PORT ORGANIZATION I
A Controller, Accountant or Treasurer for financial affairs ;
A Traffic Manager or a Commercial Manager for business
negotiations ;
A Harbour Master to supervise the reception and
manceuvring of shipping ;
A Docks Manager, or Superintendent, in charge of the
docks or berths; and
A Solicitor to deal with legal questions.
The executive functions of the Authority will be divided
among these various officers, and they, in their turn, will
have assistants upon whom will devolve the control of
minor affairs. To assist the Chief Engineer, or perhaps
independent of him, there will be a Mechanical Engineer,
an Electrical Engineer, and, possibly, a Marine Engineer,
attending to matters which are designated by their
titles. The Commercial Manager will be aided by a
staff of Canvassers. The Harbour Master will have
subordinate Dockmasters, and the Docks Manager a
local Superintendent at each dock, and so on.
It would be impracticable to follow such an organization
throughout its different official grades, and we must
content ourselves in this chapter with allusion to a few of
the more important departments specially associated with
the port administration from the economic point of view.
1. The Collection of Rates, Dues and Charges is one of the
most important functions of a port authority, since it is
dependent on these imposts for its income and existence.
As explained in Chapter VI, various rates are levied on
incoming and outgoing ships and goods in order to meet
the expenses of upkeep, maintenance, administration and
development of a port. The collection of these rates is
entrusted to a staff of collectors, who are empowered by
statutory provision to enter any vessel on arrival at a
port, in order to ascertain the rates payable, although
this step is rendered unnecessary, in ordinary routine,
by the statement presented and certified by the master
or the owners, giving full particulars and showing the

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