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WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1988

FIRST QUARTER SHIPPING. PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED

IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1988, 3,819 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 22.7 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRI' "D IN HONG KONG, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 299 (OR 8 PER CENT) IN SUMBER AND OF 1.5 MILLION NRT (OR 7 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1987.

THIS IS SHOWN IN THE "HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS REPORT" PUBLISHED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

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OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 5 PER CENT.

WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+207), SEMI-CONTAINER VESSELS (+46) AND OIL TANKERS (+31), WHILE A DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (-34).

WHEN ANALYSED BY FLAG OF VESSELS, MAJOR INCREASES IN NUMBER WERE RECORDED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+100) AND PANAMA (+68), BUT DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN JAPAN (-18) AND SOUTH KOREA (-13).

THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY OF LESS THAN 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 186 WHILE THE NUMBER OF THOSE WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 113.

IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1988, THERE WERE 3,821 OUTGOING SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 22.6 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 289 (OR 8 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 1.4 MILLION NRT (OR 7 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1987.

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 11 PER CENT. ABOUT 69 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 85 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 15 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO. OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, 57 .PER CENT WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS} AND 43 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TONNAGF TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (15 PER CENT), JAPAN (13 PER CENT), ' CHINA (11 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (10 PER CENT), SOUTH AFRICA (9 PER CENT) AND TAIWAN (9 PER CENT), WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE U.S.A. (19 PER CENT), TAIWAN (12 PER CENT), CHINA (10 PER CENT), JAPAN (7 PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (7 PER CENT).

TRANSHIPMENT CARGO