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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JAVA. 183 The warehouses face the quay, and at the back are the Government railway lines. Both at the front and at the back are uninclosed sheds, roofed with zinc, to protect the goods which are being removed from the warehouses. These warehouses are built entirely of zinc, with steel framework, and are on high cement foundations. As they are Government buildings, I am unable to ascertain their orig inal cost. They are owned and conducted entirely by the Netherlands Indian Government. The service is complete and satisfactory to the patrons. The ware houses are in charge of European storekeepers, who render every assistance to owners of goods. They are open from 7 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, during which time goods can be removed or stored. Scale of charges per cubic meter (35.314 cubic feet) for storage is as follows for goods in transit or in bond : For hazardous goods, 2J cents per day; for petroleum (the import ers of petroleum have their own petroleum warehouses and seldom make use of the Government stores), 14 cents per day; for gambler, hides, indigo, coffee, sugar, tobacco, and tea, 1^ cents per day; for all other goods, 1cents per day. Days of storing and removing goods both count as full days. As the stores belong to the Government, I am unable to give the receipts and expenditures on account of the service, but I am informed that the receipts are but little more than the expenditures. General merchandise and produce are stored, the latter being stored from coastwise steamers awaiting shipment. As there is only one American import firm here, the Standard Oil Company, and as its goods are stored in its own petroleum stores, it may be said that Americans do not make use of the Government stores at all. There is no distinction made as to nationality, and all receive fair treat ment alike. When goods are landed, the owners may leave them in the Govern ment stores for eight days, after which time duty must be paid and goods removed by owners, or the goods must be placed in bonded stores. When owners of goods can not be found, and the eight days have expired, the unclaimed goods are placed in the bonded stores, and after one year has expired without the goods being claimed they are advertised one month in the Government Gazette and then sold at public auction, the proceeds of the sale going toward paying store rent. Owners of bonded goods may keep their goods in the Govern ment stores for an indefinite period, provided there is sufficient room and the store rent is paid regularly. There is every facility for removing goods from boats to the ware houses, and vice versa. Cooly labor, costing 20 cents per day, is em ployed for loading and unloading steamers, which lie some 50 feet in front of the warehouses, and for loading and unloading the railway trucks which are drawn up at the back of the warehouses. Steam cranes, belonging to the Government (harbor department) are also used for loading and unloading vessels at the quay, at a cost of $14 per day (7 a. m. till 5 p. in.). The Government warehouses are in charge of the customs officials, and in addition to the European storekeeper there are also one or more custom-house officers on duty every day to report the amount of goods taken into or removed from the warehouses. This report

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