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Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Texas by Commodity: 20001

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Commodity Short tons Percent of total
Total 356,962,823 100
Crude petroleum 216,057,844 60.5
Petroleum products 74,220,481 20.8
Chemicals excluding fertilizers 29,511,679 8.3
Primary metal products 9,196,008 2.6
Non-ferrous ores and scrap 8,738,297 2.4
Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag 7,782,341 2.2
Primary nonmetal products 4,892,285 1.4
Food and food products 2,855,293 0.8
Manufactured goods 1,815,858 0.5
Chemical fertilizers 1,188,504 0.3
Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp 415,909 0.1
Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap 212,154 0.1
Coal, lignite, and coal coke 76,170 <.1
Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 3,484,085 1.0

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.wrsc.usace.army.mil/ndc/datapdom.htm as of Oct. 30, 2001.