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THE SPOKESMAN SAID IT WAS GOVERNMENT POLICY THAT FEES SHOULD IN GENERAL BE SET AT LEVELS SUFFICIENT TO RECOVER FULL COSTS OF PROVIDING THE SERVICES.

"THE FEE ADJUSTMENTS WILL HAVE LITTLE IMPACT ON THE COSTS OF THE TRADE.

OPERATING

"THE

REVIEWED FEES FOR SERVICES DESCRIBED ABOVE WERE LAST 1993," HE ADDED.

IN

SHIPPING AND CARGO STATISTICS OF OCEAN-GOING VESSELS FOR FOURTH QUARTER OF 1993

IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1993, 8,357 OCEAN-GOING VESSELS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 38.2 MILLION NET REGISTERED TONS (NRT) HONG KONG.

ARRIVED AT

INFORMATION IS THIS STATISTICS REPORT, OCTOBER CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.

THE

CONTAINED IN

SHIPPING

BY DECEMBER 1993' PUBLISHED TODAY

KONG 'HONG

THE

THE FIGURES REFLECT AN INCREASE OF 8% IN NUMBER OF VESSELS 10% IN CAPACITY OVER THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1992.

AND

DURING THE SAME PERIOD, THERE WERE 8,509 OUTGOING OCEAN-GOING REPRESENTING VESSELS WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 38.9 MILLION (MN) NRT,

5% IN NUMBER AND 10% IN AN INCREASE OF

FOURTH

QUARTER OF 1992.

CAPACITY

OVER THE

OF CARGO INCLUDING

IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1993, THE TOTAL TONNAGE DISCHARGED IN HONG KONG FROM INCOMING OCEAN-GOING VESSELS, SEABORNE IMPORTS AND SEABORNE INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, WAS ESTIMATED TO BE SAME QUARTER 17.5 MN TONNE, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 11% OVER THE IN 1992.

ONTO

WAS

DURING THE SAME PERIOD, THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF CARGO LOADED OUTGOING OCEAN-GOING VESSELS, INCLUDING SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC

PLUS EXPORTS

RE-EXPORTS) AND SEABORNE OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, ESTIMATED TO BE 7.8 MN TONNE, REPRESENTING AN INCREASE OF 14%.

83%

OF THE CARGO DISCHARGED FROM INCOMING OCEAN-GOING VESSELS, IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WERE SEABORNE IMPORTS AND 17% WERE SEABORNE INWARD TRANSHIPMENT, AND 48% IN TERMS OF TONNAGE WERE CONTAINERISED CARGO.

OF

OF THOSE LOADED ONTO OUTGOING OCEAN-GOING VESSELS. 66% IN TERMS PLUS RE-EXPORTS) TONNAGE WERK SEABORNE EXPORTS (DOMESTIC EXPORTS

WERE

87% AND

SEABORNE OUTWARD TRANSHIPMENT, AND 34% TONNAGE WERE CONTAINERISED CARGO.

THE ABOVE STATISTICS ARE SUMMARISED IN TABLE 1.

IN

TERMS OF

IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1993, THE TOP FIVE COUNTRIES OF

CARGO DISCHARGED LOADING FOR

FROM INCOMING OCEAN-GOING VESSELS (INCLUDING

IMPORTS AND SEABORNE INWARD TRANSHIPMENT} SEABORNE

JAPAN SINGAPORE

ACCOUNTED FOR 16% IN TONNAGE TERMS), (WHICH CHINA (13%), TAIWAN (12%) AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA (8%).

WERE

(14%),

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