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 2. The free ports of Europe

Collection:: Economics Books

FREE PORT OF COPENHAGEN 95 W harves—quays in the Copenhagen free port Name Construction East Whart_________.. ite | South Wharf East___.| Concrete and granite on piles. East Silo Wharf !___|._._.cav oo... West Silo Wharf 1 __J|12070 TL TTI South Wharf West 1__|___. 2. West Wharf_._._.___|/727] wn gs Railroad Wharf... _.|.__. Be Middle Wharf ____701007C - Coal Wharf1.______ Lumber Wharf i. North Wharf sr nlVl Bim to RRR Wooden construction... Jonerote and granite 3 , on piles. RN o and Wharf... Wooden construction ort Wharf _ Iron concrete cais- sons—granite. Whart__________. elven or aw i Sound Wharf... ....do.... Length Width of water front Total width Rails on water front Meters | Meters ' Meters 816 | 8.87-1 62.8 | 12] 9.42 sel esl mv 313.8 | 11.12 313.8 | 11.12 94.2! 9.18 596.3 | 12.55 133.41 100 - 41.2] 13.34 100.0 15.0” 392.3 13.16 188.3 12.7 156.9! 9.8 67.01 9.° 240 ©5 316.6 v.5 56.5 2 56.5 2 5 Ace 87.6 2? + —— 51.5 i 172.6 < 172. t rr Rails mehind build- ings Num- ber of electric cranes Depth a—— 5 | 8.1 ——— & 8.2 1 euewgpys 8.2 1 11] 82-¢" ry am oma 251 L from] - 22 2-41 17 Meters 9.1 9.1 75 7.& 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.8 9.5 9.5 95 ! Piers: The hoisting equipment consists of 40 electric cranes having from 134 to 23% Tai ttony sapalihs 4 Dneumatic grain tubes, 3 grain and 7 coal elevators, In addition, the general harbor authorities have a oating crane of 50-tons capacity which is always readily available for use in the free port. oal cranes. COPENHAGEN FREE PORT—LAW OF MARCH 31. 189138 ArticLe 1. Under the direction of the Copenhagen port commission a free Port for commercial and industrial purposes will be constructed on the western Side of the interior roadstead (bay) of Copenhagen immediately north of Kastel P oint, with its corresponding lands, which in regard to customs and production ‘axes will be considered as foreign territory. The free port will have two basins. The one to the south will have a width at its base of 780 feet. The dike, by means of which this basin will be sepa- rated from the interior bay, will be of 3,000 feet, and, in so far as possible, wilt be constructed in a straight line with a continuous width of 250 feet. The territory of the free port will be limited to the west by the railroad men- tioned in article 2, and will be situated in such a way that the branch west of the northern port will be on land belonging to the Copenhagen port commission. The free port will be connected with the customhouse by means of an inclosed Wall which will pass through the citadel Frederickshavn. Lands adjacent to the free port can be included in the free port, and still Continue to be private property, in accordance with a special agreement with the company mentioned in article 3 and subject to ratification by the legislative Power, Arr. 2, The secretary of the interior is authorized to construct a railroad from the free port to the Copenhagen customhouse, passing through the Vogn- Man market until it reaches the Nordsjaelland railroad, and a classification Station alongside of the free port. _ All these improvements will be considered from every point of view as form- ‘0g a part of the system of State railways. The secretary of the interior is equally authorized to conclude all the arrange- Reairle necessary to obtain for the State railways the areas necessary for the uture construction of a railroad over the existing dike at the extreme western hy ds CW in report of United States Tariff Commission, Information Concerning Free Zones in Ports od States, issued in 1919.

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