Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to West Virginia by Commodity: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to West Virginia by Commodity: 2000
| Commodity | Short tons | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 27,548,575 | 100.0 |
| Coal, lignite, and coal coke | 16,741,788 | 60.8 |
| Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag | 4,936,719 | 17.9 |
| Petroleum products | 1,963,587 | 7.1 |
| Chemicals excluding fertilizers | 711,416 | 2.6 |
| Primary nonmetal products | 341,542 | 1.2 |
| Primary metal products | 328,123 | 1.2 |
| Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap | 199,652 | 0.7 |
| Non-ferrous ores and scrap | 39,320 | 0.1 |
| Chemical fertilizers | 10,581 | <0.1 |
| Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 | 2,275,847 | 8.3 |
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.wrsc.usace.army.mil/ndc/datapdom.htm as of Oct. 30, 2001.