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 ALMERIA 207 > 3 T 1 ) N 08 3, wb 4 = d Ad id 3. 21 Dispatch in unloading vessels.—There is no information indicating that there has been greater dispatch in unloading vessels at the free Port of Almeria than in the customs zone. No mechanical equipment has been installed, and with the exception of the delivery of oil to the oil tanks in the free zone, which are the only oil tanks at Almeria, the system of handling cargo destined for the free port has been the same as followed in the customs zone. Beconsignment and transshipment trade.—The commercial impor- tance of the free port of Almeria up to the present time has been confined to the trade in petroleum products. It was particularly hoped that, because of its situation in the Mediterranean, an impor- tant transshipment trade in products destined for, and shipped from, Ports of northern Africa would develop, but these hopes have not yet been realized. As shown by statistics that follow covering the free-port movement in the calendar year 1927, only 33 metric tons merchandise, exclusive of petroleum products, entered the free port during the 12 months, and only 172 metric tons left it. The @erchandise on hand at the free port on January 1, 1927, exclusive of petroleum products, totaled 394 metric tons, and on January 1, 1928, 255 metric tons. Oil deposit in free zone.—The Compafia de Depositos Comerciales lel Puerto de Almeria built within the free zone a steel tank of 10,000 cubic meters capacity. for fuel oil, and two small tanks for Diesel oil, each with a capacity of 300 cubic meters. A tank ship *apable of carrying 3,500 metric tons of oil was acquired for delivery Purposes. An agreement was made with an American oil company for securing oil supplies on consignment, and the business of furnish- ing fuel and Diesel oil to vessels and to other consumers was com- Menced. Total imports of mineral oils in 1924 were 8,086 metric tons, according to customs statistics; in 1925, 13,033 metric tons; ind in 1926, 7,651 metric tons. In the latter year the agreement with the American company was canceled, and 2,704 metric tons of the Tineral oils imported in 1926 were from Russia. During the first dart of 1927 the oil deposit was without supplies, but later in the Year fuel oil was imported from Rumania. On January 1, 1928, the oil station at Almeria, along with every other mineral-oil establish- Ment in Spain, was taken over by the operating company of the Spanish Petroleum Monopoly, which has operated it since that time, “applies during the present year having been received from Russia. Coaling station contemplated. —A section of the free zone is reserved for coal storage, but up to the present time the concessionaire has Made no arrangements for handling coal, although the matter has %en discussed with coal concerns. Steamers now coal at Gibraltar r Oran, and it is reported that a coaling station at Almeria would aye difficulty in competing with the stations at the ports mentioned.

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