Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

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Identifikator:: 863514456

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-45340

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Warehouses in foreign countries for storage of merchandise in transit or in bond

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1905

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Collection:: Economics Books

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104 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. useful hints may be gleaned from the experience of a municipality which is in sole control of a water front involving a capital expendi ture of millions, and an annual turnover of large sums. WAREHOUSES FOR FREE GOODS. The city has its own transit sheds and its warehouses for the storage of free goods. I send inclosed a list 0 of these sheds and warehouses with their area and cost of construction in perhaps unnecessary detail; but it is intended to show that the city has found it desirable to split up this warehouse accommodation. It has carried out the principle that its storage buildings should be so placed as to receive goods direct from ship. The saving of one handling thus effected has been the principal reason no doubt that warehouses in private ownership for nondurable goods have been to a large extent superseded. Grain and general merchandise are stored in these warehouses. At them the city is, in fact, prepared to handle almost any sort of a cargo from the moment that the ship breaks bulk up to the time of its final disappearance from the docks. Charges on unbonded general goods vary widely. 6 The quay rate, which comprises charges for landing from ship’s rail, sorting on quay when required, and delivering to railway trucks, including landing accounts, varies from 44 cents to $1.33 per ton, delivery to craft along side costing 6 cents per ton extra. The warehouse rate comprises landing from ship’s rail, sorting when required, housing, unpiling, and delivery to trucks, including landing accounts, and varies from 61 cents to $1.39 per ton, delivery from warehouse to craft alongside, 12 cents per ton extra. For the storage of goods in the warehouses the rent per week varies from 3 to 12 cents per ton. Weighing on deliv ery, when required, 14 cents per ton. These charges must be paid by the person giving the order for the work or clearing the goods. The charges and rent on barley, oats, durra, and millet in bulk per 100 bushels are: From ship to craft, 70 cents; from ship to truck, 80 cents; warehouse rate, $1.50; rent per week, G cents ; on wheat, maize, beans, peas, and rye the charges are: From ship to craft, 74 cents; from ship to truck, 84 cents; warehouse rate, $1.64; rent per week, 8 cents; the charge for turning in warehouse is 14 cents per 100 bushels; for screening, 68 cents per 100 bushels ; for weighing over, 54 cents per 100 bushels; for cutting and starting bags (merchant’s proportion of work) in ship’s hold (including bundling and delivering), 24 cents per 100 bushels. The ship to craft rate includes metering, filling sacks in the hold of vessel, weighing, and delivery to rail of craft alongside ves sel discharging. The ship to truck rate includes metering, filling «This list is on file in the Bureau of Statistics. It shows 4G different sheds with an area of 104.133 square yards, erected at an approximate cost of $1,125,000, which cost includes that of 30,994 square yards of covered way, not included in the area of the sheds. Some of these sheds are built three stories high, and many have two floors. There are, besides, one six-story warehouse of 0,414 square yards area and costing $65,000, and three granaries with an aggre gate area of over 51,000 square yards and costing over $800,000. & Table of charges on general goods is on file in Bureau of Statistics, Depart ment of Commerce and Labor.

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