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 X. Some typical ports

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER X SOME TYPICAL PORTS We will conclude the review of our subject with a brief survey of some of the more notable ports of the world and their leading characteristics. STANDARDS OF COMPARISON The standards by which the importance and prosperity of ports are measured are various, and it is not easy to effect an altogether satisfactory comparison or to make an accurate statement of rank and order. In estimating its position, each port naturally takes the standard which is most favourable from its own point of view. We will mention some of these standards in order to point out their relative values. 1. The number of ships visiting a port during a year is obviously so misleading, in that it makes no distinction whatever between the smallest sized craft and large ocean-going liners, that it is rarely, if ever, adopted. 2. The tonnage of shipping, recorded at a port as having visited it and paid port dues, is more generally acceptable. It does give due weight to the size and importance of the vessels. On the other hand, it has the defect that ships put in to ports on various grounds, not merely for the usual turn-round, but also for casual reasons, including stress of weather, and many call for the purpose of receiving or discharging part cargoes only, some of them perhaps relatively very small consignments indeed. A number of calls of this kind will soon inflate a port’s returns. Then, a large vessel may occasionally come specially to a port on account of its possessing a suitable graving dock for repairs. The tonnage of shipping visiting a port cannot, therefore, be considered altogether as a reliable criterion 107

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