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special legislative authority. - Under the same article the Secretary 
of the Interior (Ministry for Home Affairs) is empowered to license 
any other form of activity, including retail stores, with the special 
Proviso that no difficulties shall be offered to the manufacture or 
sale of articles destined for export or for the provisioning of vessels. 
Up to the present date, however, no manufacturing operations in 
the free port have been undertaken, nor have any retail stores been 
established. 
Dispatch in unloading vessels.—On an average, 25 tons of goods in 
sacks, 15 to 20 tons of miscellaneous merchandise, and approxi- 
Mately 15 tons of oil cake are discharged per hour. Grain is dis- 
charged at the rate of from 1,200 to 1,400 tons per day of eight 
hours, No figures are available on which comparison between the 
discharge capacity in the free port and in the general harbor could 
be based, but, generally speaking, it may be said that faster service 
Prevails in the former than in the latter. The inner harbor has 26 
coal cranes with a capacity of from 30 to 80 tons per hour and there 
&re 3 privately owned grain elevators with a working capacity of 
from 20 to 60 tons per hour. 
Reconsignment irade.—Understanding the meaning of this term 
t be the distribution of foreign goods billed to-an agent, jobber, or 
Wholesaler in the free port through subsequent consignment in 
hulk or otherwise to subagents or buyers in Denmark or abroad, 
there appears to be no statistics available by which trade of this cate- 
Bory might be distinguished from goods entering into the trans- 
shipment trade. 
There are about a hundred privately owned warehouses built on 
leased land in the free port, others rent space in the free port ware- 
houses, while still others handle the distribution of foreign wares, 
Whether to domestic buyers or buyers abroad, in a casual way, that 
8, through immediate withdrawal, or through storage in the general 
Warehouses of the free port as circumstances require. It is to be 
Noted, however, that in the case of wholesalers or jobbers doing 
Purely a domestic business no advantages are gained by use of the 
freq port and foreign goods consigned to such are commonly dis- 
Charged in the general harbor. If the goods they have ordered abroad 
form part of a general cargo discharged in the free port they are 
Sherally transferred to the owners’ warehouses within the city 
Sther direct from the ship or within the period of free storage per- 
Mutted, that is to say, two weeks. 
Transshipment trade —While exact figures of the transit trade are 
Dot available, official statistics on the subject not being distinguished 
from the total of exports cleared from and through the free port, 
the approximate present volume is 100,000 metric tons. Compared 
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