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:: North America

Collection:: Economics Books

160 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. $4,000 to $5,000. The warehouses are all owned and conducted by the merchants and importers. Patrons are allowed to place their goods in bond with a view to transhipment, or for other reasons that would necessitate bonding goods. Owners of the warehouses furnish labor and receive and de liver goods. The scale of charges for storage is based on the size of the packages, say 6 cents per month for an average barrel. It is im possible to obtain any idea of the receipts and expenditures on account of services. Goods of all descriptions are stored in bond for transhipment to other ports. The warehouses are used to a very small extent by Americans, as very few are engaged in business here, although large shipments of American goods are received here. All nationalities are treated alike by the administrators of the warehouses. Goods can be kept in bond for transhipment for one year. Facili ties for removing goods from the warehouse to boat and vice versa are good, labor being cheap. The cost per average barrel is about 3 cents. All goods are transported by lighter between vessel and ware house. The warehouses are supervised by custom-house officers, who are in attendance from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., and give every facility for the landing and reshipping of goodsi The keys of the warehouses are delivered to the owners at 10 a. m. by the customs authorities and are returned at 4 p. m. David F. Wilber, Consul. Barbados, West Indies, July 23,190If. BERMUDA. (From United States Consul Oreene, Hamilton, Bermuda.) The dimensions of the twenty-six buildings used here for bonded and other storage warehouse purposes are from about 50 to over 100 feet long and 18 to 47 feet wide. These buildings are of one, and a few of two, stories in height; they are of stone with slate roofs, to minimize the danger from fire, as are all buildings in Bermuda. They cost from £1,000 to £1,500 ($4,866.50 to $7,299.75) each, accord ing to size. They are owned by business men of the colony. The service seems to be satisfactory, as no complaints have been made. Charges are 3 pence (6 cents) for 5 cubic feet per month. Spirits and malt liquors are the principal goods stored. The Ameri cans use the buildings to a large extent for whisky storage, many thousands of barrels of American whisky being stored at one time. Goods remain in storage from six months to a year, but some lots have been in storage for two years. All nationalities are treated alike. Goods are carried to and from the warehouses by trucks or by horses and drays. The charges for warehousing and removal are about the same as the monthly storage charge when the goods are moved by truck ; when they are drawn by drays with horses the charge is about 2 shillings (48 cents) per load of 10 barrels, commonly known as flour barrels. These warehouses are under the super vision of the officers of the customs, a revenue lock being placed on

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