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 obviously not very durable); and slicework, in which moderately-sized concrete blocks are inclined at an angle to the horizontal so as to permit of settlement without disturbance of adjacent parts. Although an essential feature of harbour construction and an undoubted necessity in the case of ports situated on an exposed coastline, the subject of breakwaters cannot now be discussed at any length. In its engineering aspect, it will be found treated in other works by the writer, to which reference is made in the Preface. ACCOMMODATION We have so far dealt with the physical conditions affecting ports. We have now to consider the commercial side of the matter and discuss the various features which are associated with what we have termed Accommodation, in other words, facilities and opportunities for carrying on trading operations. A harbour by itself or in the undeveloped condition, does not suffice for all the require- ments of a port, which, as already indicated, must include convenient and continuous accessibility, and means for the landing and loading of goods and for the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers. Quays, alongside which ships can berth ;: sheds and warehouses, in which goods may be temporarily deposited; cranes and appliances for handling the goods between ship and shore; service roads and railway tracks, with vehicles appropriate to each system of transport; repairing depots—these and many other features are essential appanages of ports from the trading side, and it is at this point that it will be well to consider the port in its relation to commercial operations. PORT SERVICES A port, we have explained, is a connecting link between land and sea traffic; its shipping and land services will accordingly be co-ordinated to this end, and will radiate 1 Chiefly, The Principles and Practice of Harbour Engineering. ~

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