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 II. Explanation of terms used in connection with ports and harbours

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PORT ECONOMICS Although the foregoing is of the nature of an intro- duction, it really brings us right into the heart of the subject, the two words which perhaps can claim prior attention, viz., “ port” and ‘ harbour,” having already been discussed, so that it is unnecessary to refer to either of them again in this connection. DOCK Continuing, therefore, to deal with the word Dock, the fundamental divergence in meaning of which on the two sides of the Atlantic has just been indicated, we find, as a matter of fact, that the word has a variety of significations in the English language,! and even when restricted to the domain of port terminology, it has several distinct applica- tions, so that it is very difficult to define it concisely. As associated with ports, it is used with the following qualifications— Wet dock. Dry dock. Graving dock. Floating dock. Slip dock. Under these conditions all that can be said about the word as regards its general signification in port terminology is that it is, in some sense or other, a receptacle for shipping. The Greek original, Soy, signified a receptacle. Were it permissible, one would like to add to this that it is a com- pletely enclosed receptacle, so as to distinguish it from the term Basin which, in turn, would then be a receptacle for shipping which is not completely enclosed. Unfortunately, the terms Basin and Dock are very much confused, and used interchangeably for the same thing. Thus, at Glasgow, the Prince’s Dock, the Rothesay Dock and the Queen’s Dock are, strictly speaking, Basins, and not Docks 1 Cf. any dictionary on this point. It means a place for criminals in a police court, the tail of a beast cut short, a genus of plants, etc. IR

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