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 I. Ports and harbours

Collection:: Economics Books

PORT ECONOMICS unload a ship. In undeveloped countries, such as those of the Orient and Africa, ships are compelled by circum- stances to lie at some distance off shore, and to discharge and receive their goods by means of surf boats and lighters, and this procedure is only practicable in periods of fine weather and calm sea. Whenever rough weather comes on, operations are suspended, and the vessel may even have to put out to sea again for the sake of its own safety. EMBARKING PASSENGERS AT LIVERPOOL LANDING STAGE Such a state of affairs is, of course, not compatible with the economical transaction of commercial routine. It entails delay and expense, waste of time and labour, incomplete and hastily stowed cargoes, and all the dis- advantages of irregular and spasmodic working. Exposure to such conditions, therefore, hardly justifies a claim to the title of Port, though there have been, and still are, cases in which operations unavoidably proceed in this way. Madras, in its earlier history, may be cited as an example. The Coromandel coast of India is a flat, sandy beach, on which the surf beats with relentless violence all the year round. Up to the closing quarter of last century,

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