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

208 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES Owing to the absence of all agricultural and industrial enterprise, there are no warehouses, grain arriving here in lighters carrying up to 2,500 tons for transshipment and being loaded directly on board pcean-going craft. There are no rail and highway connections, communication with the outer world being entirely by water. Local ferryboats ply with the upriver ports in the summer time, while during the winter months, i. e., December to March, when the river is frozen, the mails are brought overland by carts from Tulcea and Galatz. The harbor is seldom closed to navigation by ice, and loading operations continue all the winter, as the grain intended for winter shipments, from 100,000 to 300,000 tons, finds its way down the river in lighters before the ice sets in. Administration.—While the policing of the river is under the juris- diction of the European commission of the Danube, possessing sov- ereign rights, the territorial authority, Rumania, polices the town and controls the customhouse. Vessels entering are subject to customs control and the guard consists of a detachment of 130 frontier guards. The administration of the port costs the Government only the upkeep of the officers above mentioned. The European commission pays for the expenditure incurred on all works carried out on the river, taxes being charged to steamers to cover these latter outlays, which normally amount to £100,000 per annum. Operations permitted in free zone.—Operations in connection with the loading and discharging of steamers and shipping in general are permitted in the free zone, while the manipulation of petroleum and oil residues is carried out in a special zone at the lower end of the port. Operations prohibited in free zome.— There are no operations which are prohibited in the free zone. Dispatch secured in unloading vessels.—The loading of steamers is carried out by floating elevators capable of discharging up to 120 tons per hour, and work can be continued night and day. When these operations are affected by hand labor a discharging rate of 500 tons per day can be relied upon. Dispatch in other Rumanian ports is similar to that obtained in the free port of Sulina. Reconsignment trade, nature, exteni—There is no reconsignment trade, Sulina being but a port of call for ocean-going steamers on their way to the terminals of Galatz and Braila. Transshipment trade, nature, extent.—The transshipment trade is entirely confined to grain, timber, and oil cake brought here from upriver ports in lighters and loaded direct on ocean-going steamers.

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