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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1984

ON DISPLAY ALSO WILL BE AN AMBULANCE, AN AMBULANCE MOTOR- CYCLE, A PUMP ESCAPE SNORKEL, A MOBILE COMMAND UNIT AND RESCUE EQUIPMENT.

THERE WILL ALSO BE A PHOTOGRAPHIC DISPLAY OF FIRE OFFICERS AND MEN AT WORK AND AT LEISURE, SOME OF THE WORST FIRES THAT OCCURRED IN RECENT YEARS, AS WELL AS FIRE FIGHTING OPERATIONS ON LAND, AIR AND SEA.

A TEMPORARY RECRUITMENT CENTRE WILL BE SET UP FOR PEOPLE INTERESTED IN JOINING THE FIRE SERVICES.

SECOND QUARTER SHIPPING STATISTICS RELEASED *****

IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1984, 2 923 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 16.8 MILLION NRT (NET REGISTERED TONS) ARRIVED IN HONG KONG, ACCORDING TO THE +HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS+ REPORT PUBLISHED TODAY BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THIS REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 109 IN NUMBERS AND A DROP OF TWO PER CENT IN CAPACITY OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1983.

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED IN HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS INCREASED BY 10 PER CENT OVER THE SAME PERIOD, AND THE NUMBER OF CONTAINERS (MEASURED IN TEUS) DISCHARGED IN HONG KONG ROSE BY SIX PER CENT.

WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, NOTABLE INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+56) AND ROLL-ON/ROLL-OF VESSELS (+48), WHILE THE NUMBER OF CONVENTIONAL VESSELS DROPPED (-103). CONSIDERABLE INCREASES IN NUMBER WERE ALSO NOTED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+91) AND IN TAIWAN (+37), BUT DECLINES WERE REGISTERED FOR LIBERIAN SHIPS (-25) AND SINGAPOREAN SHIPS (-39). THE NUMBER OF SHIPS OF CAPACITY UNDER 10 000 DWT (DEADWEIGHT TONS) INCREASED CONSIDERABLY (+157).

IN THE SECOND QUARTER, THERE WERE 2 909 DEPARTING SHIPS, WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 16.8 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 88 IN NUMBER AND A DROP OF TWO PER CENT IN CAPACITY OVER THE SAME QUARTER IN 1983.

ON THE SAME BASIS OF COMPARISON, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS ROSE BY 16 PER CENT AND THE NUMBER OF CONTAINERS (MEASURED IN TEUS) LOADED IN HONG KONG ALSO ROSE, BY 11 PER CENT. ABOUT 56 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING VESSELS HAD STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN 36 HOURS.

BASED ON INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE OCEAN CARGO MANIFESTS, PER CENT IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT OF THE INWARD SEABORNE CARGO WAS IMPORTS AND 10 PER CENT WAS FOR TRANSHIPMENT. OF THE OUTWARD SLABORNE CARGO. 63 PER CENT REPRESENTS EXPORTS (INCLUDING PE-EXPORTS) AND 37 PER CENT WAS FOR TRANSHIPMENT.

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/THE MAJOR