FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1984
ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS ROSE BY 19 PER CENT AND THE NUMBER OF CONTAINERS (MEASURED IN TEU'S) LOADED IN HONG KONG ALSO ROSE, BY 19 PER CENT. ABOUT 54 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING VESSELS MAD STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN 1-1/2 DAYS.
BASED ON INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE OCEAN CARGO MANIFESTS, 89 PER CENT OF THE INWARD SEABORNE CAR GO IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT WAS IMPORTS AND 11 PER CENT WAS FOR TRANSHIPMENT; WHILE 62 PER GENT OF THE OUTWARD SEABORNE CARGO WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING RE-EXPORTS} AND 38 PER CENT WAS FOR TRANSHIPMENT.
THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS WERE JAPAN (23 PER CENT IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT), SINGAPORE (16 PER CENT) AND CHINA (14 PER CENT), AND THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE U.S.A. (19 PER CENT), TAIWAN (15 PER CENT) AND CHINA (11 PER CENT).
TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED FROM CHINA (33 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (29 PER CENT), AND TRANSHIPPED TO THE U.S.A. (17 PER CENT), TAIWAN (10 PER CENT) AND CHINA (SEVEN PER CENT).
COMPARISON OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1984 WITH THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1983 SHOWS SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN IMPORTS FROM AUSTRALIA (+139 PER CENT IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT), JAPAN (+80 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+43 PER CENT).
THE TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA DECLINED BY 62 PER CENT AND FROM THE U.S.A. BY 32 PER CENT.
AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED IN THE IMPORTS OF CHEMICAL MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS (+262 PER CENT); PAPER, PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD (+53 PER CENT); AND COAL, COKE AND BRIQUETTES (+47 PER CENT).
OVER THE SAME PERIOD, SEABORNE EXPORTS TO CHINA ROSE RAPIDLY, BY 15 TIMES IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, WHILE SEABORNE EXPORTS TO JAPAN AND TAIWAN ROSE BY 43 PER CENT AND 32 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY.
AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS (ALL BEING RE-EXPORTS) ROSE BY 230 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, WHILE THOSE OF METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP ROSE BY 104 PER CENT, AND THOSE OF TOYS BY 47 PER CENT.
SHIPPING STATISTICS ARE COMPILED PRIMARILY FROM GENERAL DECLARATIONS SUBMITTED TO THE MARINE DEPARTMENT BY SHIP MASTERS OR AUTHORISED SHIPPING AGENTS, AND COVER ALL OCEAN-GOING VESSELS ENTERING AND LEAVING HONG KONG, EXCLUDING YACHTS AND PLEASURE CRAFT.
PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS ARE COMPILED FROM OCEAN CAR GO MANIFESTS SUPPLIED BY SHIPPING COMPANIES OR AGENTS TO THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
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