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

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Commodity Short tons Percent of total
Total 58,416,588 100.0
Crude petroleum 47,561,766 81.4
Petroleum products 3,853,173 6.6
Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp 2,248,308 3.8
Primary metal products 1,278,338 2.2
Coal, lignite, and coal coke 690,387 1.2
Chemicals excluding fertilizers 661,785 1.1
Food and food products 657,594 1.1
Chemical fertilizers 543,771 0.9
Manufactured goods 427,922 0.7
Primary non-metal products 240,855 0.4
Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag 220,690 0.4
Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap 31,977 0.1
Non-ferrous ores and scrap 22 0.0
Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 2,254,914 3.9

1Domestic includes intrastate shipments.

2To 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.