FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1987
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FIRST QUARTER SHIPPING, PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED
IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1987, 3,520 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 21.2 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRIVED IN HONG KONG, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 312 (OR 10 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 11 PER CENT IN CAPACITY OVER THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1986, ACCORDING TO THE 'HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS REPORT' PUBLISHED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
DURING THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED IN HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 18 PER CENT.
WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+164) AND OIL TANKERS (+43), WHILE A DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF ROLL-ON/ROLL-OFF VESSELS (-18).
INCREASES IN NUMBER WERE RECORDED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN PANAMA (+153) AND CHINA (+106), BUT DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN THE U.S.A. (-22) AND SOUTH KOREA (-18). THE NUMBER OF SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY OF LESS THAN 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED (+149).
IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1987, THERE WERE 3,532 OUTGOING SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 21.3 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 308 (OR 10 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 11 PER CENT IN CAPACITY OVER THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1986. THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ON ΤΟ OUTGOING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 30 PER CENT. ABOUT 66 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.
OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 83 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 17 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO. OF THE CARGO LOADED ON TO OUTGOING SHIPS, 52 PER CENT WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 48 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.
THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TONNAGE TERMS WERE CHINA (16 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (15 PER CENT), JAPAN (13 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (10 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (10 PER CENT), WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE (20 PER CENT), TAIWAN (12 PER CENT), CHINA (8 PER CENT) AND (8 PER CENT).
TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA (29 AND THE U.S.A. (16 PER CENT); AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (14 PER CENT).
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PER CENT) CHINA (20
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