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

FOREIGN TRADE ZONES sels and on each are two railway tracks. On the bank between them is a loading platform and over this there are eight pneumatic elevators. With these latter eight different part cargoes of grain can be dealt with at the same time and transported in different directions. They may either be weighed automatically on the jetty, put in sacks, and loaded into the train, or transported by means of chutes and dis- charged into barges from a lower levee, or in bulk over automatic weighers, loaded directly into the barges. It is also possible to chute the grain on to rollers and to transport it by this means to the ware- house, after which it can be stored in silos or on the floor or may be forwarded by rail. In the same way grain can be discharged again from the warehouse into seagoing vessels or barges. The capacity of the 16 pneumatic conveyors is about 4,000 to 8,000 tons per 8-hour day, the average annual capacity about 800,000 tons. This capacity may be more than doubled by increasing the working hours. The warehouses for grain are not particularly well equipped for storage over long periods, but are most suited for storage in transit, to equalize any irregularity in the separate consignments from the sea- port to the inland destinations. Nevertheless the warehouses are provided with all apparatus for removing the grain; for example, to take it from one place to the other, or to dry it in hot air. The instal- lation was made during the early years of the war, and an addition is now being carried out. Besides these fixed installations for handling grain, Bremen has also a State-owned grain elevator. Reconsignment and transhipment trade.—In regard to the reconsign- ment as well as to the transshipment trade no special figures are available. The principal commodities in this business, however, are cotton, tobacco, drugs, rice, coffee, grain, and bananas. Manufacturing in free zone.—In the free port zone no manufacturing is done. Various industries, however, have plants just outside of the free zone or on the docks within the customs limits of Germany. Although in olden times Bremen was mainly .a place for staple and transit goods, but was not so important a consumer and industrial user, it has developed during the last few decades, and largely by the construction of its free port, to an important production center. Many industries have settled in and near the city of Bremen owing to the free port. In the State-owned territory Bremen set aside abou? 6,500,000 square meters of territory along the river or its harbors, of which at present about one-third is still available, for industry The main local industries are lumber mills; rice, oil, and flour mills; spinning and weaving mills for cotton and jute; oil refineries; choc olate, rubber, and linoleum factories; iron smelters; and a large ship’ building industry. Shipbuilding and ship repair in free zone.—In regard to shipbuilding and repair work done in the free port zone, the Deschimag (Deutsche 162

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