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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1989

TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN

CHINA

(31

PER

AND THE USA (21 PER CENT), AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN CHINA (19 CENT AND THE USA (13 PER CENT).

CENT) PER

THE SECOND QUARTER SEABORNE IMPORTS SINGAPORE (+16

COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989 WITH OF 1988, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR FROM AUSTRALIA (+41 PER CENT), JAPAN (+20 PER CENT), PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (+13 PER CENT): TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM BRAZIL TAIWAN (-18 PER CENT) AND CHINA (-11 PER CENT).

WHILE MAJOR DECREASES IN

(-19 PER CENT),

IMPORTS ROSE INCREASES IN

BY 3

CARGO

{+120

OTHER

AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE PER CENT, AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, MAJOR TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF TEXTILE FIBRES PER CENT), CEREALS AND

PREPARATIONS (+26 MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT AND PARTS, NOT ELSEWHERE CENT) AND TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD, ALL KINDS

CEREAL

PER CENT), SPECIFIED (+16 PER WHILE (+15 PER CENT);

TIMBER MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF LOGS AND (-27 PER CENT), ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS (-24 PER CENT) AND IRON AND STEEL (-22 PER CENT).

THE SECOND

QUARTER

COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989 WITH OF 1988, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS RE-EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 15 PER CENT.

PLUS

SEABORNE EXPORTS

MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR TO CHINA(+50 PER CENT), TAIWAN (+22 PER CENT), THE USA (+21 PER CENT) WERE RECORDED AND WEST GERMANY (+16 PER CENT); WHILE MAJOR DECREASES

AND SINGAPORE (-5 PER FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO JAPAN (-13 PER CENT} CENT).

MAJOR INCREASES

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES,

IN TONNAGE PRODUCTS AND WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM

AND KAOLIN (+52 PER CENT), RELATED MATERIALS (+63 PER CENT), CLAY

AND MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF METAL

NON-METALLIC MINERALS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+35 PER CENT) AND COTTON GARMENTS (+30 PER CENT);

A WHILE

MAJOR DECREASE WAS RECORDED FOR

EXPORTS SEABORNE VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (-24 PER CENT).

SHIPS, INCOMING

OF

INCLUDING

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 34 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THOSE LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, INCLUDING SEABORNE EXPORTS AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 78 PER CENT CONTAINERISED CARGO.

WAS

28 PER IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR CENT

CARGO OF SEABORNE

CONTAINERISED IMPORTS. IN PARTICULAR,

FROM ITALY (99 ACCOUNTED FOR A LARGE PROPORTION OF SEABORNE IMPORTS

PER CENT) AND PER CENT), THE USA (85 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (78 WEST GERMANY (75 PER CENT).

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF

CONTAINERISED SEABORNE IMPORTS SECOND QUARTER OF 1989 ROSE BY 12 PER CENT OVER THE SECOND QUARTER 1988.

IN

THE

OF

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