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 SULINA 297 The Danube commission, to remedy this obstruction, have been and are making further extensions of the piers seaward, and it is expected that a permanent bar depth of 24 or 25 feet will be obtained, when the present works are completed, in three years’ time. Ten cuttings have also been made in the river between Tulcea and Sulina, which have shortened the distance by about 12 nautical miles and removed 27 bends dangerous to navigation, and while, in 1856, the size of vessels navigating the Danube were sailing brigs and barks of 150 to 300 tons, to-day steamers of a tonnage of even 9,000 tons can proceed up the river as far as Braila with comparative ease. The commission has, therefore, fully carried out the mandate given it to guarantee the freedom of navigation. It terminated piracy, which was practiced at the mouths of the river when it origi- nally took office. Description.—Sulina is a small seaport town at the Sulina mouth of the Danube, being situated on the edge of a swampy flat, of about 1,000 square miles in extent, forming the delta of the Danube. The port comprises the Sulina branch for a distance of 3 nautical miles upstream, commencing from the point zero on the milestone scale and that part of the Sulina branch forming the outer port between the said point and the pierheads at the mouth. The Sulina road- stead comprises the waters of the sea with a radius of 2 nautical miles round the head of the north pier. Sulina hes no industrial or commercial importance apart from shipping, upon which its entire existence depends, being the port of transshipment for the large bulk of grain finding its way down the Danube. Quays have been built on both sides of the river the whole length of the port, which provide berthing spaces for about 40 steamers, the depth of water alongside being 24 feet. The population is about 2,500 souls, to which must be added one or two thousand men of various nationalities, who form a floating population and who come and go according to the demand for hand labor in grain-loading operations. It is a free port, this privilege having been granted by the Sultan of Turkey on account of its peculiar position as regards the Danube commission, and not abolished by Rumania when the latter was accorded a seat on the Danube commission after the war of 1877. The free zone extends for a distance of 3 miles round Sulina; sea-borne goods entering the port not being subject to customs duties except in the case of the Government monopolies, which are tobacco, spirits, beer, salt, gunpowder, matches, and playing cards. Goods arriving by the overland route are subject to the full duties imposable at other Rumanian ports.

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