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

a st 8 "8 le 11 I) 0 Pp sb f n= 2s 2) re A 8 rd ab No ad al th ys sd a 6 ne te d 16 in” ig FREE PORT OF EMDEN 173 depth of 10.5 meters (34 feet 5 inches), its length amounts to 2,040 Meters (2,244 yards), and the greatest width to 460 meters (506 yards). The only quay accommodations existing in this section of the Yarbor amount to 280 meters (308 yards) and are situated to the right of the Seeschleuse (locks). This quay has 13 loading bridges of a capacity from 6.5 to 15 tons per grab (4 of 6.5 tons each, 4 of 12.5 tons each, and 5 of 15 tons each). The loading bridges have an aver- age output of 130 tons per bridge per hour. These loading bridges are mainly intended for the transshipment of coal, iron, steel, and ore, of which scrap iron, steel, and ore are usually shipped in barges through the Dortmund-Ems Canal to the Westphalian district, whereas the coal usually arrives in barges and is transferred to steamers as cargo or as bunker coal, though, of course, British coal also arrives here and is either used for local consumption or as bunker coal. In this harbor large space is still available for subsequent enlargement of the harbor territory, as well as for industrial undertakings. There are also 10 floating cranes here of a lifting capacity of 3 tons each and two floating 2rain elevators of a capacity of 2,000 tons each per hour. The Emden Aussenhafen constructed in the years from 1899 to (901, has a water area of 18 hectares (422 acres), a depth of 11.5 meters (37 feet 8 inches), a length of 1,280 meters (1,409 yards), and a width of 130 meters (143 yards). In this basin 14 large steamers can be accommodated. It has a quay 930 meters in length (422 yards), which is equipped with nine traveling cranes of 3 tons lifting capacity each and one traveling grain elevator. It is also equipped at the outer end with three traveling bridges of 5 tons lifting capacity each and a capacity of 75 to 90 tons per hour, a slewing crane of 40 tons lifting capacity, and a coal dipper of 32 tons with a capacity of 90 tons per hour. It has adequate connection with the railroad. The two sheds erected here have an area of 12,000 square meters (129,600 square feet). All the above-mentioned equipment and accommodations are on the left side of the harbor, whereas the right side is undeveloped. Much space is still available here for the construction of sheds and warehouse accommodations in case the future development of the Emden Harbor should require More space. Two locks connect the Aussenhafen, which is alongside the open iver, with the other basins. "The oldest of these locks is 110 meters (360 feet 8 inches) in length, 14.5 meters (47 feet 5 inches) wide and 6.7 meters (21 feet 9 inches) deep, whereas the Neue Seeschleuse has 8 length of 260 meters (853 feet), a width of 40 meters (131 feet 2 Inches) and a depth of 13 meters (42 feet 6 inches). All locks are Worked by electricity. All vessels, when their dimensions permit, have to use the older lock.

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