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 VI. Port revenues

Collection:: Economics Books

PORT REVENUES 75 from the gross, or the amounts are computed on a lower scale. The Harbour Tonnage Due is a due levied, as above, on all vessels entering a harbour or port. A distinction is made, however, between vessels engaged on long and short voyages, the due being higher, according to distance, for the former than for the latter. Certain special exceptions are made in favour of small coasting vessels, vessels in ballast and without cargo, and vessels simply calling at a port and leaving without discharging any of their cargo. The Dock Tonnage Due is levied in cases where in addition to harbourage, vessels make use of the dock accommodation of a port for the purpose of discharging or taking in cargo. The Dock Tonnage Due may be additional to the Harbour Tonnage Due, or the former may cover the latter. In that case the amount is correspondingly raised. In both the foregoing dues, provision is made for the incidence of rent when the stay in port or in dock exceeds a certain number of days. DUES ON GOODS The second class of dues are rates levied on goods— not for services actually rendered in handling the goods, but as contributions towards the general upkeep of the port and its establishment. Port Rates on Goods, or Tolls, or Town Dues, as they are variously called, are dues levied, in accordance with schedules approved by the Ministry of Transport, on all merchandise arriving at a port, unless dealt with on transhipment terms, i.e. excepting goods transferred direct from an incoming to an outgoing vessel within the port, without change of ownership in the process. DOCK CHARGES ON GOODS In addition to the foregoing rates of a general character, there are special port charges made in respect of the Be

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