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AS A WHOLE, PER CENT.
THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE
BY 12
AMONG THE PRINCIPAL
RECORDED WERE
OF
COMMODITIES, SEABORNE NON-METALLIC
MAJOR INCREASES IN CARGO
OF IMPORTS
MISCELLANEOUS FOR TONNAGE
NOT ELSEWHERE MINERALS, AND MANUFACTURES
METAL SPECIFIRD (+36 PER CENT), OTHER MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS, NOT (+29 ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+32 PER CENT) AND COAL, COKE AND BRIQUETTES
IMPORTS OF PER CENT); WHILE A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR SEABORNE PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (-5 PER CENT),
OF
COMPARING THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1988 WITH THE FOURTH QUARTER
EXPORTS PLUS 1987, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC RE-EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 26 PER CENT.
то
EXPORTS MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE
INDONESIA (+28 PER CHINA (+105 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+47 PER CENT),
AND THE CENT), THAILAND (+26 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (+22 PER CENT};
RECORDED FOR SEABORNE U.S.A. (+20 PER CENT); WHILE A DECREASE WAS EXPORTS TO JAPAN (-11 PER CENT).
IN TONNAGE AND
AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, MAJOR INCREASES WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS RELATED MATERIALS (+221 PER CENT), IRON AND STEEL (+84 PER CENT), CLAY METAL AND AND KAOLIN (+75 PER CENT). MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF
(+49 PER CENT), SPECIFIED MINERALS, NON-METALLIC
AND MISCELLANEOUS METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (+28 PER CENT) EDIBLE PRODUCTS AND PREPARATIONS (+28 PER CENT).
NOT ELSEWHERE
OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, INCLUDING SEABORNE WAS IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 34 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE
INCLUDING CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THOSE LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS,
CENT WAS AND EXPORTS
TRANSHIPMENT, 75 PER OUTWARD SEABORNE CONTAINERISED CARGO.
PER
IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR 28
CARGO CONTAINERISED IN PARTICULAR, IMPORTS. CENT OF SEABORNE ACCOUNTED FOR ALL OR A LARGE PROPORTION OF SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM ITALY (100 PER CENT). THE NETHERLANDS (89 PER CENT), WEST GERMANY CENT), THE U.S.A. (73 PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (70 PER
(74 PER
CENT).
OF
IMPORTS IN THE THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CONTAINERISED SEABORNE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1988 ROSE BY 14 PER CENT OVER THE FOURTH QUARTER 1987.
ELECTRICAL
ACCOUNTED AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, CONTAINERISED CARGO
SEABORNE IMPORTS OF OTHER FOR, IN TONNAGE TERMS, 93 PER CENT OF
91 PER CENT OF AND PARTS, AND
APPLIANCES ELECTRONIC
CENT OF PAPER, MATERIALS, 88 PER ARTIFICIAL
AND PLASTIC RESINS PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD, PER CENT OF TEXTILE FIBRES AND 77 PER CENT OF NON FERROUS METALS.
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