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Table 3-12: Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Texas by Commodity: 20001

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Commodity Short tons Percent of total
Total 101,222,906 100.0
Petroleum products 58,022,965 57.3
Chemicals excluding fertilizers 32,523,950 32.1
Crude petroleum 3,627,402 3.6
Unknown and not elsewhere classified products 2,886,476 2.9
Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag 2,719,242 2.7
Primary nonmetal products 468,266 0.5
Manufactured goods 356,431 0.4
Food and food products 238,574 0.2
Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap 212,239 0.2
Chemical fertilizers 135,998 0.1
Primary nonmetal products 19,093 <.1
Coal, lignite, and coal coke 12,270 <.1

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.