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 TRIESTE 253 from rates and taxes. The Magazzini Generali instituted the ware- house receipts-loan service, reduced tariffs, and granted preferential custom duties on goods imported by sea and destined to the hinter- land, procured competitive railroad freight rates to northern ports, and accorded free warehousing to some of the export goods allowing various minor facilities. The effects on the Trieste traffic were felt immediately, and the whole port became congested. A new free zone was erected in the southeastern limits of the city and huge construction works were carried out until the whole plant grew to its present size, under the single control of the Magazzini Generali, covering to-day an area of 350,000 square meters of floor space. Description.—The free zones are located on either side of the town, extending along the northwestern and southeastern limits of the town along the water front. Both zones have a railroad terminal linked by a rail line {or the interchanging of transit cargo. The area of the free zone covers 954,000 square meters and on completion of the Mole VI now under construction will be increased to 1,155,330 square meters. It has also over 9,000 meters of mooring space along wharves and jetties, which are provided with sheds where goods are placed temporarily before delivery or reshipment. In the free zones are situated the warehouses proper, which are several-storied buildings, partly owned by the Magazzini Generali, or Bonded Warehouses, and partly by private concerns. The Mag- azzini Generali, dispose of 92,953 square meters of sites on wharves and jetties and 256,483 square meters in the depots, which have cel- lars, ground floor, and two to five stories. The total covered area of the Magazzini Generali is 350,000 square meters, with a capacity of 501,000 tons, and is composed of 161 buildings, 27 wharves, and 44 depots, as well as numerous buildings for the customs and offices. For the requirements of loading and unloading, a system of railway lines of a length of 10,976 meters permits operations on the wharves and jetties and alongside the warehouses with an additional 48,800 meters for shunting operations. Railway terminals connect the free zone via Mestre-Venice with Italy and southern Germany through the Brenner Pass, via Milan and Domodossola with France, via Postumia with Yugoslavia, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, via San Pietro del Carso with Hungary, Rumania, and the Balkans. The port of Trieste is divided. into four areas: 1. The free zone Porto Vittorio Emanuele III, northwest of the town or the old port. 2. The free zone Porto E. F. Duca d’Aosta, southeast of the town or the new port,

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