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FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1988

TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA (30 PER CENT) AND (18 PER THE U.S.A. (17 PER CENT); AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN CHINA CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (11 PER CENT).

QUARTER COMPARING THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1987 WITH THE SAME

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

CENT), SOUTH U.S.A. (+34 PER

KOREA (+27 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE DECREASES IN TONNAGE (+5 PER CENT); BUT

WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE

CENT) (-21 PER

AND IMPORTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA (-25 PER CENT), CHINA THAILAND (-11 PER CENT).

AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE BY 5 PER

CENT.

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES,

TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF INORGANIC CHEMICALS (+123 PER ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE CENT), ORGANIC CHEMICALS (+85 PER CENT), CRUDE SPECIFIED (+50 PER MATERIALS, NOT ELSEWHERE

CENT) AND ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS (+28 PER CENT).

INCREASES

IN

CARGO

IMPORTS

OF

CEREALS

AND

DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE CEREAL PREPARATIONS (-15 PER CENT) AND IRON AND STEEL (-8 PER CENT).

COMPARING THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1987 WITH THE SAME QUARTER

EXPORTS

EXPORTS (DOMESTIC 1986, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE RE-EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 12 PER CENT.

EXPORTS

IN

PLUS

ΤΟ

INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE JAPAN (+56 PER CENT), THAILAND (+42 PER CENT), WEST GERMANY (+41 PER PER CENT) CENT), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+26 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA (+19

RECORDED FOR SEABORNE AND TAIWAN (+13 PER CENT); BUT A DECREASE WAS EXPORTS TO CHINA (-29 PER CENT).

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE CENT), COTTON NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF CLAY AND KAOLIN (+52 PER TEXTILES (+48

CENT), NON-FERROUS METALS (+44 PER CENT) MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+43

CENT).

PER

AND

PER

DECREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF

MATERIALS (-51 PER PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED

CENT) AND VEGETABLE AND FRUIT (-21 PER CENT).

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO.

32

PER

INCOMING SHIPS, INCLUDING CENT IN TERMS OF

INCLUDING

SEABORNE

OF THAT LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, EXPORTS AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 78 PER CENT WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO. IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR 27 PER CENT SEABORNE IMPORTS.

OF

/IN PARTICULAR,