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Table 3-14: Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Texas by Commodity: 20001

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Commodity Short tons Percent of total
Total 72,375,991 100
Petroleum products 40,033,292 55.3
Chemicals excluding fertilizers 22,326,819 30.8
Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag 3,510,672 4.9
Crude petroleum 2,916,499 4.0
Primary metal products 1,223,629 1.7
Food and food products 812,592 1.1
Chemical fertilizers 621,498 0.9
Primary nonmetal products 397,526 0.5
Manufactured goods 319,737 0.4
Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap 86,073 0.1
Coal, lignite, and coal coke 72,717 0.1
Non-ferrous ores and scrap 54,937 0.1
Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 3,276,880 4.5

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.