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Table 3-13: Foreign and Domestic Waterborne Shipments to Mississippi by Commodity: 20001

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Commodity Short tons Percent of total
Total 28,133,169 100.0
Crude petroleum 14,819,170 52.7
Petroleum products 3,209,726 11.4
Sand, gravel, shells, clay, salt, and slag 1,749,751 6.2
Chemical fertilizers 1,524,254 5.4
Chemicals excluding fertilizers 1,215,430 4.3
Food and food products 938,532 3.3
Lumber, logs, wood chips, and pulp 387,102 1.4
Non-ferrous ores and scrap 291,485 1.0
Manufactured goods 202,786 0.7
Primary metal products 142,394 0.5
Coal, lignite, and coal coke 131,465 0.5
Primary nonmetal products 50,930 0.2
Unknown and not elsewhere classified products2 3,470,144 12.3

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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