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

PORT ECONOMICS too evident in the road approaches to the piers and along the waterfront of New York harbour. The weakness of the scheme is that it still proposes to handle practically all the freight now reaching Manhattan across the river, and to maintain a high pressure-on the ferries which is already felt to be excessive. The diversion of any con- siderable portion of the traffic through the tunnel would only result in transferring the congestion to the streets of lower Manhattan. The problem, however, though inter- esting, is peculiar to New York and we cannot afford space to dwell upon it here. Every port more or less has individualistic problems, which can only be dealt with in the light of local conditions. There is one aspect of the subject of Terminals to which attention may be called before leaving the subject. It also is mainly applicable to conditions in America, where the railway systems have not been amalgamated as in this country, resulting in the elimination of a good deal of competition. Writing in 1924, the Chairman of the Port of New York Authority made the following remarks: “ All railroad officers contend that terminals in themselves are unprofitable and require the investment of sums which it is difficult for them to provide ; that their only hope of return is out of the volume of long-haul business that the terminals may enable them to secure. The result of this is a great deal of circuitous routing of freight.” From this point of view, the concentration of all railway terminals at a port in the hands of a single company eliminates the tendency to divert traffic from its most direct route. Considerable trouble has been experienced in America in this respect. ROAD APPROACHES Scarcely less important in its way than the systematiza- tion of rail traffic at a port is the provision of adequate road access to the quayside. In only too many cases the widths of roadways forming the principal lines of traffic RK

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