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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1990

1989 SHIPPING, PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED

NET

HONG

AN

107.6 MILLION IN 1989, 17,763 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF REGISTERED

(NRT) ARRIVED IN

KONG, TONS

REPRESENTING INCREASE OF 1 352 (OR 8 PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 9.6 MILLION NRT (OR 10 PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER 1988.

REPORT

THIS IS RELEASED IN THE "HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS 1989" PUBLISHED TODAY (FRIDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

KONG

IN 1989, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED IN HONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS)} INCREASED BY 3 PER CENT OVER 1988.

THE

RECORDED IN WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE NUMBER OF OIL TANKERS (+808), CONTAINER VESSELS (+627) AND CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (+133), WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED

AND IN

ROLL-ON/ROLL-OFF THE NUMBER OF SEMI-CONTAINER VESSELS (-117) VESSELS (-97).

WHEN ANALYSED BY FLAG OF VESSELS, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED PANAMA (+286), (+853), IN THE NUMBER OF SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA

WHILE MAJOR WEST GERMANY (+55),

DECREASES NORWAY

WERE (+56) AND

PHILIPPINES IN THOSE REGISTERED IN JAPAN (-124), THE RECORDED

(-44)

AND TAIWAN (-40).

THE

A NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS WITH 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 888 WHILST WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 464.

OF CAPACITY

LESS THAN THE NUMBER OF THOSE

IN 1989, THERE WERE 17,785 OUTGOING SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY 9 PER OF 107.9 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 1,420 (OR

CAPACITY CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 10.1 MILLION NRT (OR 10 PER CENT) IN OVER 1988.

THE

TOTAL

TONNAGE OF

SHIPS 11 PER HONG KONG

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

CENT IN

CARGO. EXPORTS CENT WAS

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 86 PER TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 14 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT

WAS CENT OF THE CARGO

LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, 61 PER

39 PER AND RE-EXPORTS) AND (INCLUDING DOMESTIC TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

EXPORTS

TONNAGE AFRICA

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (17 PER CENT), JAPAN (14 PER CENT), SOUTH (13 PER CENT), CHINA (11 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (9 PER CENT), TAIWAN PER CENT) AND

MAJOR COUNTRIES THE USA (5 PER CENT), WHILE THE DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE USA (21 PER CENT), CHINA PER CENT), TAIWAN (12 PER CENT), JAPAN (5 PER CENT) AND SINGAPORE PER CENT).

(8

OF

(17

(5

/TRANSHIPMENT CARGO