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IMPORTS ROSE BY INCREASES IN CARGO OF CORK AND WOOD MATERIALS
TONNAGE OF SEABORNE AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL EIGHT PER CENT. AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES,
IMPORTS TONNAGE WERE
SEABORNE RECORDED FOR MANUFACTURES (+103 PER CENT), ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC
NOT MATERIALS, VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL PER
AND CRUDE (+79
CENT)
WERE RECORDED FOR ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+54 PER CENT); BUT DECREASES SEABORNE IMPORTS OF INORGANIC CHEMICALS (-25 PER CENT) AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (-21 PER CENT).
OF
1987,
PETROLEUM,
OF TONNAGE TOTAL THE QUARTER SECOND DURING THE
INCREASED BY 10 SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE-EXPORTS)
EXPORTS TO PER CENT. INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE
PER THAILAND (+153 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA (+150 PER CENT), JAPAN (+86
AND CENT)
PER THE U.S.A. (+23 CENT), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+28 PER
IN INCREASES
TONNAGE WERE CENT). AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES,
OF MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS
TEXTILES (+71 PER NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+126 PER CENT), COTTON
ORES AND PER CENT) AND METALLIFEROUS CENT), CLAY AND KAOLIN (+58
WERE NOTED FOR METAL SCRAP (+36 PER CENT), BUT DECREASES IN TONNAGE SEABORNE EXPORTS OF VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (-57 PER CENT) AND PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (-43 PER CENT).
OF
FROM
INCLUDING TERMS OF SHIPS,
SHIPS, INCOMING THE CARGO DISCHARGED
CENT IN SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 31 PER TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THOSE LOADED ONTO OUTGOING INCLUDING SEABORNE EXPORTS AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 74 PER CONTAINERISED CARGO.
PROPORTION
CENT WAS
26 PER CARGO THE IMPORTS FROM OF SEABORNE
CENT), PER
THE UNITED PER CENT). THE TOTAL THE SECOND
OF QUARTER
IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR
CONTAINERISED IN PARTICULAR, IMPORTS. CENT OF SEABORNE ACCOUNTED FOR A LARGE NETHERLANDS (86 PER CENT), KINGDOM (59 PER CENT) AND TONNAGE OF CONTAINERISED SEABORNE IMPORTS IN 1987 ROSE BY 29 PER CENT OVER THE SAME QUARTER IN 1986.
THE WEST
(77 U.S.A. GERMANY (58
ACCOUNTED AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, CONTAINERISED CARGO
OF ARTIFICIAL FOR, IN TONNAGE TERMS, 95 PER CENT OF SEABORNE IMPORTS
CENT OF 85 PER
TEXTILES OF MAN-MADE RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS,
PAPER PULP, FIBRES, 84 PER CENT OF PAPER, PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES OF
CHEMICAL MATERIALS AND OF PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD AND 83 PER CENT OF PRODUCTS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED.
PER
FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR 72
CARGO CONTAINERISED PARTICULAR, CENT
IN TERMS IN
OF TONNAGE.
THE U.S.A., THE ACCOUNTED FOR ALMOST ALL OF THE SEABORNE EXPORTS TO
THE TOTAL TONNAGE UNITED KINGDOM, WEST GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS.
1987 ROSE OF CONTAINERISED SEABORNE EXPORTS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF BY 33 PER CENT OVER THE SAME QUARTER IN 1986.
/AMONG THE