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 3 Endeavours have been made to promote ports, for instance, on the South coast of England in admirable situations as regards harbourage, overlooking the consideration that there is no trade inducement to shipping to visit such ports, and the schemes have accordingly fallen through. Unless there is a favourable hinterland ” to a port it cannot prosper. Hinterlands—the term is borrowed from Germany—are tributary areas of various kinds, and we may define them very briefly as contributory and dis- tributory, according as they feed or absorb, i.e. export or import. For exporting purposes, they may consist of coalfields as in South Wales, of wheat-producing regions as in Canada and the Argentine, of ore mining areas as in France and Spain, of manufacturing districts as in Belgium, and so on. For imports, there must either be a large population to be fed and supplied with the necessaries and luxuries of life, or there must be extensive industrial works absorbing large quantities of raw material for manufacture. One or two exceptions may be noted. Southampton is a great port because of its passenger traffic. Travellers arriving from America and anxious to reach London speedily are prepared to disembark at Southampton and finish their journey by train. Unless goods are what is termed ‘‘ perishable goods,” i.e. subject to deterioration through delay, it is not an economical proposition to unload such goods, intended for London, at Southampton, and despatch them by train, in com- parison with the through voyage to their destination, since it involves an additional handling of the goods and the cost of the journey by rail, while the few extra hours of the voyage to the Thames are of little account. Hence Southampton is not at present a great merchandise port. Its hinterland is as yet undeveloped ; it may be developed in course of time. Cherbourg is a notable port of the same kind. It receives a very large proportion of the passenger traffic between Northern Europe and North America, but it 3

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