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

156 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES customs union was fixed for Bremen as October 1, 1888. Up to that date Bremen had to build its own free harbors, which had to be con- structed separately from the other part of the city and harbor terri- tory, if it were to keep up its importance as a harbor for sea-going vessels. This was an easy matter for the port at Bremerhaven, where the harbor already existed, but a different thing altogether for the city of Bremen itself, where the harbors had first to be excavated. For this purpose an area, northwest of the old town, close to the river, known as the St. Stephens Church meadows, was taken. As the town itself reached at that time already as far as that, and houses and streets had been erected on one part of the meadow, several streets had to be replanned or changed, houses had to be torn down, ete., to give the space for the new free harbors. The section of the present free port known as “Freihafen I” was opened to traffic on October 21, 1888. In the course of years, how- ever, the port proved too small for the demands, and another section, known as “Freihafen I,” was constructed and opened in 1906. Description.—The Bremen free ports, Freihiifen I and II, are sit- uated along the river and not far from the center of the city. The dimensions of Freihafen I (free port No. 1) are 2,000 meters (2,188 yards) in length, 120 meters (131 yards) in width, and 60 meters (64 vards) in width at the entrance. Vessels with a draft of 5.7 meters (18 feet 8 inches) are still afloat at mean low water. Twelve sheds—of them, one for general cargo and one for lumber—are situated directly on the quays. In all, they have 90,500 square meters (974,142 square feet) of storage accommo- dations. Behind these are 14 warehouses, with 140,000 square meters (1,506,960 square feet) of storage accommodations. Two railroad tracks are on each quay, and two more are before and behind the warehouses, respectively. On the quays are 96 traveling cranes of a lifting capacity of from 1.5 to 10 metric tons and 15 cranes between the sheds and the warehouses of a lifting capacity of 1.5 tons. As a recent improvement there has been erected beside shed 9A, at the head of harbor I, a heatable fruit shed with 4,500 square meters (48,438 square feet) of floor space that is equipped with the most modern installation for the storage and sorting of fresh fruits. The increasing extension of the fruit trade made this necessary. The dimensions of ““Freihafen TI” (free port No. II) are 1,720 meters (1,882 yards) in length and 110 to 135 meters (120 to 148 yards) in width. It has 3,000 meters (3,282 yards) of quay accommodations. The largest vessels that are able to reach Bremen are still afloat at mean low water. There are 7 sheds on the quays with a total storage accommodation of 80,000 square meters (860,120 square feet); behind these, 2 warehouses with storage accommodations of 27,000 square

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