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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1988

1987 SHIPPING, PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED

NET REGISTERED TONS

CAPACITY

OF 90.0 MILLION AN KONG,

REPRESENTING OF 7.6 MILLION NRT ACCORDING TO THE HONG KONG BY THE CENSUS

IN 1987, 14,876 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL

(NRT)

IN ARRIVED

HONG INCREASE OF 1,116 (OR 8 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND (OR 9 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER 1986, SHIPPING STATISTICS REPORT PUBLISHED TODAY (THURSDAY) 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 11 PER CENT.

INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+769), DRY BULK CARRIERS (140) AND SEMI- CONTAINER VESSELS (+57), WHILE DECREASES WERE RECORDED IN OF CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (-112) AND OIL TANKERS (-19).

INCREASES IN NUMBER

WERE RECORDED

THE NUMBER

FOR SHIPS

IN REGISTERED AND WEST GERMANY (+69), CHINA (+419), PANAMA (+339), LIBERIA (+85)

(-108) BUT DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN THE U.S.A. AND SOUTH KOREA (-40).

THE NUMBER OF

WITH SHIPS

A CAPACITY OF

LRSS THAN

10,000

DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASEED (+543).

IN

1987, THERE WERE 14,853

ᎨᏒᎢ . MILLION CAPACITY OF 90.0 (OR 8 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF CAPACITY OVER 1986.

OUTGOING

SHIPS WITH A

AN REPRESENTING

INCREASE OF 7.6 MILLION NRT (OR 9 PER CENT)

TOTAL

1,092

IN

THE

TOTAL

TONNAGE

OF

CARGO

SHIPS LOADED ONTO OUTGOING CONSIGNMENTS} ROSE BY 18 PER (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CENT. ABOUT 65 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.

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

{ INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

84 PER CENT IN TRANSHIPMENT CARGO. SHIPS, 56 PER CENT WAS EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 44 PER

CENT

WAS

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE

(15 PER CENT), CHINA (13 TERMS WERE SINGAPORE ( PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (10 PER CENT), SOUTH AFRICA TAIWAN (9 PER CENT).

PER

IMPORTS IN

JAPAN CENT), (10 PER CENT)

TONNAGE

(13

AND

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE U.S.A. (21 PER CENT), TAIWAN (11 PER CENT), CHINA (9 PER CENT), (7 PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (6 PER CENT).

/TRANSHIPMENT CARGO

THE

JAPAN