FREE PORT OF MALMO

117

Railway trafic

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1927
7,724 11,778 10, 388 12,536 13,716
2,626 4,101 2,908 3,377 3,355
10,350 | 15,879 13,206 | 15,013 | 17,071

1923

Freight traffic

Inward freight:
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Outward freight:
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10923

WA

Metric tons Metric fons
223, 998 316, 645
enna 133,435
114,047 19, 207
338,045 1 469,377

272, 464 |
“62,716
335,180

397, 395
41,038
33,404
471,837

1925

1926

Metric tons
335, 059
152, 029
20, 253
508, 241

1027

Metric tons
2173, 628
114,018
15, 005
402, 651

Metric tons
305, 164
140, 880
16, 455
462,479

348,221 | 396,050 138, 920
26, 542 30, 727 32, 257
27,880 34,278 36, 354
402,642 | 461,055 | 507,531

Total turnover of freight

1923___.
1924___.__.
1925 ____.-1926.
 __
1927 __

Metric tons
673, 225
041, 214
805, 294
923, 534
t, 015, 772

No further statistical information, such as for example the kind or
value of the goods handled, is available.

THE FREE PORT OF MALMO, SWEDEN
IFrom R. A. Boernstein. American consul. Malmo, Sweden]

Brief history of the port—About 150 years ago Malmo acquired its
first, boat harbor and a navigable channel with a depth of 4 feet.
Since that time the work of developing and improving the harbor has
hardly ever been interrupted. The customs port has now a total
uayage of about 4,000 meters with a depth of from 6 to 7.25 meters.
To obtain a larger quay and site accommodation the construction
of the industrial harbor was commenced in 1914. This has been
extended so that at the present time it has a quay frontage of about
500 meters in length with a depth of 7.25 meters. A large tract of
land has, at the same time, been reclaimed by means of filling in.
The most important feature of the new harbor improvements is the
free port. Through it Malmo is opened for the international exchange
of commodities and by virtue of the 9.25 meters depth of water in the
free harbor the city is in a position to reap the full benefit of its strabegic
 location on the sound.