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COMPARING THÊ FIRST QUARTER OF 1987 WITH THE 'SAME QUARTER IN 1986, INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM CANADA (+390 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA (+100 PER CENT), CHINA (+87 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+42 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+30 PER CENT); BUT DECREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM THE U.S.A. (-34 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (-11 PER CENT).
AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE BY 17 PER CENT. AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, INCREASES IN CARGO TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF CORK AND WOOD MANUFACTURES (+87 PER CENT), ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS (+50 PER CENT) AND PAPER, PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD (+44 PER CENT); BUT A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF IRON AND STEEL (-8 PER CENT).
DURING THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1987, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE-EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 34 PER CENT. INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO THAILAND (+160 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA (+127 PER CENT),
(+53 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (+52 PER CENT).
WEST GERMANY
AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, INCREASES IN
TONNAGE WERB NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (+331 PER CENT), MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+156 PER CENT) AND INORGANIC CHEMICALS (+137 PER CENT), BUT A DECREASE IN TONNAGE WAS NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (-29 PER CENT).
STARTING FROM THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1987. THE CRNBUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT HAS ALSO COMPILED STATISTICS FOR SEABORNE CARGO CARRIED IN CONTAINERS (OR CONTAINERISED CARGO).
INCLUDING
OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 31 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THOSE LOADED ON TO OUTGOING SHIPS, INCLUDING SEABORNE EXPORTS AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 74 PER CENT WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO.
IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR 24 PER CENT OF SEABORNE IMPORTS. IN PARTICULAR, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR A LARGE PROPORTION OF SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM THE U.S.A. (94 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (87 PER CENT), WEST GERMANY (74 PER CENT) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (66 PER CENT). THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CONTAINERISED SEABORNE IMPORTS IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1987 ROSE BY 30 PER CENT OVER THE SAME QUARTER IN 1986.
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