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

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Identifikator:: 863514456

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-45340

Document type:: Monograph

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

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1905

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (206 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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SWITZERLAND: GENEVA. 99 (11,023 pounds), the difference in rent depending on the bulk or apparent value of the merchandise. For lots of less than 5,000 kilos the rent is paid according to special agreement. The highest rent is charged for cotton wadding and for feathers in bales and the lowest for grain in bags and for certain metals. For receiving or deliver ing the merchandise the company charges from 8 ore (2.14 cents) to 30 ere (8 cents) per 100 kilos. The highest labor charges are de manded for cinnamon in boxes and the lowest for flour in bags and for pig iron. For weighing the goods a fee is charged of 3 ore (0.8 cent) for each 100 kilos, but not less than 10 ore (2.08 cents) for each parcel weighed. The cost of handling the merchandise outside of the warehouses can not be stated, because it varies so greatly. If the goods arrive by a steamer small enough to enter the harbor and moor at the quay or wharf, and if the goods are to be stored in a warehouse located close to the wharf, the cost will be small. If the vessel is too large to enter the harbor proper, the goods will have to be loaded into barges for transportation into the city, which will increase the costs, and if the warehouse to be used is located far from the wharf they will be heavier. 'For transportation of goods within the city the average charge is about 1 crown ($0,268) per one-horse load, it being more or less according to distance it is to oe transported. As the arrangements in the above respects do not seem to be mod ern, I do not consider it necessary to go more into details. Robert S. S. Bergh, Consul. Gottenborg, Sweden, September 16, 190If. SWITZERLAND. GENEVA. (From United States Consul Washington, Geneva, Switzerland.) In a preceding report concerning stored goods as collateral for loans,« I stated that there was in Geneva an association called the Society charged with running the warehouses of the State of Geneva,” organized in 1888, under the control of State authorities a nd the Federal custom-house, and that this association put at the dis position of Geneva tradespeople its two warehouses, where goods could ho stored on their arrival from foreign countries, and left there without paying customs duties until taken out or reshipped. This association has two bonded warehouses in Geneva—one in the town and the other in the railway station. The first is practically S( luare in shape and measures about 100 yards on each side, while the ( 'Oe in the railroad station (Cornavin) is quite three times as large. Ihe company was founded in 1888, in accordance with a Genevese 1&W, and its capital now amounts to 1,700,000 francs ($328,100). The Warehouses are, as stated before, operated under the supervision of the Geneva authorities, by a board of directors. There are also a Manager and a submanager. I’lie net profits for the calendar year 1903 amounted to 94,000 « Published in Special Consular Reports, vol. xxv, page 70.

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