Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Virginia by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Virginia by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 23,982,503 | 100.0 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 6,952,322 | 29.0 |
| Petroleum products | 4,303,177 | 17.9 |
| Crude petroleum | 2,825,234 | 11.8 |
| Manufactured goods | 2,070,714 | 8.6 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 1,553,066 | 6.5 |
| Food and food products | 1,409,890 | 5.9 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 854,510 | 3.6 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 671,039 | 2.8 |
| Primary metal products | 491,042 | 2.0 |
| Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp | 394,570 | 1.6 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 54,570 | 0.2 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 376 | <0.1 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 182 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 2,401,811 | 10.0 |
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.