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

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114 PORT ECONOMICS also sends salt, and Staffordshire pottery, through the Mersey port. The transatlantic service has always been prominent on the Mersey, and, though of late years the passenger traffic has largely been transferred to Southampton, there is a numerous fleet of cargo and intermediate liners which traverse the Atlantic between Liverpool and American ports. Tobacco, sugar, cotton, corn, and provisions are important articles of trade; latterly, there has been a considerable expansion in the oil trade. The dock systems of Liverpool and Birkenhead are very extensive and complete, totalling just over 600 acres of enclosed water area, while the dock quays aggregate 36 miles in length. In contradistinction to London, Liverpool is not a barge port, not more than ro per cent of the goods being dealt with overside. The more modern docks are equipped with railway tracks, both on the quay and behind the transit sheds, and every effort is made to induce the use of these connections. The cartage interest, however, is very powerful and well established, so that a considerable portion of the traffic at the Liverpool Docks is still conveyed by horse-drawn lorries. The warehouse business is important in the city because inland manufacturers are not always in a position, from various causes, to take delivery of consignments direct. MANCHESTER The port of Manchester claims a notice among British ports, not merely on account of its general importance, which is considerable (it ranks fourth in the British Isles), but also and mainly because it is an entirely artificial production due to the enterprise and indefatigable exertions of an energetic body of business men who foresaw an adequate recompense for their efforts at the end of a long period of years. The inception of the port dates from June, 1882, when a preliminary meeting of merchants and

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