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FRIDAY, AUGUST 4. 1989

5

FOR PER

COMPARING 1988 WITH 1987, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED

AFRICA SOUTH SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM BRAZIL (+197 PER CENT), CENT), THE PHILIPPINES (+59 PER CENT). THE NETHERLANDS (+46) CENT) AND INDONESIA (+37 PER CENT); WHILE A MAJOR DECREASE IN WAS

KOREA NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA

PER CENT) AND CHINA (-7 PER CENT). (-10 TOIAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE BY 14 PER CENT.

(+72

PER - 11 AS A

WHOLE,

PER TONNAGE

CENT

THE

1

IN AMONG THE PRINCIPAL

INCREASES COMMODITIES, MAJOR

CARGO RESINS AND TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF ARTIFICIAL

METAL PLASTIC MATERIALS (+45 PER CENTI, MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF

CENT) + AND NON-METALLIC MINERALS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+26 PER

(+19 OTHER MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED

DECREASE WAS WHILE A PER CENT AND IRON AND STEEL (+18 PER CENT); RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF INORGANIC CHEMICALS (-4 PER CENT),

COMPARING 1988 WITH 1987. THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS PER CENT, MAJOR (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE-EXPORTS INCREASED BY 24

(+86 INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO CHINA

(+26 PER CENT), PER CENT), TAIWAN (+36 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS

(+18 PER THAILAND (+22 PER CENT), WEST GERMANY (+22 PER CENT), FRANCE

THE UNITED CENT), INDONESIA (+16 PER CENT), THE USA (+15 PER CENT), KINGDOM {+15 PER CENT AND AUSTRALIA (+15 PER CENT).

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE AND WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS RELATED MATERIALS (+112 PER CENT), IRON AND STEEL (+97 PER CENT), CLAY METAL AND AND KAOLIN (+54 PER CENT), MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF NON-METALLIC MINERALS,

PER CENT), (+46 ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED AND RESINS ARTIFICIAL

MATERIALS

AND (+45 PER CENT) METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (+30 PER CENT).

CARGO

NOT

PLASTIC

DISCHARGED FROM

INCOMING SHIPS,

INCLUDING

OF THE SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 33 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THOSE LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, INCLUDING SEABORNE EXPORTS AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT. 77 PER CENT CONTAINERISED CARGO.

WAS

PER

IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR 27 CENT OF SEABORNE IMPORTS. IN PARTICULAR, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED ITALY (88 PER CENT), FOR A LARGE PROPORTION OF SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM

CENT!, WEST MALAYSIA THE NETHERLANDS (85 PER CENT), THE USA (85 PER (78 PER CENT) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (74 PER CENT).

ROSE

FOR.

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CONTAINERISED SEABORNE IMPORTS BY 20 PER CENT OVER 1987.

OF

AND

PER

IN 1988

ACCOUNT ED OF OTHER

CENT

OF CENT

OF PAPER.

AND NON-METALLIC

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, CONTAINERISED CARGO IMPORTS SEABORNE IN TONNAGE TERMS. 91 PER CENT

PARTS. 91 PER ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES ELECTRICAL AND

87 MATERIALS, AND PLASTIC ARTIFICIAL RESINS PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP. OF PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD AND 81 PER CENT OF MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF MINERALS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED.

METAL

/OF SEABORNE