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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1985
THIRD QUARTER SHIPPING STATISTICS RELEASED
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IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1984, 2 937 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 17.4 MILLION NRT (NET REGISTERED TONS) ARRIVED IN HONG KONG, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 116 IN NUMBER AND OF 0.2 PER CENT IN CAPACITY OVER THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1983, ACCORDING TO THE HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS+ REPORT PUBLISHED TODAY (SUNDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED IN HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS ROSE BY SEVEN PER CENT AND THE NUMBER OF CONTAINERS (MEASURED IN TEUS) DISCHARGED IN HONG KONG ROSE BY 13 PER CENT. WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, NOTABLE INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+71) AND ROLL- W!/ROLL-OFF VESSELS (+37), WHILE THE NUMBER OF CONVENTIONAL VESSELS DROPPED (-118). CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN NUMBER WERE OTED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN PANAMA (+90) AND IN CHINA (+34),
DECLINES WERE RECORDED FOR LIBERIAN SHIPS (-26) AND SINGAPOREAN SHIPS (-26), THE NUMBER OF SHIPS WITH CAPACITY UNDER 10 000 DWT
DE CONSIDERABLY (+148).
IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1984, THERE WERE 2 950 DEPARTING SHIPS, A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 17.4 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 141 IN NUMBER AND OF ONE PER CENT IN CAPACITY OVER THE SAME QUARTER IN 1983. THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS ROSE BY 18 PER CENT, AND THE NUMBER OF CONTAINERS (LASURED IN TEUS) LOADED IN HONG KONG ALSO ROSE BY 16 PER CENT.
OUT 66 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING VESSELS HAD STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.
BASED ON INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM OCEAN CARGO MANIFESTS, 90 PER CENT IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT OF THE INWARD SEABORNE CARGO WAS IMPORTS AND 10 PER CENT WAS FOR TRANSHIPMENT. OF THE OUTWARD SEABORNE CARGO, 61 PER CENT WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING RE-EXPORTS) AND 39 PER CENT WAS FOR TRANSHIPMENT.
THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS WERE SINGAPORE (20 PER CENT IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT), JAPAN (17 PER CENT) AND CHINA (13 PER CENT), AND THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE U.S.A. (23 PER CENT), CHINA (14 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (12 PER CENT). TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED FROM CHINA (30 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (26 PER CENT), AND TRANSHIPPED TO THE U.S.A. (16 PER CENT), PHILIPPINES (EIGHT PER CENT) AND CHINA (SEVEN PER CENT).
COMPARING THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1984 WITH THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1983, SIGNIFICANT INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS FROM THE
IPPINES (+276 PER CENT IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT), REPUBLIC OF CA (+84 PER CENT) AND REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA (+79 PER CENT). EVER, THE TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM U.S.A. DECLINED 15 PER CENT). AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED IN THE IMPORTS OF INORGANIC CHEMICALS (+72 PER CENT); MISCELLANEOUS EDIBLE PRODUCTS AND PREPAP TIONS (+66 PER CENT) 1 AND PAPER, PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD (+34 PER CENT).
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