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 BREMEN meters (290,628 square feet), and 3 or 4 railroad tracks on each quay, as well as 3 between the sheds and the warehouses. On the quays are 64 traveling cranes of a lifting capacity of 2.5 tons and 5 of a lifting capacity of 5 tons; also 6 cranes of lifting capacity of 1.5 tons between sheds and warehouses. Rail and highway connections.—Both harbors are connected with the Bremen Railway. The railways in the harbor are owned and operated by the free State of Bremen. Their total trackage amounts to 170 kilometers (106 miles), with two large freight stations in the harbor territory and two locomotive sheds for 24 heavy engines. Both harbors are also easily accessible from the city, tram cars running right up to the free harbor, though it is within easy walking distance of the commercial center of the city. Highways available for motor transport radiate from Bremen to all parts of Germany. Administration.—A characteristic of the Bremen seaport traffic is the cooperation of a large number of independent undertakings. Three means of communication—railroads, vessels, and motor trans- port—are found in the harbor. The harbor is, for the shipping and forwarding organizations, the place of transshipment. To those interested in the goods themselves, the harbor gives the opportunity to inspect, to receive, or to deliver them. The harbor is thus a place for business dealings with the goods, their warehousing, and their reception and delivery. The traffic of the Bremen port had to be organized in consideration of these three points of view. The port, as part of the waterways, is regulated in its operations by the port regulations. These contain the regulations of the traffic police, which protect the harbor from dangerous or inadvisable uses being made of it by vessels. The harbor master superintends the carrying out of the regulations, and his subordinate officials, the harbor inspectors, render the necessary assistance in making fast. As the improvement of the harbors, in consequence of the modern developments of shipbuilding, requires great expenditures, port dues are charged, which are collected by the harbor office. In naturally difficult dock basins or those which, owing to their construction, are difficult to navigate special harbor pilots are employed. The port, as part of the railway, is served by the harbor railway as a general public one. In spite of this, the German National Railway (Reichsbahn), as well as the former Prussian State Railway, refuses to acknowledge it as such, except where it has forced itself through in the single ports in the course of the historical development. The consequence is an extremely varicolored picture in the different German places, very detrimental to competition with foreign ports. In Bremen the harbor railway is the property of and is worked by the Bremen State: in Hamburg the German National Railway man- 157

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