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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1988

CHINA (31 PER CENT) MAINLY DISCHARGED IN CHINA

TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN

AND WAS

AND THE U.S.A. (23 PER CENT); (19 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (12 PER CENT).

QUARTER IN SOUTH

SAME COMPARING THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1987 WITH THE 1986, INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM AFRICA (+51 PER CENT), THAILAND (+17 PER CENT), JAPAN (+11 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+11 PER CENT) AND CHINA (+10 PER CENT).

BUT DECREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM CANADA (-20 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (- 10 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (-7 PER CENT).

TONNAGE AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL

OF SEABORNE IMPORT'S ROSE BY

8 PER CENT.

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, INCREASES IN CARGO TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE

CENT), LOGS AND MATERIALS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+68 PER

TIMBER ( +29 PER CENT), MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF METAL MINERALS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+26 PER CENT) AND BRIQUETTES (+26 PER CENT).

AND NON-METALLIC

COAL, COKE AND

OF INORGANIC

BUT DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS CHEMICALS (-44 PER CENT) AND PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (-14 PER CENT).

COMPARING THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1987 WITH THE SAME QUARTER IN 1986, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE- EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 11 PER CENT.

INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE

RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO PER THAILAND (+127 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA (+125 PER CENT), JAPAN (+45 CENT), WEST GERMANY (+38 PER CENT), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+22 PER CENT ) AND THE U.S.A. (+19 PER CENT).

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL

NOT

CENT)

COMMODITIES, INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED OR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+82 PER CENT), COTTON AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUAFCTURES OF METAL AND NON-METALLIC MINERALS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+38 PER CENT).

TEXTILES

PER (+49

BUT DECREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PRTROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (-64 PER CENT) AND VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (-28 PER CENT).

INCLUDING IN TERMS OF

SHIPS, CENT

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARDS TRANSHIPMENT, 30 PER TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THAT LOADED ON TO OUTGOING SHIPS, INCLUDING SEABORNE EXPORTS AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 76 PER CONTAINERISED CARGO.

CENT WAS

/IN TERMS