Port economics

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Identifikator:: 173564191X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-111718

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, Brysson http://d-nb.info/gnd/1055472266

Title:: Port economics

Place of publication:: London [usw.]

Publisher:: Pitman

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: IX, 134 S

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. The port as a "terminal"

Collection:: Economics Books

£3 PORT ECONOMICS considering how the railway lines of a port may be worked in conjunction with the quayside services of a port is of the utmost importance. At all modern docks and quays, wherever it is a practicable arrangement, there are laid along the quay front two or more lines of rail track for the purpose of receiving goods direct from ship, and usually also at the rear of the transit sheds, one or more additional lines, to receive goods which have been passed through the sheds for sorting purposes. In England, the wagons on these lines, when loaded, are taken to a Dock Exchange Sidings, which is a set of sidings consisting of a number of parallel tracks, commonly called a gridiron, especially laid out for the reception and marshalling of wagons and the formation of trains for dispatch. Wagons arrive at these sidings, either loaded with material for shipment, or empty for the purpose of receiving imported goods, the ideal being, of course, to have the wagons laden in both directions. The exchange sidings, in the case of British ports, mark the stage at which transfer takes place between railway operation and dock operation. To and from inland stations as far as the sidings, the wagons and their contents are under the charge and direction of the railway companies. Between the sidings and the quay, the port authority assumes control. The practice as to motive power is slightly varied. Generally, the port authority provide locomotives to haul over their tracks, but some- times, the railway companies do the work under arrange- ment, and, if they are the dock owners, there is obviously no change of control. The foregoing represents the practice which is character- istic of British port methods. The port authority (unless it happens to be a case of docks under railway ownership) do not concern themselves with the incoming or outgoing traffic, except in the immediate vicinity of the quays. The selection of routes, and the convergence or divergence of 4

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