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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ENGLAND: LIVERPOOL. Ill the buyer, and consequently payment is not insisted upon at the time of transfer. If warrants are issued the charges on all goods (including to bacco) are collected up to the date of the issue of the documents. All charges have to be paid, or provided for, prior to goods being delivered. CHARGES. The rates for storage, etc., of goods at the board’s warehouses are shown in the inclosed copy of the schedule of warehouses, rates, etc. 0 At the Stanley Dock warehouses all operations are performed by the board, including the discharging of cargoes from vessels, the quay porterage thereon and the housing thereof, and the rates chargeable for the several operations are shown in the warehouse schedule mentioned. At the Albert and Wapping Dock warehouses the operations of discharging and quay porterage are usually per formed by master lumpers and master porters, respectively, who are licensed but not employed by the board. The master lumper’s price for discharging a cargo is subject to special arrangement, there being no fixed rates tor such operations ; but the rates chargeable by master porters for the quay porterage operations are fixed by the board, and are shown in the inclosed copy of the master porterage by-laws, etc.® The housing operations at the Albert and Wapping Dock warehouses, as in the case of the Stanley Dock warehouses, are performed by the board, at rates shown in the warehouse schedule mentioned above. Particulars of the receipts and expenditures at the board’s ware houses for the year ending July 1, 1903, are shown in the inclosed copy of the warehouses account. 6 The accounts for the present year have not yet been made up. The dutiable goods usually stored at the board’s warehouses are tobacco and sugar at each of the three warehouses named, and wines and spirits, tea, coffee, and cocoa at the Albert Dock warehouses. The average period during which dutiable goods remain in store at the board’s warehouses may be said to be, approximately, as fol lows: Tobacco, two and one-fourth years; sugar, five months; wines and spirits, sixteen months; tea, five months; coffee and cocoa, twenty-one months. It is impossible to say to what extent Americans make use of the board’s warehouses, but it may be mentioned that nearly all the American tobacco imported into Liverpool is conveyed to and dealt with at these warehouses. All the board’s customers are treated exactly alike, irrespective of nationality. 0 On file in the Bureau of Statistics, where it may be consulted by persons Interested. 6 The detailed statement is on file in the Bureau of Statistics. From it the following summary is taken : For the eleven warehouses specified the total receipts were £211,240 18s. 3d. ($1,028,003.90), of which £116,000 ($564,514) "ere for rates and nearly £95.241 ($463,490) for rents. The expenditure, exclusive of interest on cost of land and buildings and general management charges, was £101,822 ($495,517) for rates account, £14,902 ($72,520) on rent, and £280 ($1,363) miscellaneous expenditures on the structures; the surplus receipts thus amounted to £94,237 ($458,604), from which, deducting £18,895 ($91,952), the amount of local rates for 1903, leaves £75,342 ($366,652) total bet earnings for the year.

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