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 CUXHAVEN 167 . Beconsignment trade.—The major portion of merchandise unloaded In the Bremerhaven free zone is for reconsignment, chiefly to Bremen and inland points. The principal commodities imported from the United States are cotton, flour, grain, tobacco, lumber, lard, and fresh fruits. The United Kingdom furnishes chiefly coal, while bananas are imported for transshipment from the West Indies. Transshipment trade.—The transshipment trade at Bremerhaven is not very extensive. Small quantities of flour and dried fruit from the United States are transshipped to Scandinavian countries, and bananas from the West Indies are also transshipped to Norwav and Sweden. Manufacturing in free zone.—There are no manufacturing indus- tries in the free zone area of Bremerhaven. } Shipbuilding and ship-repair facilities —The only ship-repair facili- ties available in the free zone area of Bremerhaven are those of the North German Lloyd Steamship Co. These yards are well equipped and offer their facilities to all vessels which need repairs while at this port. Influence of free port in trade and merchant marine. —The establish- Ment of this free port has had a marked influence on the increase in trade and merchant marine at Bremerhaven. The statistics given below show the net registered tonnage of Vessels entering this port between the vears 1831 and 1926: Yaar 831 18g 777mm S80. 860-0 870 177 88y_ "77" I8gp ~~" Shipping entered, net regis- ered tons 50,07 100, 000 150, 000 300, 60 “50 [,000 ... 1. 300. 000 Year B00... 910.._.._... Gil. M2 Js — Lain 1915... Shipping 2ntered, net regis- ered tons 1, 450, 00, ', 950, 000 , 100, 000 2, 300, 000 2, 400, 000 1, 100, 000 DIONE] Year Nbc cpu OF] es nsmmw HE cess 919... 920 cco. Meee Shipping entered, net regis- ered tons 300, 00C 450, 000 600, 000 400, 000 650, 00 1, 500, 00( 2 000. 000 Year 928 oe... 1924... O25. WO_... Shipping entered, net regis- tered tons 2, 150, 000 2, 100, 000 1, 900, 000 2, 700, 000 Additional statistics on the port of Bremerhaven have been for- Varded and included in the report on the city of Bremen furnished by the American consulate at Bremen, Germany. THE FREE PORT OF CUXHAVEN, GERMANY [From G. Bie Ravndal, American consul general fn charge, Hamburg} NovemsER 10, 1928. Brief history of the port—Cuxhaven as a free port was never of ny importance until the last century, although the first dykes were Probably built during the eleventh century. Throughout the Middle Ages it was a Province of Hamburg, being part of the bailiwick of Rittsbitel, It has always been a port subordinate to Hamburg 47068°—920— 192

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