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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Title:: South America

Collection:: Economics Books

BRITISH GUIANA. 165 steamers through the dock company’s warehouses and thence through the hands of the custom-house officials, and are stored either in the dock company’s warehouses or in the custom-house (except very heavy machinery) until the consignee takes charge of them. The facilities for transport of goods from and to steamers are excellent—twelve large warehouses, plenty of cranes, more than a mile of tine docks, and all modern and up-to-date conveniences. A steamer can discharge on an average HOG to 500 tons in an ordinary working day—say, working two hatches. Coffee, which embraces more than nine-tenths of all the exports from this port and which is put on board by manual labor from the carts in the street, can be loaded at the rate of more than 1,000 tons a day. It is difficult to ascertain charges on goods loaded or Unloaded. The steamers pay the dock company 2.50 milreis« (62 cents) per ton of cargo discharged and 700 reis per running meter (89.37 inches) per day for wharfage. Then, also, the goods pay custom-house warehousing, for packages weighing 50 kilos (110.2 pounds) or less, 200 reis (4.96 cents) each, and 100 reis for each additional 10 kilos (22 pounds). This port is regarded as very expensive for steamers. J. II. Johnson, Consul. Santos, Brazil, August 8,1904. BRITISH GUIANA. (From United States Consul Moulton, Georgetown, British Guiana.) The colonial bonded warehouse at this port is owned and con ducted by the Government, and the bonded receiving stores and private bonded warehouses by local merchants. Local government officials are unable to state even approximately the dimensions and original cost of the buildings, which cover a large area of quay. The Government bonded warehouse contains 51,043 superficial feet of storage space and has an upper and a lower story. In the upper fiat are stored all imported wines and spirits in cases or casks. The lower floor is used for imported general merchandise, including hogsheads of leaf tobacco, and for casks of rum of local origin. Transit packages are rarely put into this building, being kept in receiving bonded warehouses to save cost of shifting packages as well as Government charges for storage rent and porterage. Goods are, however, withdrawn from this warehouse for shipment elsewhere, under bond, without being subject to any duty or other charge except for storage rent and porterage. Goods are allowed to remain in this warehouse for an unlimited period, provided that owners pay quar terly rent regularly. In default of this the goods are sold at public auction for the amount of the rent, purchasers to pay duties and porterage upon removing their goods. Patrons are allowed ten days’ free storage and exemption from charges for receiving and subsequent delivery of all goods to their «According to the Report of the United States Director of the Mint, the value of the Brazilian milreis (gold) was r>4.0 cents on July 1, 1004. The value used by the consul was evidently that of the paper milreis, the currency generally in use, at the time—24.8 cents.

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