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 on the banks of rivers, by which access may be obtained to the seas and the great ocean highways. Basle, for instance, on the borders of Switzerland and over 450 miles from the sea, is a port for barges and light river craft, and it even aspires to the rank of a seaport, in that it desires to receive vessels capable of navigating open water. The advantage, indeed, of an actual seaboard, to a country in regard to its foreign trade, is incalculable. More than one war, in recent times, has been caused by the en- deavours of a landlocked nationality to find an outlet to the coast. But a position on the coast-line is not an unmixed blessing to a port, as we have already seen. The exposure to violent storms entailed by such a location necessitates a heavy expenditure on protective works, all of which has to be defrayed out of trading profits, either directly, through the charges of the port authority, or indirectly, to the State in the form of taxation. As indicated above, many ports are situated on the banks of rivers at varying distances inland. Some are at the mouths of rivers, such as Liverpool, Dublin, Bremen, and hence may be distinguished as Estuary Ports.? Other ports are situated some distance from the river mouth. London is about 50 miles from the sea; so is Antwerp ; Rouen is a thriving French port on the Seine about 80 miles from the English Channel ; Cologne, a German port on the Rhine, is some 200 miles from the North Sea; and Basle, mentioned above, also on the Rhine, is over 450 miles from the sea. Naturally, when the distance from the sea is considerable, the navigable channel does not admit of the passage of the larger class of vessels characteristic 1 The term Estuary is a little vague, but without being pedantically precise, it covers roughly the extent of the river which is appreciably affected by the tide—that is, the portion in which there is tidal flow, in and out. This admittedly cannot strictly apply to rivers flowing into a * tideless ” sea, such as the Medi- terranean, but it suffices to explain the idea in a general way. It is the region of ‘ turbulence” (Lat. @stuare, to seethe, or boil), in which there is conflict between effluent and influent waters. 10

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