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Table 18
Top 20 U.S. Water Ports by Weight
(Millions of tons)
Excel |
CSV
| South Louisiana, LA |
1 |
215.9 |
1 |
194.2 |
11.2 |
| Houston, TX |
2 |
186.6 |
3 |
126.2 |
47.9 |
| New York, NY & NJ |
3 |
137.2 |
2 |
140.0 |
-2.0 |
| New Orleans, LA |
4 |
90.0 |
6 |
62.7 |
43.5 |
| Corpus Christi, TX |
5 |
81.3 |
7 |
62.0 |
31.1 |
| Beaumont, TX |
6 |
76.9 |
23 |
26.7 |
188.0 |
| Huntington-Tristate, WV-OH-PAa |
7 |
76.9 |
N |
N |
N |
| Long Beach, CA |
8 |
69.9 |
10 |
52.4 |
33.4 |
| Baton Rouge, LA |
9 |
65.2 |
5 |
78.1 |
-16.5 |
| Plaquemine, LA |
10 |
59.7 |
8 |
56.6 |
5.5 |
| Texas City, TX |
11 |
58.1 |
12 |
48.1 |
20.8 |
| Pittsburgh, PA |
12 |
53.9 |
19 |
35.5 |
51.8 |
| Mobile, AL |
13 |
53.7 |
15 |
41.1 |
30.7 |
| Lake Charles, LA |
14 |
53.0 |
16 |
40.9 |
29.6 |
| Los Angeles, CA |
15 |
48.1 |
13 |
46.4 |
3.7 |
| Valdez, AK |
16 |
48.1 |
4 |
96.0 |
-49.9 |
| Tampa, FL |
17 |
46.5 |
11 |
51.6 |
-9.9 |
| Norfolk Harbor, VA |
18 |
42.3 |
9 |
53.7 |
-21.2 |
| Duluth-Superior, MN & WI |
19 |
41.7 |
17 |
40.8 |
2.2 |
| Baltimore, MD |
20 |
40.8 |
18 |
39.5 |
3.3 |
| Totalb |
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1468.9 |
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1292.5 |
13.6 |
a Huntington-Tristate, WV-OH-PA, is a newly defined port since the release of the 1990 data.
b For purposes of comparison, Huntington-Tristate, WV-OH-PA, is excluded.
Key: N = data are nonexistent.
Note: See table 18 for top 20 freight gateways by value.
Sources: 1990--U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterborne
Commerce of the United States, Calendar Year 1990, Part 5, National Summaries
(New Orleans, LA: 1993), table 5-2. 2000-U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Waterborne Commerce of the United States, Calendar Year 2000, Part 5,
National Summaries, available at http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/wcsc/wcsc.htm,
table 5-2.
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