Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

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Identifikator:: 1757542078

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-134903

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Studies in securities

Edition:: Revised

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Jas. J. Oliphant & Co.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: 81 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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44 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. kilos (220.46 pounds) per month for such merchandise as metals, marble, and guano, to 65 centimes ($0.125) for furs, pharmaceutical products, and camphor, and, exceptionally, 3.60 francs ($0.694) for essences and essential oils. This warehouse is very conveniently placed for the storage of goods in or out of bond, and offers to intending importers an excel lent opportunity for the preservation of their goods pending sale. Atttlio Piatti, Vice and Acting Consul. Nice, France, August 10, 190V ROUEN. (From United States Consul Haynes, Rouen, France.) BUILDINGS, MANAGEMENT, AND SERVICE. As long ago as 1835 the Rouen Chamber of Commerce constructed two 2-story warehouses in the rear of the principal customs office. These old buildings are still used to some extent for the storage of coffee, pepper, and liquids. The present capacious warehouses of Rouen were built by the city in 1860 facing the principal maritime basin on the right of the Seine, the most important of the buildings being only 75 yards from the wharf. The warehouses are constructed of brick, stone, and iron, are four stories high and receive every kind of merchandise, whether in sacks, cases, barrels, or loose, such as grains. One building is allotted for the storage of domestic sugar alone. On account of the short distance, goods are discharged from ships or railway cars by hand, sacks being carried on the back, cases on trucks, and barrels rolled. Steam windlasses are used to reach stories above the ground floor. All ground-floor space is reserved for liq uids, such as wines, brandies, oils, etc., and for soaps and greases; the first story contains grains, thread, cloth, and divers merchandise necessitating dryness. One building contains vast wooden reservoirs for the reception of wines, and also iron vats for the warehousing of oils, especially heavy mineral oils; the story above is equipped in a manner to permit the rapid and economical emptying of wine into the reservoirs. The iron vats for the mineral oils are filled directly from tank steamers by subterranean pipes. Another depot, consisting of only one story, receives cotton in bales, wools, and divers merchandise. The interior courts of these different warehouses are used for the storage of coal, wood, etc., and are crossed by the side tracks from the railway which passes near. In 1877 the city of Rouen ceded these warehouses to a company called the “ Compagnie des Docks et Entrepôts de Rouen.” The total cost of the land, construction, installation of vats, wind lasses, etc., amounted to about $1,000,000. The surface covered by the buildings and floors is 552,000 square feet, and that of the interior courts, 242,000 square feet.

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