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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1990

INCREASES

IN CARGO AND WOOD

PETROLEUM,

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, MAJOR TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF CORK MANUFACTURES, EXCLUDING FURNITURE (+47 PER CENT), PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (+45 PER CENT) AND ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS (+27 PER CENT), WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF IRON AND STEEL (-44 PER CENT), COAL, COKE AND BRIQUETTES (-20 PER CENT), INORGANIC CHEMICALS (-19 PER CENT) AND CEMENT AND CEMENT CLINKER (-16 PER CENT).

COMPARING THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1989 WITH THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1988, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE-EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 13 PER CENT.

MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO WEST GERMANY (+46 PER CENT), THE USA (+31 PER CENT), CHINA (+29 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+20 PER CENT); WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM (-13 PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (-10 PER CENT).

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND- RELATED MATERIALS (+75 PER CENT), VEGETABLES AND FRUIT (+29 PER CENT), GARMENTS OF MIXED MATERIALS OR OTHER MATERIALS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED (+27 PER CENT) AND TOYS (+22 PER CENT); WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PULP AND WASTE PAPER (-10 PER CENT) AND CLAY AND KAOLIN (-8 PER CENT).

SHIPS, INCLUDING

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 36 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THOSE LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, INCLUDING SEABORNE EXPORTS AND OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 76 PER CENT WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO.

IN TERMS OF TONNAGE, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR 31 PER CENT OF SEABORNE IMPORTS. IN PARTICULAR, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR A LARGE PROPORTION OF SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM THE NETHERLANDS (82 PER CENT), THE USA (75 PER

CENT), WEST GERMANY

PER CENT), TAIWAN (70 PER CENT) AND SOUTH KOREA (61 PER CENT).

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THE

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CONTAINERISED SEABORNE IMPORTS IN FOURTH QUARTER OF 1989 ROSE BY 8 PER CENT OVER THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1988.

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, CONTAINERISED CARGO ACCOUNTED FOR, IN TONNAGE TERMS, 98 PER CENT OF SEABORNE IMPORTS OF ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS, 94 PER CENT OF OTHER ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES AND PARTS, 92 PER CENT OF PAPER, PAPERBOARD AND

CENT ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD AND 84 PER

OF TEXTILES OF MIXED MATERIALS OR OTHER MATERIALS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED.

/FOR SEABORNE