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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38 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. in Marseille in a bonded warehouse owned and managed by the Compagnie des Docks et Entrepôts. BUILDINGS AND MANAGEMENT. This company controls certain warehouses, the dry docks, the storage warehouses, and considerable real property not yet utilized. The structures actually devoted to storage, together with their origi nal cost and dimensions, are as follows: Administration building (area, 1,47(> square meters; 1 square meter = 1.18 square yards), $279,853 ; principal warehouse (area, 14.(583 square meters), $2,1(53,407 ; warehouses F and G, $380,224; warehouses IT and Nos. 40 and 44 (area, 49,160 square meters), $1,011,146; warehouse No. 55 (area, 2,800 square meters), $188,717; Cape Punèdi land, $37,529. The administration building, six stories in height, contains, in addition to the offices of the company and the offices of the custom-house admin istrators, a public-sales warehouse. The principal warehouse, 365 meters (1,197.5 feet) in length, is divided into four sections, each one having an interior covered court for trucking operations. The four sections include 76,200 square meters (91,134 square yards) of floor space, capable of accommodating 60,000 tons of miscellaneous mer chandise. The warehouses, seven in number, designated as No. 55, are for the storage of vegetable oils. These warehouses have a capac ity of 20,000 tons of oil in casks, and 1,000 tons in cisterns, of which there are 40. The cisterns are filled through siphons. The warehouses are owned and managed by (he Compagnie des Docks et Entrepôts, a private corporation performing many impor tant public functions, the principal of which is that of warehousing goods in bond. The concession, approved by the State, limits the pow ers of the company as respects charges for services rendered. The organization of the system was authorized by the law of June 10, 1854, the concession being granted by the State to the city of Mar seille, which, in turn, disposed of the privilege to the private corpo ration named. This company completed and began operating its first establishment January 1, 18(54. It pays a bonus of $19,300 annually to the city. The original grant established the relations between the company and the State. All tariffs must be approved by the minister of commerce and proclaimed by the prefecture of the department. SERVICE. The patron, while sometimes inclined to protest against the opera tion of a public utility by a corporation organized for profit, is, on the whole, very well contented with the arrangement. He has at his disposition mod hi warehouses convenient of access from the port, con trolled by a corporation which, upon demand, takes possession of his arriving merchandise, transports it to a place of security, insures him against loss, and returns the goods intrusted to its care upon the pay ment of fixed charges which are not subject to debate or amendment in favor of preferred clients. The company, in addition to the services described above in gen eral terms, concedes the right of the owner to visit his merchandise at will. When merchandise is to be visited the company engages to

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