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TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1991

THE NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS

WITH A CAPACITY OF LESS TONS INCREASED BY 523 WHILST THE NUMBER 10,000 DEADWEIGHT WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 561.

THAN

OF

THOSE

IN 1990, THERE WERE 18,824 OUTGOING SHIPS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY 621 IN OF 112.2 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 1,039 (OR NUMBER AND OF 4.3 MILLION NRT (OR 4%) IN CAPACITY OVER 1989.

THE

TONNAGE TOTAL

OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 5%.

SHIPS

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, ANALYSES OF THE NUMBER OF OUTGOING SHIPS BY SHIP TYPE, FLAG, AND CAPACITY ARE LARGELY THE SAME AS THOSE OBSERVED IN INCOMING SHIPS. ABOUT 68% OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.

THE CARGO DOMESTIC

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 87% IN TERMS OF TONNAGE

OF WAS IMPORTS AND 13% WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO. LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, 63% WAS EXPORTS (INCLUDING EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 37% WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TONNACE WERE TERMS

(14%), SINGAPORE (WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR 16%), JAPAN

CHINA (12%), SOUTH AFRICA (10%), AUSTRALIA (9%), TAIWAN (8%) AND THE USÅ (6%), WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE

USA THE

(WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR 20%), CHINA (14%),

(13%) TAIWAN SINGAPORE (5%), JAPAN (5%), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (4%) SOUTH KOREA (4%).

TRANSHIPMENT

USA

(15%),

AND WAS

CHINA (13%).

CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA (36%)

USA DISCHARGED ALSO IN THE

MAINLY

AND

(14%)

AND THE AND

THE

AND

COMPARING 1990 WITH 1989, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM INDONESIA (+108%), MALAYSIA (+26%), UNITED KINGDOM (+25%), THE NETHERLANDS (+18%), THE USA (+17%) CHINA (+16%); WHILE MAJOR DECREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM BRAZIL (-23%) AND SOUTH AFRICA (-20%).

AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE BY 2%.

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES, MAJOR INCREASES IN CARGO TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE

OF IMPORTS

CHEMICALS ORGANIC (+34%), ARTIFICIAL RESINS AND PLASTIC MATERIALS (+23%) AND PAPER, PAPERBOARD AND

PAPERBOARD ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF PAPER OR OF WHILE MAJOR DECREASES WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE (+21%);

IMPORTS CEMENT AND CEMENT CLINKER (-18%) AND PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (-5%).

OF

COMPARING 1990 WITH 1989, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE-EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 8%.

MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO THE FEDERAL

GERMANY

THE REPUBLIC OF

(+57%), MACAU (+35%); NETHERLANDS (+28%), CANADA (+21%), TAIWAN (+19%), SINGAPORE (+19%) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (+19%); WHILE A MAJOR DECREASE WAS RECORDED SEABORNE EXPORTS TO CHINA (-14%).

FOR

/AMONG THE