When he died in 1923, he left behind "about 500 tons of iron and old junk", valued at about $3000.
This was a 7.3% increase in tonnage over 2007, when 30.8 million tons of foreign commerce, valued at $41.9 billion, flowed through the port.
An estimated 15,700 tons of wood, valued at over $100 million, exist in stockpiles awaiting the next export window.
Marketed exports in 2004 included 44 tons of dried vanilla, valued at nearly $18.8 million, or 47% of agricultural exports.
The annual Swallow harvest is reported to be about 1.4 tons, valued at US$4,000 per kilogram.
By 1904 the Goldfield district produced about 800 tons of ore, valued at $2,300,000, 30% of the state's production that year.
In 2011, the country exported about 637,000 metric tons, valued at US$2.8 billion.
The November figure brought Taiwan's total gold imports to 147.4 tons, valued at $1.81 billion, for the first 11 months of 1989.
Exports totaled 56.6 million metric tons valued at $6.3 billion in 1986.
Last year, Materials for the Arts removed 741 tons of material, valued at just over $4.6 million, from the waste stream, said people in the program.