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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1989

SECOND QUARTER SHIPPING, PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED

IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989, 4,458 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 27.1 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRIVED IN HONG KONG, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 437 (OR 11 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 3.4 MILLION NRT (OR 14 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1988.

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THIS IS CONTAINED IN THE "HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS

REPORT

JUNE 1989" PUBLISHED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

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OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 1 PER CENT.

WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+207), OIL TANKERS (+179) AND CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (+64), WHILE A MAJOR DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF ROLL-ON/ROLL-OFF VESSELS (-21).

WHEN ANALYSED BY FLAG OF VESSELS, MAJOR INCREASES IN NUMBER WERE RECORDED FOR SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+221), PANAMA (+100), THE USA (+19) AND WEST GERMANY (+18), WHILE A DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN THE PHILIPPINES (-13).

THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY OF LESS THAN 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 307 WHILST THE NUMBER OF THOSE WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 130.

IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989, THERE WERE 4,464 OUTGOING SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 27.0 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 457 (OR 11 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 3.3 MILLION NRT (OR 14 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1988.

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 10 PER CENT. ABOUT 68 PER CENT OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 86 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 14 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO. OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, 61 PER CENT WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 39 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TONNAGE TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (16 PER CENT), SOUTH AFRICA (14 PER CENT), JAPAN (14 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (11 PER CENT), CHINA (10 PER CENT), TAIWAN (7 PER CENT) AND THE USA (5 PER CENT), WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE USA (21 PER CENT), CHINA (17 PER CENT), TAIWAN (12 PER CENT), JAPAN (5 PER CENT), SOUTH KOREA (5 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (5 PER CENT) AND INDONESIA (4 PER CENT).

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