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IN THE

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1988

THIRD QUARTER SHIPPING, PORT AND

CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED 韋率章

THIRD QUARTER

OF

1987,

3,774

SHIPS

WITH A (NRT) ARRIVED IN HONG

TOTAL

CAPACITY OF 22.8 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS KONG.

IN NUMBER THE THIRD AND OF 1.6 MILLION NRT (OR 7 PER CENT) QUARTER OF 1986, ACCORDING TO THE HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS REPORT PUBLISHED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THIS REPRESENTED AN INCREASE OF 296 (OR 9 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER

CARGO DISCHARGED DURING THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF

MANIFEST IN HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMple of CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 9 PER CENT.

SEMI-CONTAINER VESSELS (+10).

NUMBER OF CONTAINER

WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE,

VESSELS

(+201),

INCREASES

DRY BULK CARRIERS

WERE

RECORDED IN (+50)

THE

AND

INCREASES IN NUMBER

WERE

RECORDED FOR SHIPS

REGISTERED

IN

FOR THOSE

CHINA (+134) AND PANAMA (+59), BUT DECREASES WERE RECORDED REGISTERED IN JAPAN (-26) AND THE U.S.A. (-24).

A WITH SHIPS THE NUMBER OF DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED (+177).

CAPACITY

OF

LESS

THAN

10,000

OUTGOING SHIPS IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1987, THERE WERE 3,750

REPRESENTING AN INCREASE WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 22.7 MILLION NRT,

NRT 1.6 MILLION

(OR 7 PER OF 1.6 OF 272 (OR 8 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1986.

THE TOTAL

OF TONNAGE

OUTGOING ROSE BY 10

SHIPS PER

CARGO LOADED ON TO CONSIGNMENTS) (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CENT.

ABOUT 64 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED FOR FEWER THAN TWO DAYS.

IN HONG KONG

85 PER CENT IN

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 15 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

SHIPS,

59 OF THE CARGO LOADED ON TO OUTGOING EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

PER

WAS CENT 41 PER CENT

TONNAGE

CHINA

WHILE

U.S.A.

PER

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (16 PER CENT), SOUTH AFRICA (14 PER CENT), CENT), (13 PER CENT), JAPAN (12 PER CENT) AND AUSTRALIA (9 PER THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE (22 PER CENT), TAIWAN (11 PER CENT), CHINA (8 PER CENT), JAPAN (6 CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (6 PER CENT).

'TRANSHIPMENT CARGO