginia by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 48,756,582 | 100.0 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 22,018,017 | 45.2 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 4,844,711 | 9.9 |
| Petroleum products | 3,539,304 | 7.3 |
| Manufactured goods | 1,766,153 | 3.6 |
| Food and food products | 1,727,632 | 3.5 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 1,483,942 | 3.0 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 1,292,647 | 2.7 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 800,588 | 1.6 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 517,405 | 1.1 |
| Primary metal products | 291,237 | 0.6 |
| Crude petroleum | 152,570 | 0.3 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 63,924 | 0.1 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 44,687 | 0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 10,213,765 | 20.9 |
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.