Foreign trade zones (or free ports)

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Identifikator:: 1801857903

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-199077

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Foreign trade zones (or free ports)

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: United States Government Printing Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: IX, 322 S; Ill., graph. Darst

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part 1. General analysis

Collection:: Economics Books

FOREIGN TRADE ZONES from whatever cause, reduces the annual cargo capacity and increases the cost per ton. The reduction of time and expense in port is one of the objects to be attained through the elimination of customs for- malities and the more expeditious loading and discharging of vessels in free ports as compared with customs ports. In the free port of Copenhagen it is found that, on an average, 25 tons of goods in sacks, 15 tons to 20 tons of miscellaneous merchandise, and approximately 15 tons of oil cake are discharged per hour and that from 1,200 to 1,400 tons of grain are discharged per day of eight hours. There are no figures available to make a comparison between the discharge capacity in the free port and the general harbor, but it is generally understood that the faster service obtains in the free port. At the free port of Malmo, where the most modern equipment for loading and unloading goods is available, quicker dispatch can be obtained than in the general harbor. The free port is equipped with nine traveling cranes of from 214 to 5 tons capacity, which are oper- ated by electricity. Six of these cranes are situated on the quay in front of and east of the warehouse. By means of these cranes goods can be discharged direct from the vessel to any of the floors or the basement of the warehouse. The other three cranes, each of 3 to 5 tons capacity, are erected on the quay, west of the warehouse, and are constructed for discharging cargo. Other facilities, such as hoists in the warehouse and weighing machines for wholesale quantities, contribute to quicker dispatch in the free harbor than in the customs harbor. On account of the up-to-date equipment at the free port of Stock- holm, vessels are loaded and unloaded there as fast or faster than at the other terminals of the harbor, giving a quick turn-around for ships. It is said that the ordinary time required for loading 1,000 tons of cargo in an ocean freighter is eight hours. The dispatch secured in loading and unloading vessels in the free harbor of Gothenburg is equal to that in the general or customs harbor. The free port of Hamburg takes a great deal of pride in its loading and unloading equipment. In the installation of such equipment the principle of combining the utmost possible speed in the handling of cargo with the provision of every safeguard for its protection against damage has been applied. The authorities at Hamburg have used every effort to eliminate all delays and no expense has been spared to keep the port abreast of the times in such development. There are 1,915 hoisting appliances available for transshipment purposes, 12 stationary heavy-lift cranes on shore, 916 traveling quay cranes on water side of quay sheds, 178 stationary cranes near quay sheds, 123 floating steam winches, 22 floating cranes, and many other cranes, float- ing coal and grain elevators in the free harbor. Statistics are not avail- 72

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