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1988 SHIPPING, PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED

IN 1988, 16,411 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 98.0 MILLION NET INCREASE REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRIVED IN HONG KONG, REPRESENTING AN OF 1,535 (OR 10 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 8.1 MILLION NRT (OR 9 FER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER 1987.

THIS IS CONTAINED IN THE "HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS PUBLISHED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

1988"

HONG KONG IN 1988, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED IN FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS ) INCREASED BY 14 PER CENT OVER 1987.

TANKERS

RECORDED IN ROLL- (+489),

WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+766), OIL ON/ROLL-OFF (+66), SEMI-CONTAINER VESSELS (+64) AND CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (+61).

WHEN ANALYSED BV FLAG OF VESSELS, MAJOR INCREASES

THE WERE RECORDED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+502), PANAMA (+374),

WHILE MAJOR DECREASES USSR (+97), TAIWAN (+90) AND SINGAPORE (+82), WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN DENMARK (-120), JAPAN (-49) SOUTH KOREA (-26).

IN

NUMBER

AND

OF THE NUMBER

INCOMING SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY OF 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 900 WHILST THE NUMBER WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 635.

IN

1988, THERE

WERE

16,365 OUTGOING

LESS

THAN OF THOSE

WITH SHIPS

A TOTAL

CAPACITY OF 97.8 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 1.512 (OR 10 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 7.7 MILLION NRT (OR 9 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER 1987.

THE

TONNAGE TOTAL

OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS CONSIGNMENTS ) ROSE BY 17 PER (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CENT.

OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN ABOUT 67 PER CENT FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS,

HONG KONG

CENT

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 85 PER

WAS CENT

TRANSHIPMENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 15 PER

59 PER CENT WAS CARGO.

THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, OF

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

TONNAGE

DISCHARGED FOR [13 PER CENT), 15 PER CENT),

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN

PER TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (15

CENT). SOUTH AFRICA (14 PER CENT 1. 19 PER CENT) AND JAPAN (13 PER CENT), CHINA (11 PER CENT), TAIWAN AUSTRALIA (8 PER CENT), WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF

CENT), CHINA SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE USA (19 PER TAIWAN (12 PER CENT), JAPAN (6 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA

(6 SINGAPORE

PER CENT) AND INDONESIA 15 PER CENT). CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA (29 PER CENT) AND THE CENT), AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN CHINA (22 PER CENT) (12 PER CENT),

TRANSHIPMENT

USA (18 PER AND THE USA

/COMPARING 1988