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

194 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES Shipbuilding and ship repair in free zone.—Shipbuilding is Ham- burg’s leading industry, and there are 90 works covering over 500 acres and employing about 20,000 men at this port. Of these, 59 yards covering 405 acres are situated in the free port. The number of working men varies according to the amount of shipbuilding going on. As there has been a strike among shipyard laborers since October 1, 1928, no definite number can be given now, though the local press ~laims that 20,000 laborers are out of employment as a result. Prob- ably 10,000 to 12,000 would be the normal number employed in ship- yards in the free harbor. The largest yards are those of Blohm & Voss, the Deutsche Werft, and the Vulcan Werft. The products of these yards are world renowned, Blohm & Voss having constructed the Vaterland, now the Leviathan, and the Bismarck, now the Majestic, and the Vulcan Werft constructing the Imperator, now the Berengeria- In August, 1928, Blohm & Voss launched the Europa, a 46,000-ton vessel which, with its sister ship, the Bremen, will be among the fastest in trans-Atlantic service. Adequate facilities exist for the repair of ships, and there are ample floating ‘docks to meet the normally large requirements, as will be seen by the following list of floating docks at Hamburg: i ca Blohm & Voss: N On daemons enna De emcee mmm ne A ) or .. BO: Ts my ip ini pg ws escaimeg (Vulkan Works): No. va. ol No Deutse! No. Wertt: TTT mre mney 1. = No. No. wo. xo. No. Jo. ARE Length In meters 99.05 06.65 84,40 70.38 182, 57 | 167. 63 ET O07 32.30 55. 50 75.30 -84 50 00. 62 54.83 50.00 | 42.00 125, 00 5.90 33.40 33. 20 86.77 139. 20 149, 70 Breadth between side walls, meters Draft, | LAfting meters capacity, 10. 80 (8.45 7.10 2.82 36. 57 36.57 | 23. 00 49 | 5.49 7.62 8.53 0,14 9.14 4. 40 3,000 4, 700 17,500 17,000 38, 000 46, 000 ig 000 0.30 4.30 32. 00 5 00 5.34 7.7 11.12 ] EO 6,000 9, 500 25, 000 17. 500 9. 40 22. 50 24. 00 8. 00 4. 00 8.00 6. 80 B. 46 6.00 6. 00 5,000 11, 500 8, 500 7,200 4 800 7.10 4.88 3,500 7.10 5.88 2,100 8. 29 6.10 5,700 0. 11 6.70 3,800 {7.10 4.88 5,600 8. 30 6 10 9. 500 Influence of free port on the development of foreign trade.— Although Hamburg thus is blessed by its location at the terminus of the Elbe one of the world’s most important highways of commerce, and just off the Kiel Canal, connecting the North and Baltic Seas, where trade routes from all quarters of the globe converge, the part played bY Hambure’s free harbor in properly handling and encouraging its enor”

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