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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FRANCE: NANTES. 41 cotton, 385; wool, 2G4; rice, 482; hides, 479; vegetable oil, 8G0; oil cake, 1,512. As there are no American business houses in Marseille, it may be said that Americans make no use whatever of these warehouses, although owing to the great volume of American commerce they are nevertheless of considerable importance to American trade interests. -No distinctions whatever are made by the company in the treatment of clients. The fact that the bills for storage are made out every two weeks, and for periods of one-half month, probably results from the. experi ence of the company that the average length of time during which goods remain in bond is two weeks. LANDING FACILITIES. ^ The company controls permanent docks and piers, built of stone. Ships anchor alongside and goods are discharged promptly and sat isfactorily, largely by hand labor. There are also numerous cranes and American unloading devices in case of full cargoes of grain and oil seeds. A public street separates the bonded warehouses from the docks, and goods are transported across the intervening space upon trucks and drays. The cost of these services may be estimated from the table of charges to be found in the printed tariff. It is the experience of individual business firms that the company removes goods from ship to warehouse for less than the cost to an ordinary individual for performing the same services. CUSTOMS SUPERVISION. The custom-house officers are in close touch with every transaction °f the Compagnie des Docks. The inspectors and appraisers have their offices in the dock company’s administration building, and their guards are posted at every point of ingress and egress. When goods are put into storage, a custom-house guard and an employee of the company together close the storage chamber, and this chamber ls never opened and the goods are never removed except in the Presence and by the authority of the guard. A vast project in embryo is receiving favorable consideration in Marseille, the object of which is to create a free zone, thus extending the bonded warehouse idea. It is proposed to make this free zone neutral territory, sufficiently large to permit of the erection of man- n 1 act uring establishments where imported merchandise may be re ceived, manufactured, or changed in form, and reexported without being subject to any formality or costs of any description. Robert P. Skinner, (Consul-General. Marseille, France, June 27, 7004. NANTES. (From United States Consul Ridgely, Nantes, France.) The area of the warehouses at Nantes is 4G,000 square meters (55,015 square yards). The original cost was about $675,000. The warehouses are owned by the chamber of commerce and con-

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