Crushed stone: Movement
How Norway's seaside quarries ship stone abroad
How Norway's seaside quarries ship stone abroad What this tab covers How it flows between countries: the largest bilateral trade routes drawn on a world map, 2024 UN Comtrade export and import values with the top exporters and importers by share, plus shipping routes, chokepoints and trade restrictions.Comtrade covers pebbles, gravel and crushed stone under HS 2517, worth $2.7 billion of exports in 2024. That is tiny beside the tonnage mined. Norway leads with 11%, from coastal quarries that load ships directly, followed by China (10%) and Germany (9%). The United States is the top importer (11%), then the Netherlands (9%) and Singapore (9%), which lacks quarry rock. US imports came mainly from Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas and Honduras in 2021–24. Seaborne trade works only where quarries sit on deep water.
Where it is exported from and imported to, 2024
Chart: World map of the largest trade flows
Exporter (size = share of world exports) Importer (share of world imports) Shipping chokepoint UN Comtrade 2024. Bubbles: shares of reported world exports and imports for the main traded form. Country-to-country route lines are not available for this commodity yet. Hover a circle for values.