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SECOND QUARTER SHIPPING, PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED

QUARTER OF 1987, IN THE SECOND

3.787 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 22.6 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRIVED IN HONG KONG, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 376 (OR 11 PER CENT) IN OF 2.6 MILLION NRT (OR 13 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER

TO THE "HONG QUARTER OF 1986, ACCORDING

KONG SHIPPING REPORT" PUBLISHED TODAY (THURSDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND DEPARTMENT.

NUMBER AND THE SECOND STATISTICS STATISTICS

CARGO DURING THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF IN HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 11 PER CENT.

DISCHARGED MANIFEST

THE

INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE,

VESSELS (+197), NUMBER OF CONTAINER

DRY BULK CARRIERS (+32) AND WERE RECORDED FOR SEMI-CONTAINER VESSELS (+28), INCREASES IN NUMBER

BUT (+109),

A DECREASE SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+158) AND PANAMA

NUMBER OF WAS RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN THE U.S.A. (-36). THR

DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY OF LESS THAN 10,000 (+190).

SHIPS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1987, THERE WERE 3,771 OUTGOING

REPRESENTING AN INCREASE WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 22.6 MILLION NRT.

(OR 13 PER OF 384 (OR 11 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 2.6 MILLION NRT

TOTAL 1986. THE

TONNAGE CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF

SHIPS OUTGOING

(ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO

OF OF THE MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 17 PER CENT. ABOUT 64 PER CENT DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.

84 PER CENT IN TRANSHIPMENT CARGO. PER CENT WAS EXPORTS 45 PER CENT WAS

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 16 PER CENT WAS

55 SHIPS, OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING

AND RE-EXPORTS} AND (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

TONNAGE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN

PER CENT), JAPAN (13 TERMS WERE CHINA (15 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (14

AUSTRALIA (9 PER CENT), PER CENT), SOUTH AFRICA (10 PER CENT) AND

WERE THE WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS

(9 PER CENT) AND U.S.A. (22 PER CENT), TAIWAN (11 PER CENT), CHINA JAPAN (7 PER CENT). TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (23 PER CENT); AND WAS MAINLY CHINA (21 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (12 PER CENT).

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DISCHARGED IN

QUARTER IN COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1987 WITH THE SAME

SOUTH 1986, INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM

CENT), WEST GERMANY (+48 PER KOREA (+61 PER CENT), CHINA (+54 PER

PER CENT)

TAIWAN (+12 PER

BUT CENT); CENT), AUSTRALIA (+33

THE U.S.A. DECREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM

AND SINGAPORE (-11 PER (-22 PER CENT), SOUTH AFRICA (-12 PER CENT)

· CENT).

AND

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