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7. ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC

PRODUCTS, MACHINERY, PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT

8

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1993

159

-1.9

+10.4

AND OPTICAL GOODS

CONSUMER ELECTRICAL

AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS

(127)

(-9.9)

(+19.8)

MACHINERY,

EQUIPMENT,

APPARATUS, PARTS

(219)

(+8.4)

(+4.8)

AND COMPONENTS

8. MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURING

INDUSTRIES

ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

NOTES:

84

-12.5

+3.7

121

-4.0

+12.0

THE IN

1. FOUR SELECTED INDUSTRY GROUPS, WHICH CARRY RELATIVELY

LARGE WEIGHTS AND ARE MAJOR COMPONENTS OF RESPECTIVE BROAD INDUSTRY GROUPS, ARE ALSO INCLUDED THE ABOVE TABLE. FOR EASY READING, THE FIGURES OF THESE SELECTED INDUSTRY GROUPS ARE SHOWN IN BRACKETS.

2. AS FROM THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1992, THE HONG KONG STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION (HSIC) IS USED TO FORM THE INDUSTRY GROUPS AND BROAD INDUSTRY GROUPS PRESENTED IN THE ABOVE TABLE, FOR THE EXACT COVERAGE OF THE GROUPS IN TERMS OF HSIC CODES, PLEASE REFER ΤΟ THE 'REPORT ON THE QUARTERLY INDEX OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION, 2ND QUARTER 1993'.

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SHIPPING AND CARGO STATISTICS OF OCEAN-GOING VESSELS FOR SECOND QUARTER

IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1993, 8,274 OCEAN-GOING VESSELS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 37.9 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS (NRT) ARRIVED AT HONG KONG.

THIS INFORMATION IS CONTAINED IN THE 'HONG KONG SHIPPING STATISTICS REPORT, APRIL - JUNE 1993' PUBLISHED TODAY (THURSDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THE FIGURES REFLECT AN INCREASE OF 23% IN NUMBER OF VESSELS AND 18% IN CAPACITY OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1992.

DURING THE SAME PERIOD, THERE WERE 8,407 OUTGOING OCEAN-GOING VESSELS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 37.4 MILLION NRT, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 21% IN NUMBER AND 17% IN CAPACITY OVER THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1992.

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