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 SALONIKI 281 lying to the westward of the port. It is contiguous to the business section of the city of Saloniki. The Yugoslav zone is surrounded on all sides bv the Greek free zone. DIMENSIONS AND AREA OF THE GREEK FREE ZONE The present area of the Greek free zone is 172,000 square meters (1,849,000 square feet). This area is regarded as totally inadequate for the growing commerce of the port of Saloniki and an extensive anlargement of the free zone is contemplated for the immediate future. The plans include an extension of the Greek free zone westward from the present area. It can not be said what the exact area of the new extension will be until the final plans of the projected works can be drawn up. These plans, which the free zone administration hopes to have completed during the current year, will include the progressive construction of three new basins, and two new break- waters. The first part of these works, the construction of which is considered to be immediately necessary, include a quay of 300 to 350 meters (984 to 1,184 feet) in length, and a breakwater of 300 meters {984 feet) in length and 150 meters (492 feet) in width. Along this quay and on the breakwater two series of warehouses with a floor space of 15,000 square meters (161,250 square feet) and all modern »argo handling appliances, will be erected. The cost of the first part of the proposed works will be approxi- mately 300,000,000 drachmas ($4,000,000), which will be obtained through the medium of a loan. Service for this loan will be provided for by a port fund. The proceeds for this fund will be obtained from a port dues of 2 to 10 per cent of the customs duties on merchandise imported into Saloniki. Legislation providing for the creation of such a fund is already in effect. Terminals and berthing space—The berthing space in the Greek free zone is limited. The length of the only quay available to the free zone at the present time is 390 meters (1,279 feet). One other quay, which lies at right angles at the eastern end of this quay, is ased for vessels engaged in the coastwise trade; the other quay, which ies at right angles at the western end of the main quay, is in the Yugoslav free zone. On account of the shortage of quays vessels are not permitted to moor alongside. They are usually moored with stern to quay, and all loading and discharging operations are effected by means of lighters. The mooring space in the free zone inside of the breakwater will permit from 12 to 15 vessels to be loaded or discharged at the same time. The inconveniences occasioned by the present limited space will disappear with the completion of the improvements mentioned above

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