Then you have no other data to support any other contentions.
I have data from the same reports that you submitted, but found on different tables than the ones you directed readers to. Are you claiming that your source is reliable when it supports your arguments, but unreliable when it supports mine?
Additionally, there are the Statistical Abstract numbers, which collaborate the other data. Together they show that New Orleans, far from being some backwater which only saw coastal packet traffic (and 300 steam boat arrivals), was a thriving international seaport--the third busiest in the US by tonnage and to which almost a third of the ships arriving from abroad carried foreign flags. That's my contention, and its amply supported by sources which you originally cited.