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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1988

WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN A THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+153) AND OIL TANKERS (+96), WHILE DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (-35).

ANALYSED BY FLAG OF VESSELS, MAJOR INCREASES IN NUMBER WERE RECORDED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+109), PANAMA (+50) AND RUSSIA (+23), WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN DENMARK (-46), JAPAN (-29) AND SOUTH KOREA (-17).

THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY OF LESS THAN

WHILE 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 132

THE NUMBER OF THOSE/ WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 102.

SHIPS

IN THE SKECOND QUARTER OF 1988, THERE WERK 4,007 OUTGOING WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 23.7 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 236 (OR 6 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 1.1 MILLION (OR 5 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1987.

NRT

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS 18 PER (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY CENT. ABOUT 68 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR UNDER TWO DAYS.

IN

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS,

DISC

84 PER CENT TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 16 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

ONTO OF THE CARGO LOADED

OUTGOING SHIPS, 58 PER CENT WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 42 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

TONNAGE

JAPAN

AUSTRALIA

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TERMS WERE SOUTH AFRICA (16 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (14 PER CENT), (12 PER CENT), CHINA (11 PER CENT), TAIWAN (9 PER CENT) AND (8 PER CENT).

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE

PER U.S.A. (20 PER CENT), CHINA (13)

CENT), TAIWAN

PER (12 JAPAN (7 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (5 PER CENT).

THE

CENT),

WAS MAINLY

(27 PER IN DISCHARGED

CENT)

CHINA

TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA

AND

AND THE U.S.A. (15 PER CENT), (21 PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (12 PER CENT).

COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1988 WITH THE SECOND QUARTER NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF 1987, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE

PER CENT}, INDONESIA (+61 PER FROM SOUTH AFRICA (+84

CENT), THE U.S.A. (+30 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+21 PER CENT).

NOTED FOR

SEABORNE IMPORTS

WERE MAJOR DECREASES IN TONNAGE FROM SOUTH KOREA (-33 PER CENT) AND CHINA (-10 PER CENT).

AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL

19 PER CENT.

TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS

ROSE BY

/AMONG THE