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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1989

IN

OF MANIFEST

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 11 PER CENT.

HONG

RECORDED

IN

WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE

CONTAINER VESSELS (+160). (+192). TANKERS OF OIL NUMBER CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (+132) AND DRY BULK CARRIERS (+35).

THE

IN NUMBER PANAMA (+137).

WHILE MAJOR (-37), WEST

WHEN ANALYSED BY FLAG OF VESSELS, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+148), TAIWAN (+29), THE U.S.A. (+27) AND THE U.S.S.R. (+25), DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN DENMARK GERMANY (-10) AND THE PHILIPPINES (-10).

THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY OF LESS THAN 10,000 WITH A DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 271 WHILST THE NUMBER OF THOSE LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 229.

SHIPS

IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1988, THERE WERE 4,260 OUTGOING WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 26.0 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 460 (OR 12 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 2.5 MILLION NRT (OR 11 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1987.

THE

OUTGOING

LOADED ONTO OF CARGO TOTAL TONNAGE (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE CENT. ABOUT 66 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS,

SHIPS BY 15 PER HONG KONG

CENT IN OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 85 PER

CARGO. TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 15 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT

CENT WAS EXPORTS OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, 61 PER

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CENT WAS DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND (INCLUDING TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

TONNAGE

SINGAPORE

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TERMS WERE SOUTH AFRICA (16 PER CENT), JAPAN (14 PER CENT), (14 PER CENT), CHINA (10 PER CENT), TAIWAN (10 PER CENT) AND AUSTRALIA DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE (7 PER CENT). WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF EXPORTS WERE THE U.S.A. (18 PER CENT). CHINA (16 PER CENT). TAIWAN (13 AND SINGAPORE (5 PER CENT), PER CENT) PER CENT),

(6 JAPAN

TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA (32 PER CENT) AND PER THE U.S.A. (19 PER CENT). AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN CHINA (23 CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (12 PER CENT).

OF

COMPARING THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1988 WITH THE FOURTH QUARTER 1987. MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM (+19 PER SOUTH AFRICA (+176 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+25 PER CENT), JAPAN

AND INDONESIA CENT), CHINA (10 PER CENT), THE U.S.A. (+8 PER CENT)

TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR PER (+7

MAJOR DECREASES IN CENT); WHILE

PER SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM SOUTH KOREA (-41 PER CENT). AUSTRALIA (-11 GENT) AND SINGAPORE (-9 PER CENT).

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