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through a salaried director, to enforce the observance of all the regu- 
lations and to insure the proper working of the zone; to supervise the 
work and conduct of the employees; and to punish offenders against 
the regulations. Their decisions may be appealed to the chamber of 
commerce. 
The actual work of moving the goods within the zone is done 
exclusively by the Compagnia dei Caravana, a company of custom- 
house laborers founded in: 1340. 
There are 21 guards in all, as well as a fire watch kept by the 
vorters of the Compagnia dei Caravana. 
Privately owned storerooms.—In the oldest warehouses in the zone 
there are 368 storage rooms, which were sold to private firms in 1797 
and which are entirely operated by them under the control of the 
board and in accordance with the laws and regulations. The rest of 
the area, plant, and equipment are owned by the chamber of commerce. 
Operations in the zone.—The traffic in the zone is largely made up 
of the storage or treatment of coffee, sugar, oils, hides, cocoa, pepper, 
drugs, ete. Due to the development of the beet-sugar industry in 
ltaly, the importations of that product have decreased materially, 
but in other items there has been a steady increase. 
The operations consist of the grading and preparation of such 
products as coffee, cocoa, etc., bottling and canning food products of 
various kinds, and the refining of edible oils. 
{n 1901 an independent section of the zone was established for the 
nandling of grain. This business is under the management of the 
Societd Anonima Silos and under the control of the customs authori- 
Hes, 
_ In 1907 another independent section of the zone was established, 
an area of 2,000 square meters, at the Paleocapa Wharf, for the 
purpose of storing lubricating and other oils. It is operated by a 
*ompany called the “Unione Importatori Lubrificanti.” The equip- 
ment includes a 2-story warehouse with an area of 1,400 square 
meters on each floor, and the tank yards cover an area of 1,100 square 
meters. The total capacity of the tanks is 8,000 cubic meters. 
There are 4 steam and 2 electric pumps, an air compressor, and a 
Juadruple piping system with a total capacity of 120 tons per hour. 
Dispatch in operations.—Dispatch in unloading vessels is always 
lightly longer than when unloading for customs docks, due to the 
formalities which have to be gone through, but this delay has not 
seen found to be serious or to interfere with the business of the zone. 
Reconsignment trade—There is very little reconsignment trade, 
ind what there is consists largely of edible oils imported for refining 
ind blending purposes and later reexported to the colonies and to 
loreign countries. A few products from the colonies, such as hides 
ind skins, are also reexported to foreign countries. However, there