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

PORTS AND HARBOURS | in all available directions. Inland, these auxiliary services will consist of— (@) Railways for long distance traffic ; (b) Roadways for vehicular traffic, locally ; and even economically by motor lorry for distances up to about 50 miles ; (c) Rivers and natural waterways, taking advantage of such natural transportation forces as tide, wind and current ; (d) Canals and artificial waterways with animal or mechanical propulsion. Seaward, the port is the starting point and home base of — (a) Liners, or steamships (and motor vessels) carrying on regular services with other ports ; (b) Tramps, or vessels chartered for specific voyages, which vary for each occasion, as trade requires ; (c) Coasters, operating between adjacent ports, or between a main port and its outlying or daughter ports ; (d) Special class vessels, such as colliers, oil tankers, and the like, engaged in particular forms of trade. Bearing these considerations in mind, we may now ask ourselves what is the best situation for a port, so that it may fulfil its dual distributive functions to advantage. PORT LOCATION In accordance with their location, ports have received distinguishing prefixes. Those on the seaboard are called Seaports ; those on the banks of rivers, River Ports ; those on the shores of large inland lakes or seas (such as the Great Lakes of North America) are known as Lake Ports; and those, such as Manchester and Bruges, which are reached by important artificial waterways, as Canal Ports. Ports, as a matter of fact, are to be found in almost every conceivable locality—except, perhaps, in the midst of a range of mountains! Strange as it may seem, the most remote and inland countries of Europe possess ports

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