THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1989
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3RD QUARTER SHIPPING, PORT, CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED
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THIRD QUARTER OF
IN THE
1988, 4,276 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL
(NRT) ARRIVED IN CAPACITY OF 25.3 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS
HONG NUMBER AND KONG, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 502 (OR 13 PER CENT) IN
11 PER OF 2.5 MILLION NRT (OR
CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1987.
JULY
THIS IS SHOWN IN THE HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS REPORT
1988 SEPTEMBER
PUBLISHED TODAY (THURSDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
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IN
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 19 PER CENT.
WERE
RECORDED IN
WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+245) AND OIL TANKERS (+170), WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF DRY BULK CARRIERS (-24) AND CHEMICAL CARRIERS/TANKERS (-15).
WHEN ANALYSED BY FLAG OF VESSELS, MAJOR INCREASES IN NUMBER AND WERE RECORDED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+145), PANAMA (+119) TAIWAN (+47), WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN DENMARK (-401 AND JAPAN (-7).
WITH THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS
A CAPACITY OF LESS THAN 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 311 WHILE THE NUMBER OF THOSE WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 191.
IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1988, THERE WERE 4, 277 OUTGOING SHIPS
REPRESENTING AN WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 25.4 MILLION NRT,
INCREASE IN NUMBER AND OF 2.7 MILLION NRT FOR 12 OF 527 (OR 14 PER CENT) CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1987.
PER
THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS
CONSIGNMENTS › ROSE BY (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CENT. ABOUT 66 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.
23 PER IN HONG KONG
OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS,
84 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 16 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.
SHIPS, 60 OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING
PER CENT WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS
AND 40 PER CENT WAS
TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.
AND RE-EXPORTS 1
THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TONNAGE JAPAN TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (18 PER CENT), SOUTH AFRICA (16 PER CENT), (12 PER CENT), CHINA (11 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (8 PER CENT).
THE
THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE U.S.A. (20 PER CENT), CHINA (13 PER CENT), TAIWAN (12 PER CENT), JAPAN 16 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (5 PER CENT).
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