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FREE PORT OF KIEL 
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Mooring and unmooring.—Tariff rates are as follows: Pa 
1,000 tons, gross registery_. 10 
1,000 to 2,500 tons, gross registery 15 
2,500 to 4,000 tons, gross registery_. 00 
1,000 and more two boats... 10 
Steamers in coal trade 10 shillings. In times of ice 50 per cent extra will be 
*harged and also for services rendered in the new harbors below Tollerort. 
Pilotage—Pilotage is payable according to pilotage tariff for the 
Lower Elbe, which is as follows: 
i. From Brunsbuttel to Hamburg: Marks 
Per decimeter of the draft of the ship piloted. ___.__. _____________ 0.90 
Per ton of net capacity of ship, up to and including 1,800 tons... . 02 
Over 1,800 tons to 3,600 tons_ 1. 55 
Over 3,600 tons_...___ _ ceeie . 95 
2. From Hamburg to sea (light ship Elbe III), 140 per cent of above rates. 
3. From Hamburg to Cuzhaven, 120 per cent of above rates. 
' From Hamburg to Brunsbuttel, 90 per cent of above rates. 
From sea to Brunsbuttel, 165 per cent of above rates. 
From Cuxhaven to Brunsbuttel, 55 per cent of above rates and vice versa. 
From Brunsbuttel to sea (lightship Elbe IIT), 110 per cent of above rates. 
From sea to Cuxhaven, 110 per cent of above rates. 
From Cuxhaven to sea (lightship Elbe 111 ), 55 per cent of above rates. 
Winter tariff in foree from October 1 until March 31, both included, involves 
An increase of 25 per cent. Sailing vessels also pay 25 per cent extra. Minimum 
charge from Brumsbuttel to Hamburg, reichsmarks 45; 15 per cent surcharge for 
dilotage under 1 to 4. 
THE FREE PORT OF KIEL, GERMANY 
[From G. Bie Ravndal, American consul general in charge, Hamburg] 
Brief history of the port —Kiel has a population, according to the 
last census of June, 1925, of 213,881. The city itself is situated at 
the juncture of the Kiel Canal and Kiel Bay, which connects with 
the Baltic. The city and harbor are well protected from the winds, 
and are naturally easy to defend because of the narrow entrance to 
the harbor. Kiel claims to have the best harbor on the Baltic coast 
of Germany. 
The city was founded early in the thirteenth century by Count 
Adolf IV of Schauenburg-Holstein and joined the Hanseatic League 
in 1284. Its history is of little importance until it was incorporated 
with Prussia with the rest of Schleswig-Holstein in 1867. after the 
Austro-Prussian War. 
Before the World War Kiel was Germany's Baltic Sea naval base, 
ind was very heavily fortified. Its importance was, of course, 
'nereased by the completion of the Kiel or Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, 
built, 1887-1895, and enlarged and deepened 1909-1915, at a cost of 
50,000,000 marks, to a depth of 11 meters and a surface width of 102 
Meterg * *  *