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

TREE PORT OF GENOA 233 git] od 169 157 186 204 figures published by the same authority in the statistics for the year 1926, in which comparisons are made with the years 1925, 1924, 1923 and 1913. These statistics are given below. It is to be presumed that discrepancies have been caused by the inclusion of Port Baross in some items and by the exclusion of the same port which under the treaty of Rapollo was separated from Fiume and was placed under Yugoslavian administration. The traffic of Fiume m he 11 rm ar 1y 1y Te of ad 30 no :h ne 78 an ve hé 2d ag a .h al m 8 y rf he 18. 1e ne a By rail By sea AAT Arrivals ' Departures! Total Arrivals Departures] Total Tons | 518, 701 335, 748 | 180, 912 121, 752 314, 781 Tons 340, 155 304,417 80, 463 58, 272 825. 877 Tons 858, 857 640, 165 261,375 180, 024 1.940. 857 Tons 378, 650 373, 442 222, 230 128, 671 022 959 Tons 360, 602 306, 548 166, 609 84,162 1.178, 883 Tons 739, 252 679, 990 388, 839 212, 833 2 (006. R42 THE FREE PORT OF GENOA, ITALY [From H. P. Starrett, American consul general, Genoa, Italy] The instruction under reply calls for a report on the free ports of Genoa and Savona. Provisions for a free port at Savona have received legislative authority but thus far the free zone has not been sstablished. This report, therefore, deals only with the port of Genoa. History of the free zone.—The history of the free port of Genoa goes back to very ancient times and the exact date of its establishment is uncertain. A constantly increasing sea trade between Genoa and the old colonies of the eastern Mediterranean resulted in the building of certain warehouses for the storage of goods awaiting transshipment to other ports and thus facilitated the development of a trade which enabled the old Republic of Genoa to compete successfully with its chief rival, the Republic of Venice. In 1595 the Bank of San Giorgio (Saint George), the oldest bank in the world, and, incidentally, the one which had financially assisted King Richard I of England in his crusade to the Holy Land, and paid his ransom when he was captured by the Saracens, built several ware- houses, and the Government of the Republic permitted storage in the free port for grain subject to duty (when imported by vessels above a certain tonnage). In 1623 this privilege was extended to all classes of goods, and it is perhaps fair to say that Genoa as a real free port began its experience in that year. The area of the free zone was extended from time to time, and it is now proposed that sometime during the present year it is to be extended to include most of the ares, of the whole port.

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