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FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1993

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS WAS MILLION TONNES, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 19%.

7.3

NUMBER

OF

AS

OVER THE SAME PERIOD OF COMPARISON, CHANGES IN THE OUTGOING SHIPS BY TYPE, FLAG, AND CAPACITY WERE ABOUT THE SAME THOSE RECORDED FOR INCOMING SHIPS, AS ABOUT 76% OF THE DEPARTING SHIPS STAYED IN HONG KONG FOR FEWER THAN TWO DAYS.

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING SHIPS, 86% IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WERE SEABORNE IMPORTS AND 14% WERE SEABORNE TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

AND 33%

SEABORNE WERE

OF THE CARGO LOADED ONTO OUTGOING SHIPS, 67% WERE EXPORTS (INCLUDING DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND RE-EXPORTS) SEABORNE TRANSHIPMENT CARGO.

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WERE

THE MAJOR COUNTIRES OF LOADING FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS SINGAPORE (WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR 17% IN TONNAGE TERMS) JAPAN (15%), TAIWAN (10%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (9%), AUSTRALIA (8%), CHINA AND THE USA

(8%) (7%); WHILE THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF DISCHARGE FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS WERE CHINA (WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR 24% IN TONNAGE TERMS), THE USA (20%), TAIWAN (11%), JAPAN (4%), THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (4%), SINGAPORE (4%) AND THE NETHERLANDS (3%).

SEABORNE TRANSHIPMENT CARGO WAS MAINLY LOADED IN CHINA TAIWAN (16%) AND THE USA (12%), AND WAS MAINLY DISCHARGED (21%) AND THE USA (16%).

(30%),

IN

CHINA

COMPARING THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1992 WITH THE SAME QUARTER MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS

OF

FROM

(+43%), MAJOR

1991, INDONESIA (+84%), THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (+56%), SINGAPORE AUSTRALIA (+33%), THE USA (+28%) AND TAIWAN (+17%); WHILE A DECREASE IN TONNAGE WAS NOTED FOR SEABORNE IMPORTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA (-55%). AS A WHOLE, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE IMPORTS ROSE BY 15%.

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MAJOR

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES IMPORTED BY SEA, INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT (+69%), PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND RELATED MATERIALS (+49%) MACHINERY (+43%), PAPER, PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES THEREOF (+23%) AND IRON STEEL (+21%); WHILE MAJOR DECREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR SAND AND GRAVE), (-15%) AND CEMENT AND CEMENT CLINKER (-10%).

AND

STONE,

COMPARING THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1992 WITH THE SAME QUARTER OF 1991, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS PLUS RE- EXPORTS INCREASED BY 25%.

MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO CHINA (+76%), THE NETHERLANDS (+59%), THE UNITED KINGDOM (+34%) AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (+24%); WHILE A MAJOR DECREASE RECORDED FOR SEABORNE EXPORTS TO THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (-13%).

WAS

AMONG THE PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES EXPORTED BY SEA, MAJOR INCREASES IN TONNAGE WERE NOTED FOR PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS RELATED

AND MATERIALS (+71%), MACHINERY (+35%), TOYS (+27%) AND OTHER MANUFACTURED ARTICLES (+23%); WHILE A MAJOR DECREASE WAS METALLIFEROUS ORES AND METAL SCRAP (-19%).

NOTED

FOR

/OF THE