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Table 3-11: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments Originating in Washington by Commodity: 20001

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Commodity Short tons Percent of total
Total 67,271,272 100.0
Food and food products 24,151,679 35.9
Petroleum products 20,828,168 31.0
Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp 10,774,189 16.0
Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag 3,895,540 5.8
Manufactured goods 2,329,033 3.5
Chemicals excluding fertilizers 1,671,859 2.5
Primary nonmetal products 1,361,148 2.0
Primary metal products 563,148 0.8
Chemical fertilizers 183,210 0.3
Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap 173,171 0.3
Non-ferrous ores and scrap 105,040 0.2
Crude petroleum 57,504 0.1
Coal, lignite, and coal coke 547 <0.1
Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 1,177,036 1.7

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.