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

168 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES both politically and commercially, and such is its status to-day. It is now used chiefly as a port of distress, a fishing port, and a landing station for the Hamburg-American Line passenger vessels, passengers being transported by special trains from Cuxhaven to Hamburg, thus saving them the 65 mile trip up the river by boat. * * * * Dimensions and area of free zones—The free port is very small, comprising only 207.8 acres. * * * Terminals and berthing space.—The free port has only 600 meters of quay length, though vessels can be anchored in the free port area. There are only eight cranes in the free port. Warehouses, number and capacity. — There are only two sheds in the free port, having an area of 3,915 square meters (42,141 square feet) One of these sheds is used for the fish trade. Rail and highway connections.—Cuxhaven has good railway con- nections with the German railway system and is also connected by good automobile roads with Hamburg. How controlled and operated.—The Cuxhaven free harbor is under the administration of the Hamburg free port officials. Guards. —There are no special guards kept in the free harbor and it is policed by the ordinary Cuxhaven city police. A high fence is built around the entire harbor and is controlled by the customs officials. Annual cost of administration.—Cost of administration is unobtain- able, as it is really included in the Hamburg free port administration costs. Operations permitted and prohibited, dispatch in unloading, and reconsignment and transshipment trade.—Operations permitted and prohibited in the free zone at Cuxhaven are theoretically the same as those permitted in the free port at Hamburg, though the Cuxhaven establishment is so small and insignificant that its functions are almost negligible. Regarding the dispatch with which vessels are unloaded, reconsignment trade, and transshipment trade, inquiries from officials and others elicited almost no replies, except that, 88 the free harbor activities were almost nonexistent, no details oF figures could be given, except that transshipments during 1927 totaled 27,322 metric tons. Manufacturing and shipbuilding in free zone.—There is no mani” facturing in the free zone. No shipbuilding or repairing facilities are established in this area, all sich activities being centered at Hamburg. Influence of free port on the development of foreign trade and of the merchant marine—The operation of the free port at Cuxhaven has no effect whatsoever on the development of foreign trade or of the German merchant marine. le

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