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TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA (32 PER CENT) AND CHINA {19 PER THE
(18 PER CENT), AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN USA CENT) AND THE USA (13 PER CENT).
COMPARING 1989 WITH 1988, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED PER FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM ECUADOR (+38 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (+21
MAJOR CENT), JAPAN (+19 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+19 PER CENT), WHILE
IMPORTS FROM BRAZIL DECREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE (-26 PER CENT), WEST GERMANY (-15 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (-10 PER CENT). CENT. AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE BY 5 PER
IN
CARGO
AMONG THE
COMMODITIES, MAJOR PRINCIPAL
INCREASES TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF TEXTILE FIBRES (+32 PER PER CENT),
(+26 PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS
MAJOR CENT) AND CEREALS AND CEREAL PREPARATIONS (+18 PER CENT), WHILE
STEEL (-21 DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF IRON AND PER CENT) AND LOGS AND TIMBER (-20 PER CENT).
+
CENT),
COMPARING 1989 WITH 1988, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS CENT. MAJOR (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE-EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 15 PER INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO CHINA PER CENT), THE PHILIPPINES (+32 PER CENT), THE USA (+25 PER AUSTRALIA (+19 PER CENT) AND THE NETHERLANDS (+18 PER CENT), WHILE MAJOR DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO SOUTH PER CENT).
THE AMONG
(+50
A
KOREA (-8
TONNAGE
AND
AND
OF
IN PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, MAJOR INCREASES WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS CLAY RELATED MATERIALS (+83 PER CENT), FOOTWEAR (+39 PER CENT), KAOLIN (+27 PER CENT), COTTON GARMENTS (+25 PER CENT) AND GARMENTS MIXED MATERIALS OR OTHER MATERIALS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+24
WHILE CENT),
EXPORTS A MAJOR DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR SEABORNE PULP AND WASTE PAPER (-7 PER CENT).
PER
OF
OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, INCLUDING SEABORNE WAS IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 33 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE
INCLUDING CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THOSE LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, SEABORNE EXPORTS CONTAINERISED CARGO.
IN OF
CENT ACCOUNTED
AND
OUTWARD
TRANSHIPMENT,
77
PER
CENT
WAS
PER
CARGO
TERMS OF TONNAGE, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR 27 SEABORNE IMPORTS.
CONTAINERISED PARTICULAR, IN FOR A LARGE PROPORTION OF SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM ITALY (99 PER CENT), THE UNITED PER CENT), FRANCE (98 PER CENT), THE USA (82 KINGDOM (81 PER CENT) AND THE NETHERLANDS (80 PER CENT).
THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CONTAINERISED SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE BY 6 PER CENT OVER 1988.
IN 1989
ACCOUNTED ARTIFICIAL
ELECTRICAL OTHER
AND PAPERBOARD AND
AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, CONTAINERISED CARGO FOR,
IN TONNAGE TERMS, 95 PER CENT OF SEABORNE IMPORTS OF RES INS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS, 93 PER CENT OF ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES AND PARTS, 90 PER CENT OF PAPER, ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD AND 84 PER CENT MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF METAL AND NON-METALLIC MINERALS, ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED.
OF
NOT
/FOR SEABORNE
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