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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1990

AMONG THE

PRINCIPAL

TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR

COMMODITIES, MAJOR

IN INCREASES OF INORGANIC

IMPORTS SEABORNE

CARGO CHEMICALS CEMENT AND

(+38 PER CENT), COAL, COKE AND BRIQUETTES (+23 PER CENT), CEMENT CLINKER (+20 PER CENT) AND VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (+15 PER CENT). MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF LOGS AND

MATERIALS, VEGETABLE ANIMAL AND (-36

CENT) ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (-27 PER CENT).

PER

CRUDE AND

TIMBER NOT

QUARTER OF COMPARING THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989 WITH THE THIRD

EXPORTS PLUS EXPORTS (DOMESTIC

WERE 1988, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE RE-EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 18 PER CENT. MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE

THE USA (+27 WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO CHINA (+73 PER CENT),

WHILE MAJOR DECREASES PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+14 PER CENT),

AND SOUTH RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO INDONESIA (-18 PER KOREA (-8 PER CENT).

CENT)

IN TONNAGE PRODUCTS AND CLAY AND CENT) AND INORGANIC FOR SEABORNE

MAJOR INCREASES AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM RELATED MATERIALS (+101 PER CENT), FOOTWEAR (+46 PER CENT), KAOLIN (+35 PER CENT), COTTON GARMENTS (+29 PER CHEMICALS [+29 PER CENT). A MAJOR DECREASE WAS RECORDED EXPORTS OF METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (-15 PER CENT).

SHIPS, INCLUDING

TERMS OF

INCOMING FROM OF THE

DISCHARGED CARGO SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 31 PER CENT IN TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THOSE LOADED ONTO OUTGOING INCLUDING SEABORNE EXPORTS AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 76 PER CONTAINERISED CARGO.

SHIPS, CENT WAS

26 PER IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR

CARGO CONTAINERISED IMPORTS. IN PARTICULAR, SEABORNE CENT OF

FROM ITALY (98

PER ACCOUNTED FOR A LARGE PROPORTION OF SEABORNE IMPORTS

AND CENT) PER CENT), THE USA (82 PER CENT), THE NETHERLANDS (82 WEST GERMANY (74 PER CENT).

CONTAINERISED SEABORNE

IMPORTS

IN THE OF

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF THIRD QUARTER OF 1989 DROPPED BY 2 PER CENT OVER THE THIRD QUARTER 1988.

ACCOUNTED OF ARTIFICIAL

AND AND CENT OF

NOT

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, CONTAINERISED CARGO FOR, IN TONNAGE TERMS, 96 PER CENT OF SEABORNE IMPORTS

OF OTHER ELECTRICAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS, 91 PER CENT

PAPERBOARD ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES AND PARTS, 89 PER CENT OF PAPER, ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD AND 84 PER

MINERALS, AND NON-METALLIC MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURES OF METAL ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED.

PER

CARGO

ΤΟ

FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR 69

CONTAINERISED PARTICULAR, IN TONNAGE. CENT IN TERMS OF

SEABORNE EXPORTS ACCOUNTED FOR ALL OR A VERY LARGE PROPORTION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA, WEST GERMANY, THE USA AND JAPAN.

/THE TOTAL

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