FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992
SHIPPING STATISTICS FOR FOURTH QUARTER OF 1991 RELEASED
NET OF
MILLION
QUARTER AND
THERE WERE 5,596 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 31. 1 REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRIVED AT HONG KONG IN THE FOURTH LAST YEAR, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 926 (OR 20%) IN NUMBER OF 2.4 MILLION NRT (OR 8%) IN CAPACITY OVER THE SAME QUARTER OF 1990.
THIS INFORMATION IS CONTAINED IN THE "HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS REPORT, OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1991" PUBLISHED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
TOTAL TONNAGE
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, THE
OF IN HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS WAS 13.6 MILLION CARGOES DISCHARGED TONNES, AN INCREASE OF 16%.
IN
ANALYSING INCOMING SHIPS BY TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED THE
TANKERS
AND (+376) NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+458), OIL CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (+58). A DECREASE
RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF SEMI-CONTAINER VESSELS (-15).
WAS
MAJOR INCREASES CHINA (+371),
VESSELS, ANALYSING INCOMING SHIPS BY FLAG OF
OF SHIPS REGISTERED IN WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER PANAMA (+112), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+45) AND LIBERIA (+38).
THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY
TONS INCREASED BY 761 WHILE THOSE .0,000 DEADWEIGHT
APACITY INCREASED BY 165.
OF LESS THAN
A WITH
LARGER
SHIPS
IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1991, THERE WERE 5,606 OUTGOING WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 31.4 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 949 (OR 20%) IN NUMBER AND OF 2.6 MILLION NRT (OR 9%) IN CAPACITY OVER THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1990.
THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGOES LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS WAS 6.1 MILLION TONNES, AN INCREASE OF 22%.
OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, CHANGES IN THE OUTGOING SHIPS BY SHIP TYPE, FLAG, AND CAPACITY ARE ABOUT THE SAME THOSE RECORDED FOR INCOMING SHIPS, AS ABOUT 71% OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR FEWER THAN TWO DAYS.
NUMBER
OF
AS
TERMS OF
OF THE CARGOES DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 85% IN CONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 15% WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGOES.
64% WAS
EXPORTS TRANSHIPMENT
CARGOES LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, OF THE INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 36% WAS CARGOES.
TONNAGE THE
AUSTRALIA
THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TERMS WERE JAPAN
SINGAPORE (14%), (WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR 16%), REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA (11%), TAIWAN (10%), CHINA (10%), (7%) AND U.S.A. (7%).
/THE MAJOR