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FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1989

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FIRST QUARTER SHIPPING, PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED

* * * *

IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989, 4,094 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY

IN OF 24.6

NET REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRIVED

HONG KONG, MILLION

1.8 REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 275 (OR 7 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF

FIRST QUARTER OF MILLION NRT (OR 8 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE 1988.

THIS

IS

-

SHIPPING SHOWN IN THE "HONG KONG JANUARY

MARCH 1989" PUBLISHED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

STATISTICS REPORT THE CENSUS AND

IN

OF MANIFEST

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 13 PER CENT,

HONG

RECORDED IN WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE

(+139) VESSELS

AND CONTAINER THE NUMBER OF OIL TANKERS (+176),

RECORDED CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (+58), WHILE A MAJOR DECREASE WAS IN THE NUMBER OF SEMI-CONTAINER VESSELS (-51).

IN NUMBER

THE

WHEN ANALYSED BY FLAG OF VESSELS, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+183), PANAMA (+32), U.S.A. (+19) AND INDONESIA (+15), WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN JAPAN (-48), DENMARK (-32) AND LIBERIA (-17).

WITH

RECORDED

A CAPACITY OF LESS THAN THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS

OF THOSE 10.000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 140 WHILST THE NUMBER WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 135,

SHIPS

IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989, THERE WERE 4,115 OUTGOING WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 24.8 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 294 (OR 8 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 2.1 MILLION NRT (OR 9 PER IN CAPACITY OVER THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1988.

THE

OF CARGO LOADED

ΟΝΤΟ

CENT)

SHIPS

OUTGOING TOTAL TONNAGE (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 9 PER CENT. ABOUT 67 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR THAN TWO DAYS.

CARGO DISCHARGED

FROM

LESS

CENT

SHIPS, 86 PER INCOMING OF THE

CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 14 PER

SHIPS, 59 ONTO OUTGOING

PER CENT WAS CARGO. OF THE CARGO LOADED

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

TONNAGE AFRICA

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (17 PER CENT), JAPAN (14 PER CENT), SOUTH (10 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (10 PER CENT), CHINA (10 PER CENT), TAIWAN (8 PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (6 PER CENT).

/THE MAJOR