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FREE PORT OF FIUME 
THE FREE PORT OF FIUME, ITALY 
"From Vice Consul Howard A. Bowman, Trieste, Italy] 
227 
Brief history.—Fiume has been an active commercial center since 
the remotest time and for centuries shared with Trieste the traffic 
with the Provinces of the old Austrian Empire. The opening up of a 
road across the Liburnian Corso in 1771 connected Fiume direct 
with the middle and lower basins of the Danube River through which 
passes the export traffic of Hungary. The port was officially declared 
a free port in 1719 and an artificial port was built in 1841 by means 
of a breakwater running parallel to the shore. 
In 1871 to 1883 work was continued, but it was soon found neces- 
sary to add new piers and quays, and in 1913, owing to the continued 
crease of the traffic, further measures for the enlargement of the 
port were under consideration. These plans were of necessity sus- 
pended by the outbreak of the World War. 
The port is sufficiently well equipped for its present requirements, 
but the erection of a lumber wharf is considered advisable. 
Location.—The port of Fiume is situated in the Gulf of Quarnaro 
at 45° 19” latitude N. and 14° 17" longitude E. of Greenwich. 
The Gulf of Quarnaro has an extension of about 150 square sea 
miles and a depth of 30 to 50 meters near Fiume. The port of Fiume 
s divided into six docks. 
Dimensions.—The principal basins have the following areas: 
Bquare meters 
cmem--- 102, 300 
een. 104, 800 
100, 400 
154, 600 
19. 000 
All piers, or moles, start from the shore end and are perpendicular 
bo the quays in a north and south direction. They have the fol- 
lowing areas: 
Molo Palermo. 
Molo Napoli.. 
Molo Genova_._... 
Molo Ancona__.. _. 
Molo Adamich._ =... 
Molo San Marco_______. 
Molo Stocco... ______._.. 
Breakwater Amm. Cagni__ - 
Development of Quays.—The wharves have a length of about 6,000 
Meters, of which 3,000 meters are provided with rails. Fifty steamers 
“an be moored alongside in addition to numerous small trading ves- 
els, Measurements are given below: 
Square meters 
een 7,680 
9, 600 
15, 200 
12, 300 
4, 000 
1, 540 
675 
21, 048