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FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1989

THE

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE

(13 PER CENT), U.S.A. (20 PER CENT), TAIWAN (15 PER CENT), CHINA

CENT) JAPAN (7 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA (5 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (5 PER AND INDONESIA (4 PER CENT).

(18

CHINA (32 PER CENT) TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN AND THE U.S.A. (16 PER CENT), AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN CHINA PER CENT) AND THE U.S.A. (13 PER CENT).

OF

FROM PER

COMPARING THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989 WITH THE FIRST QUARTER 1988, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS SINGAPORE (+29 PER CENT), SOUTH AFRICA (+27 PER CENT), JAPAN (+16

CENT) AND THE CENT), AUSTRALIA (+14 PER CENT), THAILAND (+11 PER U.S.A. (+10 PER CENT).

A MAJOR DECREASE IN TONNAGE WAS NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM SOUTH KOREA (-10 PER CENT).

AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE PER CENT.

BY 14

INCREASES MAJOR

IN CARGO AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF TEXTILE FIBRES (+60 CENT), PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS CENT), CEREALS AND CEREAL PREPARATIONS (+38 PER CENT) AND WOOD MANUFACTURES (EXCLUDING FURNITURE) (+30 PER CENT).

PER

(+46 PER CORK

AND

AND

MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF LOGS TIMBER (-26 PER CENT) AND ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS (-10 PER CENT).

OF COMPARING THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1989 WITH THE FIRST QUARTER 1988, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE- EXPORTS INCREASED BY 14 PER CENT.

MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE CHINA (+51 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+40 PER CENT), THE U.S.A CENT) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (+14 PER CENT).

ΤΟ

EXPORTS (+22 PER

MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO INDONESIA (-18 PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (-17 PER CENT).

(+56

IN TONNAGE

AND PER CENT), MISCELLANEOUS PER CENT) AND MINERALS, NOT

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, MAJOR INCREASES WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS RELATED

(+98 PER CENT), CLAY AND KAOLIN MATERIALS FOOTWEAR (+41 PER CENT), IRON AND STEEL (+32 PER CENT), MANUFACTURED

NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+31 ARTICLES, MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF METAL AND NON-METALLIC ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+28 PER CENT).

OF THE CARGO

DISCHARGED FROM

INCOMING SHIPS,

INCLUDING

IN TERMS OF SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 31 PER CENT

OF THAT LOADED ONTO OUTGOING

SHIPS, TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO.

WAS INCLUDING SEABORNE EXPORTS AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 78 PER CENT CONTAINERISED CARGO.

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