FREE PORT OF COPENHAGEN 85 
vessels in the domestic trade, the bay southward being too shallow 
for large seagoing craft. Vessels which visit the free port and there- 
after proceed to Baltic ports or the Kiel Canal round the small island 
of Amager and follow the Drogden Channel which parallels the east 
coast of that island until the deeper waters of the Baltic are reached. 
The total land area of the free port is 128 acres, and the water area 
82.5 acres. 
There are five basins with piers running their full length appropri- 
ately equipped with cranes for loading and discharging vessels and 
skirted by railroad tracks. A sixth basin, representing the northern- 
most extension of the free port, was constructed just after the war to 
take care of the increased traffic which it was believed would flow to 
Copenhagen after the settling of Europe to a peace basis, but the ex- 
Pectations which gave rise to its creation were not realized, and this 
basin remains unequipped and not even inclosed in the free port. 
The total length of the piers in use is 5,220 yards. The docks are 
paralleled by railroad tracks and goods may be transferred to cars 
either direct from the holds of vessels, or from the warehouses which 
lie adjacent. 
The depths of the different basins and the length of the piers 
adjacent are as follows: 
Name 
East Basin... 
West Basin ___ IIIT 
Middle Basin __T1TTTTTTTTTT 
Depth 
Feet 
30 
26 
26 
Length 
of piers 
Yards 
1,295.7 
1,004. € 
615.7 
Name 
North Roadstead. ooo ooomnae-. 
Kronelgbs Basin ..o...o..._.__. 
Yew Basin... 
Depth 
Feet 
26 
31.2 
29 | 
Length 
of piers 
Yards 
1,000. 1 
1,007.6 
The hoisting equipment consists of 40 electric cranes having from 
13% to 214 metric tons capacity, 7 steam cranes, one 20-ton crane, 4 
Pheumatic grain tubes, 3 grain elevators, and 7 coal elevators, and in 
addition the general harbor authorities have a floating crane of a 
Capacity of 50 tons which is always readily available for use in the 
freq port. The warehouses are equipped with numerous freight 
Elevators for distributing goods to the upper floors. One series of 
Warehouses has galleries running their length along and over the 
Quays to which cargoes can be delivered from and to the holds of 
Vessels and thence by hand trucks to the second and third stories. 
The elevators and the pneumatic tubes on the outside of the older 
Brain silo, working together in discharging grain from the same ship, 
have a capacity of from 1,200 to 1,400 tons per working day of 
tight hours, while approximately 100 tons per hour can be discharged 
from another ship moored on the opposite side.