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Table 5: Seaborne outward cargo (1) by top ten principal commodities

Commodity group

1st quarter

1995

% share(2)

('000 tonnes)

% change over

1st quarter 1994

Machinery

967

11

+33

Other manufactured goods classified

898

10

+22

chiefly by material

Other manufactured articles

667

+38

Petroleum, petroleum products and

$13

6

+27

related materials

Other chemicals and related products

357

4

+38

Articles of apparel and clothing

355

4

+1

accessories

Textile yarn, fabrics, made-up articles

347

+1

and related products

Toys

344

+30

Footwear

335

+17

Crude animal and vegetable materials

283

+22

Notes: (1) Seaborne outward cargo comprises seaborne exports and seaborne outward

transhipment.

(2) % share is the share in tonnage terms with respect to the total tonnage of seaborne

outward cargo.

End/Friday, July 28, 1995