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

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (206 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Europe

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ENGLAND: BRISTOL. 105 sacks in the hold of vessel, weighing and loading into railway trucks or wagons. The warehouse rate includes metering, filling sacks in the hold of vessel, weighing, housing, and redelivery to railway trucks or to craft alongside. The rates per 100 bushels for wheat and linseed worked throughout in original bags are: Ship to craft, 62 cents; ship to truck, 73 cents; warehouse rate, $1.16; rent per week, 8 cents. When extra men have to be employed or extra expenses in curred in consequence of the high temperature of cargo or other causes, an extra charge will be made. For grain out of condition, which requires a lower storage than 4 feet 6 inches, 2 cents per 100 bushels per week extra will be charged for each foot less in height. The above rates apply only to labor operations during the ordinary Working hours. Overtime will be charged according to expense incurred. All nationalities are treated exactly alike by the administrators of the warehouses, both free and bonded. Local warehouses are not nsed by Americans, simply because there are no local importers of our nationality, but the bulk of the grain and provisions stored is doubtless of American and Canadian origin. The facilities for the removal of free goods to warehouse are com plete and up to date in Bristol. The grain warehouses are supplied with every modem appliance for handling grain, either in bulk or sacked. The contiguity of the transit sheds—which are really ware houses for storing for a limited time—and of the larger warehouses to the quay side, and the complete equipment of modern traveling cranes, insure the maximum dispatch and the minimum cost for shifting cargo from ship to warehouse. BONDED WAREHOUSES. There exists in Bristol immense accommodation for bonded goods, the result of the great tobacco manufacturing industry and of the supremacy of Bristol for centuries as an importer of wines from the Continent. Storage places for bonded goods are not owned by the municipality, nor are they in such close proximity to the docks as are the free warehouses. The limited number of dutiable articles in the English tariff renders it unnecessary to provide extended bonded accommodation close to the ship. The accommodations provided for the two classes of bonded goods are quite distinct. In olden times it seems to have been easy for any body to secure authority to bond a wine cellar, hence certain parts of the foundations of the older portion of the city are honeycombed with cellars, many of which are bonded. These cellars are to be found in the most unlikely places—under old and decaying houses and amid surroundings which indicate a once prosperous neighborhood fallen upon evil times. However dilapidated the house may be, fhe cellar must be kept in good condition to retain its bond, and is subject to the same regulations, the same careful custom-house oversight, as if it were a new structure. I have examined into the conditions under which these cellars for the storing of alcoholic liquors are maintained and controlled. I find nothing, however, to learn from their management, except in one respect, and I am not certain that this point will be new to the administrators of our

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