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THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1985

WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, NOTABLE INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+261), ROLL-ON/ROLL-OFF VESSELS (+138) AND SEMI-CONTAINER VESSELS (+133), WHILE THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT DROP IN THE NUMBER OF CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (-388).

INCREASES IN NUMBER WERE NOTED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+250), IN PANAMA (+149) AND IN TAIWAN (+119), BUT DECLINES WERE RECORDED FOR LIBERIAN SHIPS (-113) AND SINGAPOREAN SHIPS (-78). THE NUMBER OF SHIPS WITH CAPACITY UNDER 10 000 DWT INCREASED (+524).

LAST YEAR, THERE WERE 11 716 DEPARTING SHIPS, WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 68.8 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 514 IN NUMBER AND ONE PER CENT IN CAPACITY OVER 1983.

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS POSE BY 15 PER CENT, AND THE NUMBER OF CONTAINERS (MEASURED IN TEUS) LOADED IN HONG KONG ALSO ROSE BY 15 PER CENT. ABOUT 65 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING VESSELS HAD STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.

BASED ON INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM OCEAN CARGO MANIFESTS, 89 PER CENT IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT OF THE INWARD SEABORNE CARJ WAS IMPORTS AND 11 PER CENT WAS FOR TRANSHIPMENT.

OF THE OUTWARD SEABORNE CARGO, 60 PER CENT WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING RE-EXPORTS) AND 40 PER CENT WAS FOR TRANSHIPMENT.

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS WERE JAPAN (20 PER CENT IN TERMS OF GROSS WEIGHT), SINGAPORE (16 PER CENT) AND CHINA (13 PER CENT), AND THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE U.S. (22 PER CENT), TAIWAN (13 PER CENT) AND CHINA (11 PER CENT).

TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED FROM CHINA (30 PER CENT) AND THE U.S. (26 PER CENT), AND TRANSHIPPED TO THE U.S. (17 PER CENT) AND CHINA (9 PER CENT).

COMPARING LAST YEAR WITH 1983, THERE WAS A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS (+8 PER CENT). SMALL INCREASES WERE REGISTERED IN IMPORTS FROM JAPAN (+7 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+3 PER CENT), WHILE IMPORTS FROM CHINA DROPPED (-8 PER CENT).

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED IN THE IMPORTS OF CHEMICAL MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS, N.E.S. (+64 PER CENT); INORGANIC CHEMICALS (+49 PER CENT) AND PAPER, PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD (+35 PER CENT). SEABORNE IMPORTS OF VEGETABLES AND FRUIT, HOWEVER, DROPPED BY 12 PER CENT.

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