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SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1991

FOURTH QUARTER SHIPPING, PORT AND CARGO STATISTICS RELEASED

IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1990, 4,670 SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 28.7 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRIVED HONG

KONG, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 64 (OR 1%) IN NUMBER AND OF 1.0 MILLION NRT (OR 4%) IN CAPACITY OVER THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1989.

REPORT

THIS IS CONTAINED IN THE "HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS OCTOBER - DECEMBER 1990" PUBLISHED TODAY (SATURDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1990, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO DISCHARGED IN HONG KONG FROM INCOMING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) INCREASED BY 10% OVER THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1989.

WHEN

ANALYSED BY SHIP TYPE, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF CONTAINER VESSELS (+172), CONVENTIONAL CARGO VESSELS (+75) AND DRY BULK CARRIERS (+54).

WHEN ANALYSED BY FLAG OF VESSELS, MAJOR INCREASES WERE RECORDED IN THE NUMBER OF SHIPS REGISTERED IN LIBERIA (+37), DENMARK AND GREENLAND (+29) AND SOUTH KOREA (+14), WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR THOSE REGISTERED IN CHINA (-30), JAPAN (-28) AND PANAMA (-20).

THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS WITH A CAPACITY OF LESS THAN 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS DECREASED BY 78 WHILST THE NUMBER OF THOSE WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 142.

IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1990, THERE WERE 4,657 OUTGOING SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 28.8 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 49 (OR 1%) IN NUMBER AND OF 0.9 MILLION NRT (OR 3%) IN CAPACITY THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1989.

OVER

SHIPS

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 1%. ABOUT 69% OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.

TONNAGE

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 85% IN TERMS OF IMPORTS AND 15% WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO. OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, 63% WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 37% WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO,

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TONNAGE TERMS WERE JAPAN (16%), CHINA (16%), SINGAPORE (15%), AUSTRALIA (9%), TAIWAN (9%), SOUTH AFRICA (8%) AND THE USA (6%), WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE THE USA (20%), TAIWAN (16%), CHINA (7%), SINGAPORE (6%), JAPAN (6%) AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (6%).

TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA (34%) AND THE USA (13%), AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED ALSO IN CHINA (14%) AND THE USA

(12%).

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