Singapore Economic Development Board announced on Friday that the city-state's manufacturing output declined by 0.2 percent year on year in September, compared to the revised 3.7 percent increase in August.

This is an end of the eight consecutive months of positive growth in Singapore's manufacturing output, and marks the fourth straight month for the growth rate to decline.

Excluding biomedical manufacturing, Singapore's manufacturing output grew 1.9 percent year on year in September, compared to the 4.2 percent growth in August.

In the first nine months, Singapore's manufacturing output grew 8.2 percent year on year. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, it grew 8.9 percent year on year.

On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, Singapore's manufacturing output fell by 4.9 percent in September. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output fell by 2.4 percent.

In a breakdown and on a year-on-year basis, the electronics cluster's output decreased by 5.5 percent in September, the chemicals cluster's output declined by 7.1 percent, the transport engineering cluster's output jumped by 39.4 percent, the biomedical manufacturing cluster's output dropped by 9.7 percent, the precision engineering cluster's output grew 4.1 percent, and the general manufacturing industries saw their outputs down by 2.7 percent.