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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1988
1987 SHIPPING, PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED
NET REGISTERED TONS
CAPACITY
OF 90.0 MILLION AN KONG,
REPRESENTING OF 7.6 MILLION NRT ACCORDING TO THE HONG KONG BY THE CENSUS
IN 1987, 14,876 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL
(NRT)
IN ARRIVED
HONG INCREASE OF 1,116 (OR 8 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND (OR 9 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER 1986, SHIPPING STATISTICS REPORT PUBLISHED TODAY (THURSDAY) AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
IN
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED
A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 11 PER CENT.
INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+769), DRY BULK CARRIERS (140) AND SEMI- CONTAINER VESSELS (+57), WHILE DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN OF CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (-112) AND OIL TANKERS (-19).
INCREASES IN NUMBER
WERE RECORDED
THE NUMBER
FOR SHIPS
IN REGISTERED AND WEST GERMANY (+69), CHINA (+419), PANAMA (+339), LIBERIA (+85)
(-108) BUT DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN THE U.S.A. AND SOUTH KOREA (-40).
THE NUMBER OF
WITH SHIPS
A CAPACITY OF
LRSS THAN
10,000
DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASEED (+543).
IN
1987, THERE WERE 14,853
ᎨᏒᎢ . MILLION CAPACITY OF 90.0 (OR 8 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF CAPACITY OVER 1986.
OUTGOING
SHIPS WITH A
AN REPRESENTING
INCREASE OF 7.6 MILLION NRT (OR 9 PER CENT)
TOTAL
1,092
IN
THE
TOTAL
TONNAGE
OF
CARGO
SHIPS LOADED ONTO OUTGOING CONSIGNMENTS} ROSE BY 18 PER (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST 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, TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 16 PER CENT WAS OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING
{ INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.
84 PER CENT IN TRANSHIPMENT CARGO. SHIPS, 56 PER CENT WAS EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 44 PER
CENT
WAS
THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE
(15 PER CENT), CHINA (13 TERMS WERE SINGAPORE ( PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (10 PER CENT), SOUTH AFRICA TAIWAN (9 PER CENT).
PER
IMPORTS IN
JAPAN CENT), (10 PER CENT)
TONNAGE
(13
AND
THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE U.S.A. (21 PER CENT), TAIWAN (11 PER CENT), CHINA (9 PER CENT), (7 PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (6 PER CENT).
/TRANSHIPMENT CARGO
THE
JAPAN