Foreign trade zones (or free ports)

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Part 2. The free ports of Europe

Collection:: Economics Books

FREE PORT OF COPENHAGEN 85 vessels in the domestic trade, the bay southward being too shallow for large seagoing craft. Vessels which visit the free port and there- after proceed to Baltic ports or the Kiel Canal round the small island of Amager and follow the Drogden Channel which parallels the east coast of that island until the deeper waters of the Baltic are reached. The total land area of the free port is 128 acres, and the water area 82.5 acres. There are five basins with piers running their full length appropri- ately equipped with cranes for loading and discharging vessels and skirted by railroad tracks. A sixth basin, representing the northern- most extension of the free port, was constructed just after the war to take care of the increased traffic which it was believed would flow to Copenhagen after the settling of Europe to a peace basis, but the ex- Pectations which gave rise to its creation were not realized, and this basin remains unequipped and not even inclosed in the free port. The total length of the piers in use is 5,220 yards. The docks are paralleled by railroad tracks and goods may be transferred to cars either direct from the holds of vessels, or from the warehouses which lie adjacent. The depths of the different basins and the length of the piers adjacent are as follows: Name East Basin... West Basin ___ IIIT Middle Basin __T1TTTTTTTTTT Depth Feet 30 26 26 Length of piers Yards 1,295.7 1,004. € 615.7 Name North Roadstead. ooo ooomnae-. Kronelgbs Basin ..o...o..._.__. Yew Basin... Depth Feet 26 31.2 29 | Length of piers Yards 1,000. 1 1,007.6 The hoisting equipment consists of 40 electric cranes having from 13% to 214 metric tons capacity, 7 steam cranes, one 20-ton crane, 4 Pheumatic grain tubes, 3 grain elevators, and 7 coal elevators, and in addition the general harbor authorities have a floating crane of a Capacity of 50 tons which is always readily available for use in the freq port. The warehouses are equipped with numerous freight Elevators for distributing goods to the upper floors. One series of Warehouses has galleries running their length along and over the Quays to which cargoes can be delivered from and to the holds of Vessels and thence by hand trucks to the second and third stories. The elevators and the pneumatic tubes on the outside of the older Brain silo, working together in discharging grain from the same ship, have a capacity of from 1,200 to 1,400 tons per working day of tight hours, while approximately 100 tons per hour can be discharged from another ship moored on the opposite side.

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Foreign trade zones (or free ports)

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation