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

284 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES Manufacturing in the Greek free zone.—The statutes of the Greek free zone provide for the operation of industrial enterprises within the zone. However, as the area occupied by the free zone at the present time is not of sufficient dimensions to permit the installation of factories, no manufacturing is allowed. The question of permitting manufacturing in the Greek free zone will be examined by the administration in the near future in con- junction with its plans for the extension of the zone. Proposed tobacco manipulation.—The plans also include the con- struction of warehouses for the purpose of manipulating and handling of tobacco as it is anticipated that an important trade in tobaccos from near-by countries will be concentrated at Saloniki. The free- zone administration is of the opinion that besides the technical facilities available at the port of Saloniki for manipulating tobacco, it presents, on account of its geographical position, all the advantages for a transit trade in this commodity. DISPATCH SECURED IN UNLOADING VESSELS ’ The dispatch secured in unloading vessels in the Greek free zone at Saloniki is relatively fast when the present limited accommodation and methods employed at this port are taken into consideration. For lack of space no vessels carrying foreign cargo are allowed to moor alongside the only quay available at the present time. Vessels are moored in the free zone with stern to quay and are unloaded into lighters, the ship’s tackle being employed for all operations. Fifteen vessels can be unloaded simultaneously. Lighters and labor are available in abundance and no unnecessary delay need be occasioned through a lack of these factors. However, the port lacks modern dock devices for handling merchandise. The entire crane equipment of the port of Saloniki (Greek free zone) consists of one 15-ton crane; two 5-ton cranes; and five 2-ton cranes operated by steam. Shipbuilding and ship repairs—There are no shipbuilding or ship- repairing facilities in the Greek free zone. The limited area available does not permit of such operations. TRAFFIC OF THE GREEK FREE ZONE Under the regulations of the Greek free zone all vessels arriving in the port of Saloniki are required to deposit their manifest with the Greek free zone and to land their cargoes in this zone, irrespective of the ultimate destination of the merchandise. Under this regulation all the merchandise imported into Saloniki the bulk of which is des- tined for consumption in Saloniki and other parts of Greece is entered in the Greek free zone.

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