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

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ve PORT ECONOMICS work carried on at different quays. It would serve no useful purpose, for instance, to institute a comparison between the tonnage of coal and the tonnage of sacked or bagged goods, because they are handled in totally different ways and a much greater rate of speed is attain- able in one case than in the other. But berths assigned to the same class of goods—even so wide a range as is com- prised in the term General Goods—may be contrasted with useful results. Where there is a discrepancy in two cases, it may be that delays are caused in one case by insufficient or ineffective appliances, a defect which is quite remediable. INDUSTRIAL ZONES Some port authorities find useful sources of revenue arising from the letting of sites for industrial purposes; indeed, the establishment of industrial zones in the immediate vicinity of a port is a distinctive feature of modern lay-out, it being recognized that such zones serve as feeders to the business of the port and foster its develop- ment. At the same time, they should not be allowed to occupy valuable frontage space, but should be located a little in the background, with such rail, road and water communication as is desirable and necessary. There is a considerable area of this kind under development at Trafford Park, Manchester, adjacent to the Manchester and Salford Docks, where, in addition to an important group of warehouses and stores, a large number of works and factories are springing up. A similar project is in course of materialization at the new port of Venice—the Industrial Port, as it is termed—located on the mainland and connected with the ancient port by a channel across the lagoon. Other instances might be adduced, but the advantage of the arrangement is obvious. FREEPORT AREAS These industries and factories may be established in connection with those port areas which are known as KR

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