THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1990
ROLL-ON/ROLL-OFF
WERE RECORDED IN VESSELS (+131) AND DRY DECREASES WERE
IN RECORDED
THE
AND
VESSELS
WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES THE NUMBER OF OIL TANKERS (+219), CONTAINER
MAJOR WHILE BULK CARRIERS (+79), NUMBER OF SEMI-CONTAINER VESSELS (-28) (-26).
VESSELS,
MAJOR INCREASES WERE IN CHINA (+236), PANAMA MAJOR DECREASES (-23) AND
WHEN ANALYSED BY FLAG OF RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF SHIPS REGISTERED (+74), SINGAPORE (+19) AND WEST GERMANY (+19), WHILE WERE RECORDED IN THOSE REGISTERED IN JAPAN TAIWAN (-22).
GREECE (-39),
WITH A CAPACITY OF LESS
WHILE THE NUMBER OF
THAN THOSE
THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 199 WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 130.
OUTGOING SHIPS REPRESENTING AN INCREASE NRT (OR 11 PER
IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989, THERE WERE 4,598 WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 28.1 MILLION NRT, OF 321 (OR 8 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 2.7 MILLION CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1988.
TONNAGE OF
ONTO
TOTAL THE
SHIPS CARGO LOADED
OUTGOING CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 12 (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST
PER STAYED IN HONG KONG CENT. ABOUT 69 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.
86 PER CENT IN TRANSHIPMENT CARGO. SHIPS, 63 PER CENT WAS EXPORTS
AND RE-EXPORTS}
37 PER CENT
OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 14 PER CENT WAS OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORT'S TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.
AND
WAS
TONNAGE AFRICA (7
THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (16 PER CENT), JAPAN (16 PER CENT), SOUTH (14 PER CENT), CHINA (12 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (8 PER CENT), TAIWAN PER CENT) AND THE USA (5 PER DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE USA (21 PER CENT), PER CENT), TAIWAN (11 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (5 PER CENT), JAPAN (5 CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (4 PER CENT).
CENT), WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF
(20
PER
CHINA
CHINA (32 PER
TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN AND THE USA (19 PER CENT), AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN CHINA (19 CENT) AND THE USA (14 PER CENT).
CENT)
PER
QUARTER OF COMPARING THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989 WITH THE THIRD
FROM 1988, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS
AND CHINA (+13 PER AUSTRALIA (+71 PER CENT), JAPAN (+48 PER CENT)
DECREASES IN TONNAGE WERE CENT), WHILE MAJOR
NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM SOUTH KOREA (-21 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (-11 PER CENT). A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE BY 6 PER CENT.
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/AMONG THE