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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MADAGASCAR’. TAM AT A VE. 191 or volume, based on a stated classification. The general rule is that goods which weigh more than 500 kilos to the cubic meter (850 pounds to the cubic yard) are privileged to pay by weight. If a cubic yard does not reach that weight the charges are made by volume, as is the case in tonnage measurement for freight. Fractions of 100 kilos (220.46 pounds) or 100 cubic decimeters (3.53 cubic feet) are charged as 100 kilos or 100 cubic decimeters, except in the case of indivisible masses weighing more than 2 tons or measuring more than 2 cubic meters (70.6 cubic feet), for which special arrangements can be made. Storage and insurance charges are made by months of thirty days or fraction thereof, dating from (he entry of the first installment of the goods. All expenses must be paid when the packages are with drawn, and the company has the right to demand security. The company publishes in the tariff, forwarded under separate cover.“ a complete list in four categories of most of the articles likely to be stored, denoting in each category what is charged by weight and what by volume; but the general rule appears to be a sufficient guide. Thus in the first category marble statuary is charged by weight and wood by volume; in the second category ironmongery by weight and feathers by volume, and so on. Hence it is hardly necssary to enu merate here some three hundred articles. The scale of charges, as well as the facilities for and cost of the re moval of goods from boat to warehouse, will be sufficiently clear from the following analysis of the company’s conditions: For taking charge of goods at the landing place, loading them on the trucks, and conveying them by the company’s Decauville railway, and unloading them at the doors of the warehouse, and vice versa, 20 cents per ton or cubic meter (35.3 cubic feet), the minimum charge being 10 cents. For heavy packages of from 1 to 2 tons, 40 cents per ton. For taking delivery of the goods at the door of the warehouse, classifying and storing them without weighing, 30 cents per ton, and if packages of 1 to 2 tons, 60 cents, the minimum charge being 20 cents. For unstoring goods and delivering them at the doors of the ware house, 30 cents per ton, the minimum charge being 20 cents; for heavy packages of 1 to 2 tons, 60 cents. For unstoring and conveying goods from one place to another in order to classify and store them, 50 cents per ton, the minimum charge being 3Ò cents; and for heavy packages of 1 to 2 tons, $1 per ton. For storekeepers’ charges and supervision, not including insur ance against fire, from 60 cents to $1.20 per ton or cubic meter, ac cording to the class of goods, the minimum charge in any case being 30 cents. There is a special tariff for merchandise of a bulky and cumbrous character, such as pig iron and coal, which pay 20 cents per ton weight, and others, such as lime and cement, 50 cents; coke goes by ton measurement at 40 cents. Another special tariff deals with dangerous and combustible sub stances, such as petroleum, turpentine, etc., the warehouses for a On file in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.

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