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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1985
IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1985, THERE WERE 3 304 OUTGOING SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 18.8 MILLION NRT. REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 395 IN NUMBER AND OF 12 PER CENT IN CAPACITY OVER THE SAME QUARTER OF 1984. THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED IN HONG KONG ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS ROSE BY 15 PER CENT, AND THE NUMBER OF CONTAINERS (MEASURED IN TEUS) LOADED IN HONG KONG ROSE BY 10 PER CENT. ABOUT 67 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING VESSELS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.
BASED ON INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM OCEAN CARGO MANIFESTS, 89 PER CENT IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT OF THE INWARD SEABORNE CARGO WAS IMPORTS AND 11 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 IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT WERE JAPAN (18 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (14 PER CENT), TAIWAN (11 PER CENT) AND THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA (11 PER CENT), AND THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE CHINA (25 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (20 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (12 PER CENT). TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN THE U.S.A. (36 PER CENT) AND CHINA (26 PER CENT), AND TRANSHIPPED TO CHINA (21 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (14 PER CENT).
COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1985 WITH THE SAME QUARTER OF 1984, INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR IMPORTS FROM SOUTH KOREA (+120 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA (+88 PER CENT),
ON THE OTHER TAIWAN (+32 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+24 PER CENT). HAND, DECLINES WERE NOTED FOR IMPORTS FROM CHINA (-31 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (FOUR PER CENT).
AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 13 PER CENT. AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, INCREASES IN CARGO TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR THE IMPORTS OF INORGANIC CHEMICALS (+241 PER CENT), IRON AND STEEL (+50 PER CENT) AND CEMENT AND CEMENT CLINKER (+47 PER CENT). HOWEVER, A DECREASE WAS NOTED FOR IMPORTS OF CEREALS AND CEREAL PREPARATIONS (-28 PER CENT).
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE TONNAGE OF TOTAL SEABORNE EXPORTS INCREASED BY 12 PER CENT. INCREASE IN TONNAGE WAS RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO CHINA (+326 PER CENT), BUT DECREASES WERE NOTED FOR THOSE TO JAPAN (-14 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (-SIX PER CENT). AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, INCREASES IN CARGO TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR EXPORTS OF INORGANIC CHEMICALS (+811 PER CENT) AND CEMENT AND CEMENT CLINKER (+165 PER CENT), BUT A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR THE EXPORTS OF METALL IFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (-14 PER CENT).
SHIPPING STATISTICS ARE COMP ILED PRIMARILY FROM GENERAL DECLARATIONS SUBMITTED TO THE MARINE DEPARTMENT BY SHIPOWNERS OR AUTHORISED SHIPPING AGENTS, AND COVER ALL OCEAN-GOING VESSELS ENTERING AND LEAVING HONG KONG, EXCLUDING YACHTS AND PLEASURE CRAFT.
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