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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1987
THE NUMBER OF SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY OF (DEADWEIGHT TONS) INCREASED (+261).
LESS THAN 10,000 DWT
IN 1986, THERE WERE 13.761 OUTGOING SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 82.4 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 714 (OR 5 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 8 PEF CENT IN CAPACITY OVER 1985. THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ON TO OUTGOING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 23 PER CENT. ABOUT 65 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.
OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 86 PER (ENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 14 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO,
OF THE CARGO LOADED ON TO
OUTGOING SHIPS, 57 PER CENT WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 43 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.
THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TONNAGE TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (16 PER CENT), JAPAN (14 PER CENT), CHINA (12 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA (10 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (10 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (9 PER CENT), WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE U.S.A. (20 PER (ENT), CHINA (15 PER CENT), TAIWAN (12 PER CFT), SINGAPORE (6 PER CENT} AND INDONESIA (6 PER CENT).
TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA (31 AND THE U.S.A. (16 PER CENT); AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (13 PER CENT).
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COMPARING 1986 WITH 1985, INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+61 PER CENT), CHINA (+43 PER CENT), THAILAND (+33 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (+32 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+31 PER CENT), AND THE U.S.A. (+13 PER CENT); BUT A DECREASE IN TONNAGE WAS NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM JAPAN (-9 PER CENT).
AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF IMPORTS ROSE BY 18 PER CENT. AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, INCREASES IN CARGO TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR THE SEABORNE IMPORTS OF CHEMICAL MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+47 PER CENT), MISCELLANEOUS EDIBLE PRODUCTS AND PREPARATIONS (+46 PER CENT) AND ORGANIC CHEMICALS (+40 PER CENT): BUT A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR THE SEABORNE IMPORTS OF NON-FERROUS METALS (-13 PER CENT).
DURING 1986, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE-EXPORTS} INCREASED BY 23 PER CENT. INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE REGISTERED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS ΤΟ INDONESIA (+63 PER CENT), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+60 PER CENT) SINGAPORE (+49 PER CENT), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+24 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (+22 PER CENT); BUT A DECREASE WAS REGISTERED FOR SEABORIE EXPORTS TO CHINA - PER CENT).
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