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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92 WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. The following, from the report of the chamber of commerce for 1902, shows the present situation : As mentioned in our last report, the town council resolved on September 19, 1900, to build some additional vaults and ground rooms at the communal entrepôt. These were completed in the first half of December. As the winter season is not suitable to the transport of wine, the operation of already contracted leases was postponed until May 1. Some new ground rooms, destined for wine and arrack, were used during the winter tor the stor age of sugar. In December a resolution was passed for the building of a new warehouse, to be let to the wardens of the tea establishment for the storage of tea, with ground rooms destined for spirits. The bearing capacity of the floors of this warehouse is projected at 1,000 kilograms (2,204.6 pounds) per square meter (10.76 square feet). (In the entrepôt dock they have a capacity of 2,000 kilo grams per square meter.) Spaces for the erection of goods sheds were let to the Holland Iron Railway Company and the company for the administration of State railways. A new shed was placed behind the eastern iron shed for the storage of molasses. The town council resolved to build near the entrance to the entrepôt a police station and a dining and waiting room, and also a coffee house, to be operated by the company. So much regarding the extension of the entrepôt buildings. Of sundry improvements introduced in the course of last year we notice the following: To meet complaints about leakage from sugar a first floor was covered with asphalt. The boom closing the access by water was improved by making it slide lengthwise. The necessary mooring buoys and stopping posts were placed. It was resolved to apply a lining of iron cement to the walls of the room let to the Government in order to cut off the smell of the methyl alco hol stored there. Sundry necessary- items were supplied—some boxes for custom-house men, protection for electric wires, repeated digging out of water pipes to repair breaks caused by the sinking of the soil, renewals of pavement, etc. The “ Blaauwhoedenveem ” (a warehousing company) obtained permission for placing an automatic weighing machine to serve in packing tea. The rent received amounted to 103,579 florins ($41,639) and the storage and wages under wardens to 80,856 florins ($32,504). Frank D. Hill, Consul. Amsterdam, Netherlands, July #0,190J h PORTUGAL. LISBON. (From United States Vice and Deputy Consul Klnchant, Liston, Portugal.) The dimensions of the principal warehouse at Lisbon are 75 meters by 26 meters (246 by 85 feet). The original cost can not be given. The warehouses are conducted under a concession from the Govern ment by Messrs. Hersent & Co., whose official address is New Harbor Works, 10 Travessa do Corpo Santo, Lisbon. The services rendered include loading and unloading of steamers or sailing vessels either anchored in river or berthed at quayside; storage of merchandise gen erally; removal of merchandise by rail, along quays, communicating with main lines for distribution to all parts of the country; receiving merchandise for export, and, in short, acting for importers and exporters as required. The rates charged for the various services performed at the harbor

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