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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1989
TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN
CHINA
(31
PER
AND THE USA (21 PER CENT), AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN CHINA (19 CENT AND THE USA (13 PER CENT).
CENT) PER
THE SECOND QUARTER SEABORNE IMPORTS SINGAPORE (+16
COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989 WITH OF 1988, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR FROM AUSTRALIA (+41 PER CENT), JAPAN (+20 PER CENT), PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (+13 PER CENT): TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM BRAZIL TAIWAN (-18 PER CENT) AND CHINA (-11 PER CENT).
WHILE MAJOR DECREASES IN
(-19 PER CENT),
IMPORTS ROSE INCREASES IN
BY 3
CARGO
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AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE PER CENT, AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, MAJOR TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF TEXTILE FIBRES PER CENT), CEREALS AND
PREPARATIONS (+26 MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS, NOT ELSEWHERE CENT) AND TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD, ALL KINDS
CEREAL
PER CENT), SPECIFIED (+16 PER WHILE (+15 PER CENT);
TIMBER MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF LOGS AND (-27 PER CENT), ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS (-24 PER CENT) AND IRON AND STEEL (-22 PER CENT).
THE SECOND
QUARTER
COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989 WITH OF 1988, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS RE-EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 15 PER CENT.
PLUS
SEABORNE EXPORTS
MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR TO CHINA(+50 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+22 PER CENT), THE USA (+21 PER CENT) WERE RECORDED AND WEST GERMANY (+16 PER CENT); WHILE MAJOR DECREASES
AND SINGAPORE (-5 PER FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO JAPAN (-13 PER CENT} CENT).
MAJOR INCREASES
AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES,
IN TONNAGE PRODUCTS AND WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM
AND KAOLIN (+52 PER CENT), RELATED MATERIALS (+63 PER CENT), CLAY
AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF METAL
NON-METALLIC MINERALS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+35 PER CENT) AND COTTON GARMENTS (+30 PER CENT);
A WHILE
MAJOR DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR
EXPORTS SEABORNE VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (-24 PER CENT).
SHIPS, INCOMING
OF
INCLUDING
OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 34 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THOSE LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, INCLUDING SEABORNE EXPORTS AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 78 PER CENT CONTAINERISED CARGO.
WAS
28 PER IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR CENT
CARGO OF SEABORNE
CONTAINERISED IMPORTS. IN PARTICULAR,
FROM ITALY (99 ACCOUNTED FOR A LARGE PROPORTION OF SEABORNE IMPORTS
PER CENT) AND PER CENT), THE USA (85 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (78 WEST GERMANY (75 PER CENT).
THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF
CONTAINERISED SEABORNE IMPORTS SECOND QUARTER OF 1989 ROSE BY 12 PER CENT OVER THE SECOND QUARTER 1988.
IN
THE
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