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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1990

SECOND QUARTER 1990 SHIPPING, PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED

IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990, 4,764 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 27.9 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRIVED HONG KONG, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 306 (OR SEVEN PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF 0.8 MILLION NRT (OR THREE PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989.

REPORT

THIS IS SHOWN IN THE "HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS

JUNE 1990"

BY TODAY (FRIDAY)

THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

APRIL

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PUBLISHED

IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED IN HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) DECREASED BY FIVE PER CENT OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989.

WHEN ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF OIL TANKERS (+159), CONTAINER VESSELS (+86) AND SEMI- CONTAINER VESSELS (+31).

WHEN ANALYSED BY FLAG OF VESSELS, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF SHIPS REGISTERED IN CHINA (+197), LIBERIA (+44), DENMARK AND GREENLAND (+22), SOUTH KOREA (+19), WEST GERMANY (+19) AND SINGAPORE (+18), WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN PANAMA (-42) AND JAPAN (-31) -

THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY OF LESS THAN 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 175 WHILST THE NUMBER OF THOSE WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 131.

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IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990, THERE WERE 4,783 OUTGOING WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 28 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE 319 (OR SEVEN PER CENT) IN NUMBER AND OF ONE MILLION NRT (OR FOUR PER CENT) IN CAPACITY OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989.

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 11 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, 87 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 13 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, 63 PER CENT WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 37 PER CENT WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

/THE MAJOR