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SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1992

SUMMARY RESULTS OF 1990 SURVEY OF TRANSPORT

AND RELATED SERVICES RELEASED

THERE WERE SOME 35,500 TRANSPORT ESTABLISHMENTS IN DURING 1990, VIRTUALLY THE SAME AS IN 1989, ACCORDING TO THE RESULTS OF THE 1990 SURVEY OF TRANSPORT AND RELATED SERVICES TODAY (SUNDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

OPERATION SUMMARY RELEASED

IN 1990, THESE TRANSPORT ESTABLISHMENTS ENGAGED SOME 173,000 PERSONS AND GENERATED $134 BILLION OF BUSINESS RECEIPTS. THEY SPENT $100 BILLION ON OPERATING EXPENSES AND $17.6 BILLION ON COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES.

WHEN COMPARED WITH 1989, THE NUMBER OF PERSONS ENGAGED INCREASED BY 8%; BUSINESS RECEIPTS BY 17%; OPERATING EXPENSES BY 14% AND COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES BY 25%.

ALL VALUE FIGURES ARE EXPRESSED IN CURRENT PRICE TERMS. PERCENTAGE CHANGES DERIVED FROM THESE FIGURES HAVE NOT BEEN ADJUSTED FOR PRICE CHANGES.

THE SECTOR'S VALUE ADDED, WHICH IS A MEASURE OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF AN ECONOMIC SECTOR TO THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, GREW BY 20% FROM $30.9 BILLION IN 1989 TO $37 BILLION IN 1990.

IN 1990, SERVICES INCIDENTAL ΤΟ TRANSPORT, SUCH AS ESTABLISHMENTS ENGAGED IN AIR FREIGHT/SHIPPING FORWARDING, PACKING AND CRATING GOODS FOR TRANSPORTATION, TRAVEL AGENTS AND SHIPBROKERS, HAD THE LARGEST SHARE OF BUSINESS RECEIPTS, ACCOUNTING FOR 44% OF THE SECTOR TOTAL.

THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY AIR TRANSPORT (19%); OCEAN AND COASTAL WATER TRANSPORT (14%); LAND PASSENGER TRANSPORT (9%); LAND FREIGHT TRANSPORT (6%); SUPPORTING SERVICES TO WATER TRANSPORT (5%); INLAND WATER TRANSPORT (2%) AND SUPPORTING SERVICES TO LAND TRANSPORT (1%).

ON THE OTHER HAND, IN TERMS OF VALUE ADDED, AIR TRANSPORT CONTRIBUTED THE LARGEST PORTION, ACCOUNTING FOR 26% OF THE TOTAL VALUE ADDED OF THE SECTOR, FOLLOWED BY LAND PASSENGER TRANSPORT (22%), OCEAN AND COASTAL WATER TRANSPORT (16%); SERVICES INCIDENTAL

ΤΟ TRANSPORT (13%); LAND FREIGHT TRANSPORT (12%); SUPPORTING SERVICES TO WATER TRANSPORT (7%); INLAND WATER TRANSPORT (2%) AND SUPPORTING SERVICES TO LAND TRANSPORT (2%).

IN TERMS OF BUSINESS RECEIPTS, SUPPORTING SERVICES TRANSPORT RECORDED THE LARGEST INCREASE OVER 1989 (53%).

ΤΟ WATER

ACTIVITIES

RESULT OF THE

THE INCREASE WAS MAINLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE BOOMING OF HAULAGE OF CONTAINERS AND CONTAINER LEASING AS A GROWTH IN CONTAINER CARGO HANDLING.

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