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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NETHERLANDS: AMSTERDAM. 91 At present the company own several warehouses of the most modern type and provided with all facilities for the necessary dealing with coffee, gum, tobacco, honey, and indigo. The famous Banda nutmegs are warehoused and manipu lated by Blaauwhoedenveem at Amsterdam, this city being still the world’s emporium for these spices. It is of course needless to add that the company’s capital has gradually been increased and that its warehouses are at present pro vided with all modern machinery and railway accommodation. Furthermore, the depth of water alongside the quays is such as to permit ocean steamers of any kind to moor directly in front of the warehouses. COMMUNAL WAREHOUSES. ^ Four kinds of dock magazines are distinguished in the Netherlands: Free public entrepôts owned by the State or the municipality, pri vate free entrepôts, fictive entrepôts, and particular entrepôts. They do not differ much, however, as to the regulations. The first two are under continuous observation by the custom-house authorities. Both dutiable and free merchandise may be stored in them, but articles like sugar, wines, spirits, etc., which are subject to duties on a higher scale, can only be received in the second class. In the third and fourth classes the control by the customs officials is occasional ; the stores of the third class, including the municipal petroleum stores and tobacco warehouses, are generally confined to one article. Store houses of the fourth class accept all kinds of goods against negotia ble documents. The respective companies, which are known as u veems,” charge themselves with storage and transport. These magazines are all buildings of five or six stories. On the Water side room is left in front for a crane path and for a platform 2.50 meters (8.2 feet) in width at the level of the first floor. Two tracks are not, as a rule, required in front at Amsterdam, because much of the merchandise arrives and leaves by boat, while at the back at least three tracks and a roadway 8 meters (26.2 feet) in width are necessary. There are four tracks at some warehouses. In the new communal warehouses the iron skeleton of the building in embedded m about an inch of cement, and the long warehouses are divided by fireproof walls in bulkhead fashion, without any doors, in order to reduce the dangers from fire. The lifts and stairways are outside the fcal house walls and connect the balconies. The width of the build ings is 30 meters (98.4 feet). Larger buildings would be too dark, filie warehouses are, like the sheds, illuminated by electric incandes cent lamps. Each floor of the building can support a load of 2 tons per square meter (lOf square feet). At the back of these warehouses are, first, the tracks and roadway we have spoken of, then a public street jind cattle market and slaughterhouses. These latter buildings have their fronts on the quay of the new canal (Nieuwe Vaart). The new communal entrepôt was opened on January 1. 1900, and the old entrepôt closed for general commercial purposes on December of the same year. The transfer of the merchandise from the old the new entrepôt having for the most part been made when opera tions were begun in the new, on November 1, 1900, an area of 30,000 square meters (35,880 square yards) was let, while about 23,000 meters (27,500 square yards) remained under the administration of the hardens.

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