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 5 and that, in its furthermost limits, a hinterland may even be common to several ports. When this is the case, the question of competition arises, and the port-which succeeds in attracting the greater amount of traffic will obviously flourish at the expense of its neighbours. IMPORTANCE OF OVERSEAS TRADE To an island community, such as Great Britain, the importance of overseas trade admits of no dispute. With its population of between forty and forty-five million people, all requiring to be fed and clothed, and with insufficient inland resources to produce anything like the quantities of food and raiment necessary for so great a multitude, it is obvious that supplies must be obtained from abroad, and equally obvious that exports of various kinds, coal and manufactured goods, must be sent in return in order to maintain a rough balance of payment— though the intricacies of modern commercial operations are so great that it is possible that the cost of a sack of imported grain may be defrayed from the passage money of an emigrant from Italy to South America. The position of Great Britain, with its numerous centres of industry and its relatively small engagement in agricul- tural pursuits, is a source of anxiety. There is rarely more than six weeks supply of food available in the country, depending, as the country does, on the regularity of supplies from abroad. This was its vulnerable point during the war, and its antagonists, well aware of the fact, sought to take the fullest advantage. If the sub- marine campaign had been successful, Great Britain, powerful and patriotic as she is, would have been starved into ignominious surrender. It is an obvious point for consideration whether the storage of foodstuffs in this country should not be materially increased to guard against contingencies which may arise at any time, perhaps, and even very likely, from a totally unexpected quarter. There is ample storage accommodation available. Many I

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