total. Other commodities shipped at the port amounted to 55,482 tons or 9 percent of the total.

California ports received the greater share, approximating 83 percent, of the outbound intercoastal movement with Long Beach, Los Angeles, and San Francisco being the principal destinations. The remaining 17 percent was destined to the Pacific Northwest ports, principally Seattle and Portland. Inbound receipts in the intercoastal trade during 1954 amounted to 230,038 tons. Wood and paper receipts (mostly lumber) totaled 142,061 tons or 62 percent of the total. Vegetable food products (mostly canned vegetables) amounted to 57,404 tons or 25 percent, and normetallic minerals (fuel oil) totaled 18,269 tons or 8 percent. Other commodities that comprised the inbound intercoastal trade at Baltimore amounted to 12,304 tons or 5 percent of the

total.

About 66 percent of the total eastbound intercoastal cargos arriving at Baltimore, originated at lumber ports of the Pacific Northwest while 34 percent originated at California ports.

The leading lumber ports were Coos Bay, Longview, Portland, and Olympia. Oakland and Stockton supplied most of the canned goods.

Non-contiguous Trade. During the year 1954 a total of 422,502 short tons of cargo were exchanged with non-contiguous possessions (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Hawaii) of the United States.

A total of 234,076 tons was shipped from Baltimore consisting principally of metals and manufactures, animal feeds, fertilizers, asphalt, and edible animal products. Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands received about 77 percent of the total outbound movement with only a small amount destined to the Virgin Islands. The remainder, 23 percent, was destined to Hawaii. Principal ports served outbound, included San Juan, Ponce and Mayagues in Puerto Rico and the

Hawaiian ports of Honolulu, Kahului, Hilo, and Port Allen.

Inbound receipts at Baltimore totaled 188,426 tons consisting mostly of bagged sugar and canned fruits. Puerto Rican ports supplied 67 percent of the total with the balance originating at Hawaiian ports.

Internal Trade.--Receipts and shipments between Baltimore and points on Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, and the Delaware River, mostly by barges and small vessels, amounted to slightly more than 2.5 million short tons.

Petroleum pe

troleum products were the predominating commodities received and shipped representing 72% of the total receipts of 1,494,213 tons and 60% of the total shipment of 2,039,233 tons. Numerous other bulk commodities were transported

in this trade in which shipments of sulphuric acid were the next greatest in

volume.

Local Trade.--Movements of commodities within the harbor by barges, lighters and small vessels during 1954, totalled 7,382,618 short tons of which 5,800,629 tons, or 78.5%, was bituminous coal. Next in volume were petroleum products, followed by sulphuric acid, sand, gravel, and crushed rock, and lesser quantities of many other commodities.