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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1988

TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN

CHINA (30 PER

CENT) CHINA (20

AND THE U.S.A. (20 PER CENT); AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (12 PER CENT).

NOTED FOR COMPARING 1987 WITH 1986, INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE

(+37 PER SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM INDONESIA (+80 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA

CENT) AND CHINA CENT), WEST GERMANY (+23 PER CENT), CANADA (+23 PER

IN TONNAGE WAS NOTED FOR SEABORNE (+21 PER CENT); BUT A DECREASE IMPORTS FROM THE U.S.A. (-11 PER CENT).

AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE PER CENT,

IMPORTS ROSE BY 9

MANUFACTURES

(+46

PER

(+43

PER

ELSEWHERE

SPECIFIED

MATERIALS

(+38 PER

INCREASES IN CARGO TONNAGE AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES,

OF IMPORTS

ORGANIC CHEMICALS WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE

(EXCLUDING FURNITURES) CENT), CORK AND WOOD CENT), CRUDE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS, NOT (+40 PER CENT) AND ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC CENT).

DECREASES WERE CHEMCIALS (-20 PER RELATED MATERIALS (-9 PER CENT).

COMPARING

1987

RECORDED CENT)

FOR SEABORNE

AND

PETROLEUM,

IMPORTS OF PETROLEUM

INORGANIC

PRODUCTS

AND

THE 1986,

TOTAL

WITH

TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE-EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 15 PER CENT.

RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE THAILAND (+105 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA (+90 PER CENT), JAPAN CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (+54 PER CENT), WEST GERMANY AUSTRALIA (+31 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (+19 PER CENT).

CENT).

(+59 PER (+39 PER CENT),

A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO CHINA (-32

PER

INCREASES COMMODITIES,

IN TONNAGE WERE AMONG THE PRINCIPAL

METALS OF NON-FERROUS

(+91 PER CENT), NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS

PER MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+87

AND KAOLIN (+47 PER CENT), COTTON TEXTILES (+58 PER CENT) AND CLAY CENT).

IN DECREASES

TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (-34 PER CENT) AND PETROLEUM, AND RELATED MATERIALS (-32 PER CENT).

OF THE

DISCHARGED CARGO

FROM

INCOMING

SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 31 PER TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO.

EXPORTS

OF

SEABORNE

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

SHIPS, CENT IN TERMS

INCLUDING

OF

OF THAT LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, INCLUDING SEABORNE AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 76 PER CENT WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO.

EXPORTS

/IN TERMS