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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1988

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4TH QUARTER SHIPPING, PORT, CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED

* * * * *

OF QUARTER

1987,

3,795

SHIPS

IN THE FOURTH

WITH A TOTAL (NRT) ARRIVED IN HONG CAPACITY OF 23.3 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONG

IN NUMBER AND KONG, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 132 (OR 4 PER CENT)

6 PER

IN CENT)

CAPACITY OVER OF 1.4 MILLION NRT (OR

THE FOURTH

QUARTER OF 1986.

KONG SHIPPING

STATISTICS REPORT"

THIS IS SHOWN BY THE "HONG PUBLISHED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

IN

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED

A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 7 PER CENT.

WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE,

VESSELS

AND IN THE

INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE

DRY (+207),

BULK CARRIERS NUMBER OF CONTAINER

(+28) ROLL-ON/ROLL-OFF VESSELS (+17), WHILE DECREASES WERE RECORDED NUMBER OF OIL TANKERS (-74) AND CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (-64).

WEST INCREASES IN NUMBER WERE RECORDED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN

FOR THOSE GERMANY (+23) AND CHINA (+21), BUT DECREASES WERE RECORDED REGISTERED IN THE U.S.A. (-26) AND THE PHILIPPINES (-16).

SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY THE NUMBER OF DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED (+27).

OF LESS THAN 10,000

SHIPS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1987, THERE WERE 3,800 OUTGOING

REPRESENTING AN INCREASE WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 23.5 MILLION NRT,

MILLION NRT (OR 6 PER OF 128 (OR 3 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 1.4 CENT)

IN CAPACITY OVER THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1986.

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CENT.

SHIPS

LOADED ONTO OUTGOING CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 19 PER

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

IN HONG KONG

85 PER CENT IN TRANSHIPMENT CARGO. PER CENT WAS EXPORTS AND 45 PER CENT WAS

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

55 SHIPS, OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING

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

JAPAN

TONNAGE

CHINA

CENT),

WHILE

U.S.A.

JAPAN

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN

(17 PER CENT),

(13 TERMS WERE SINGAPORE

PER CENT) (11 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (9 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (9 PER THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE

CHINA CENT),

(10 PER CENT), (19 PER CENT), TAIWAN (11 PER

(8 PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (6 PER CENT).

/TRANSHIPMENT CARGO