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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1991

THE

A

NUMBER OF INCOMING SHIPS WITH 10,000 DEADWEIGHT TONS INCREASED BY 508 WHILST WITH A LARGER CAPACITY INCREASED BY 149.

OF CAPACITY

LESS THAN THE NUMBER OF THOSE

SHIPS

IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1991, THERE WERE 5,396 OUTGOING WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 30.0 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 613 (OR 13%) IN NUMBER AND OF 2.0 MILLION NRT (OR 7%) IN CAPACITY OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990.

THE

TOTAL TONNAGE

OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS (ESTIMATED FROM A SAMPLE OF MANIFEST CONSIGNMENTS) ROSE BY 19%.

NUMBER OF SAME THE DEPARTING

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, CHANGES IN THE OUTGOING SHIPS BY SHIP TYPE, FLAG, AND CAPACITY ARE LARGELY THE AS THOSE OBSERVED IN INCOMING SHIPS, AS ABOUT 69% OF SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR LESS THAN TWO DAYS.

OF

THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 85% IN TONNAGE WAS IMPORTS AND 15% WAS TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

OF

THE

TERMS OF

CARGO

SHIPS, LOADED ONTO OUTGOING

64% WAS EXPORTS TRANSHIPMENT (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) AND 36% WAS CARGO.

TONNAGE CHINA

THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS IN TERMS WERE SINGAPORE (WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR 15%), JAPAN (14%), (12%), TAIWAN (10%), AUSTRALIA (9%), THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA (8%) AND

FOR THE

OF DISCHARGE COUNTRIES (8%); WHILE THE MAJOR

FOR WERE THE U.S.A. (WHICH ACCOUNTED SEABORNE

19%), CHINA (18%), TAIWAN (14%), JAPAN (5%), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (5%), SINGAPORE (4%) AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (3%).

U.S.A. EXPORTS

U.S.A.

CARGO TRANSHIPMENT

AND WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA (32%} (18%), AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED ALSO IN CHINA (20%) U.S.A. (12%).

THE AND THE

(+59%),

COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1991 WITH THE SECOND QUARTER OF FROM 1990, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS THE

U.S.A. OF KOREA (+82%), REPUBLIC

INDONESIA (+72%), THE TAIWAN (+44%) AND THAILAND (+30%). AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE BY 15%.

OF

THE PRINCIPAL AMONG

COMMODITIES, MAJOR INCREASES IN CARGO RESINS AND TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF ARTIFICIAL PLASTIC MATERIALS (+55%), TEXTILE YARN AND THREAD, ALL KINDS {+55%),

PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES OF PAPER,

PAPER

OF PULP,

PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD (+25%), AND COAL, COKE AND BRIQUETTES (+17%); WHILE A MAJOR

RECORDED DECREASE WAS

FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS OF CEMENT CLINKER (-36%).

AND

CEMENT

COMPARING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1991 WITH THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE- EXPORTS) INCREASED BY 21%.

/MAJOR INCREASES