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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1990

+

CENT),

PER

TONNAGE

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (18 PER CENT), JAPAN (13 PER CENT), CHINA (12 PER AND CENT), SOUTH AFRICA (11 PER CENT), AUSTRALIA (NINE

DISCHARGE FOR TAIWAN (EIGHT PER CENT), WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF SEABORNE EXPORTS

CENT), WERE THE USA (20 PER CENT), CHINA (17 PER

(FIVE PER TAIWAN (12 PER CENT), SINGAPORE (FIVE PER CENT) AND JAPAN CENT).

TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA (36 PER CENT) AND

WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED IN THE USA THE USA (16 PER CENT), AND

(15 PER CENT) AND CHINA (12 PER CENT).

(+16

PER

COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990 WITH THE SECOND QUARTER OF FROM 1989, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS INDONESIA (+175 PER CENT), MALAYSIA (+75 PER CENT), CHINA CENT) AND SINGAPORE (+12 PER CENT); WHILE MAJOR DECREASES IN WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM SOUTH KOREA (-32 PER CENT), SOUTH AFRICA (-26 PER CENT) AND AUSTRALIA (-23 PER CENT).

TONNAGE

AS

A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS THREE PER CENT.

DROPPED BY

PRINCIPAL

TIMBER

(+23 PER

CENT)

IN CARGO (+59

PER

PETROLEUM DECREASES

(-24 PER CENT)

AMONG THE

INCREASES COMMODITIES, MAJOR TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF ORGANIC CHEMICALS PER CENT), CORK AND WOOD MANUFACTURES (EXCLUDING FURNITURE) (+38 CENT),

AND LOGS

AND PETROLEUM, PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (+22 PER CENT); WHILE MAJOR WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF TEXTILE FIBRES AND COAL, COKE AND BRIQUETTES (-23 PER CENT).

COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990 WITH THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1989, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE- EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 14 PER CENT.

ΤΟ

MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE

PER CENT), (+58

PER

EXPORTS

THE

PER

WAS

(+24 WEST GERMANY

SINGAPORE

CENT), PHILIPPINES (+19 PER CENT), INDONESIA (+17 PER CENT), CHINA (+14

AND CENT}

THE

PER USA (+12

CENT); WHILE A

DECREASE MAJOR RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO SOUTH KOREA (-14 PER CENT).

AND

EQUIPMENT

IN TONNAGE SIMILAR

MACHINERY CENT),

PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, MAJOR INCREASES AMONG THE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS OF TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND

OTHER (+54 PER CENT), FOOTWEAR (+42 PER CENT), CONTAINERS

(+38 AND

PER PARTS, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (+30 PER CENT) AND

OF MIXED GARMENTS

MATERIALS OR OTHER MATERIALS, NOT

WAS RECORDED FOR (+23 SPECIFIED

PER CENT); WHILE A MAJOR DECREASE SEABORNE EXPORTS OF PULP AND WASTE PAPER (-26 PER CENT).

ELSEWHERE

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, INCLUDING SEABORNE IMPORTS AND INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, 37 PER CENT IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WAS CONTAINERISED CARGO. OF THOSE LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS,

AND OUTWARD

PER TRANSHIPMENT, 78

EXPORTS

SEABORNE CONTAINERISED CARGO.

INCLUDING CENT WAS

/IN TERMS