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The railroads in the port of Fiume have a length of 65,000 meters, 
of which 10,169 meters are laid out along the quays, with 37 turn- 
tables and 11 shunting platforms, enabling a circulation of 600 trucks 
per day. 
Administration—The administration of the free port is under the 
control of the railroad, the harbor master, and the customs, all under 
the immediate direction of a Government commissioner. 
The port is protected by guards employed by concerns having 
private depots, as well as by royal carabinieri, customs guards, the 
Fascist railroad militia, and police agents. A new organization for 
the management of the bonded warehouses has been instituted by 
royal decree, dated September 29, 1927, and will shortly operate. 
There are no details available as to the annual cost of administration 
of this port. 
Operations permitted in the free zone.~—~The regulations of the free 
port permit of the following operations: 
The deposit, transport, packing, and manipulation of goods, their 
delivery and reconsignment is allowed; letting of warehouse space to 
private trading concerns; unloading and loading into trucks or vessels; 
space for the customs for the release and payment of custom duties 
on goods; insurance of goods against fire; payment of freights, cus- 
toms duty, octroi duties, rates, taxes, and subsidies; advances on other 
charges on goods; sales of goods by public auction; subsidizing of 
2oods- shipped in the care of the bonded warehouses and lying in 
depots. 
Operations forbidden in the free zone.—All operations in competition 
with the bonded warehouses and contrary to the customs laws and 
the harbor sanitary rules are forbidden. 
Despatch secured in unloading vessels —Loading and unloading 
dperations are effected by means of 23 cranes distributed as follows: 
Tons capacity 
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Quay Rizzo (8 electric cranes). ___ 
Quay Rizzo (4 electric cranes) . 
Pier Napoli (6 electric cranes 
Pier Napoli (2 electric cranes)... _. 
Breakwater Cagni (1 electric crane)... _. 
Pier Ancona (1 hand crane). _. 
Quay Rainer (1 hand crane) _ 
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On the railroad station platform there are two cranes, one of 5 tons 
And the other of 10 tons capacity. 
~The lifts in the warehouses are partly electric and partly hydraulic. 
These are: 
5 electrie lifts. __ ____________ 
54 electric lifts. ___._________ 
8 hydraulic lifts... 
8 hvdraulic lifts. 
Tons capacity 
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