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Table 20
Top 20 U.S. Water Ports by Weight
(Millions of tons shipped)
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CSV
| South Louisiana, LA |
1 |
212.6 |
1 |
189.7 |
12.1 |
| Houston, TX |
2 |
185.1 |
2 |
131.5 |
40.7 |
| New York, NY & NJ |
3 |
137.5 |
3 |
126.9 |
8.4 |
| New Orleans, LA |
4 |
85.6 |
6 |
60.9 |
40.6 |
| Beaumont, TX |
5 |
79.1 |
26 |
22.4 |
253.5 |
| Corpus Christi, TX |
6 |
77.6 |
7 |
59.1 |
31.4 |
| Huntington-Tristate, WV-OH-PAa |
7 |
76.7 |
N |
N |
N |
| Long Beach, CA |
8 |
67.6 |
10 |
52.9 |
27.9 |
| Texas City, TX |
9 |
62.3 |
13 |
43.3 |
43.8 |
| Baton Rouge, LA |
10 |
61.4 |
5 |
87.6 |
–29.9 |
| Plaquemine, LA |
11 |
60.7 |
8 |
53.8 |
12.9 |
| Pittsburgh, PA |
12 |
53.0 |
19 |
31.3 |
69.5 |
| Lake Charles, LA |
13 |
52.8 |
15 |
41.2 |
28.1 |
| Los Angeles, CA |
14 |
51.4 |
12 |
47.0 |
9.3 |
| Valdez, AK |
15 |
51.0 |
4 |
99.6 |
–48.8 |
| Mobile, AL |
16 |
48.1 |
14 |
41.3 |
16.4 |
| Philadelphia, PA |
17 |
46.4 |
18 |
37.3 |
24.5 |
| Tampa, FL |
18 |
45.8 |
11 |
49.5 |
–7.6 |
| Baltimore, MD |
19 |
42.1 |
16 |
37.7 |
11.5 |
| Duluth-Superior, MN & WI |
20 |
39.8 |
17 |
37.7 |
5.6 |
| Total top 20b |
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1,459.8 |
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1,250.7 |
16.7 |
a Huntington-Tristate, WV-OH-PA, is a newly defined port since the release of the 1991 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: 1991––U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterborne Commerce of the United States, Calendar Years 1991 and 1992, Part 5, National Summaries (New Orleans, LA: 1993), table 5-2. 2001—U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterborne Commerce of the United States, Calendar Year 2001, Part 5, National Summaries,available at
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/wcsc/wcsc.htm, table 5-2.
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