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

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Commodity Short tons Percent of total
Total 42,277,568 100.0
Coal, lignite, and coal coke 26,056,307 61.6
Petroleum products 7,665,227 18.1
Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag 3,524,425 8.3
Chemicals excluding fertilizers 2,165,408 5.1
Primary metal products 480,018 1.1
Primary nonmetal products 338,393 0.8
Manufactured goods 81,712 0.2
Non-ferrous ores and scrap 51,708 0.1
Food and food products 40,641 <0.1
Iron ore, iron, and steel waste and scrap 34,962 <0.1
Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp 24,634 <0.1
Chemical fertilizers 211 <0.1
Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 1,813,922 4.3

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.



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