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Overseas Cargo Statistics


Year ended June 2007

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Highlights


Cargo by weight:

  • The weight of export cargo was 23.0 million tonnes in the year ended June 2007, up 5.2 percent from the June 2006 year.

 

  • The weight of import cargo was 18.5 million tonnes, up 2.1 percent.

 

  • An increase in pine logs accounted for 82.4 percent of total export cargo weight increase.

Cargo by value:

  • The value of export cargo was $35.7 billion in the year ended June 2007, up 8.4 percent from the June 2006 year.

 

  • The value of import cargo was $39.9 billion, up 6.8 percent.

 

  • The increase in value of import cargo was led by mineral fuels.



 

Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
20 September 2007
ISSN 1178-2838


There is a companion Media Release published  – Overseas Cargo Statistics: Year ended June 2007.

 

 



  Overseas Cargo Statistics: Year ended June 2007 (pdf)



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