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FOREIGN TRADE ZONES

Dimensions and area of free zone.—The free port has an area of
74.1 acres. It consists of a basin some 500 meters in length and 50
meters in width, on each side of which is an area of some 150,000
square meters which are set aside for industrial activities.
Terminals, number and berthing space.—The only wharf of the free
port is about 500 meters (1,640.4 feet) in length.
Warehouses, number and capacity. —On the wharf is a newly cob”
structed grain elevator * * * with a capacity of 6,000 metric
tons. It is equipped with an elevator having a capacity of 100 metric
tons per hour. There is also a warehouse with 5,000 square meters
(53,820 square feet) of floor space equipped with two electric cranes,
one of 2 and the other of 3 metric tons capacity.
Railway and highway connections.—The free-port zone is connected
with the Reichsbahn and the local Flensburg railway. There are
three tracks along the quay and the industrial sections on each side
of the basin are also connected by rail. The same railway tariff i
applied to the Flensburg free harbor as for the Flensburg station
and direct routes connect the free harbor to Hamburg, Kiel, Husu
Niebull, Westerland, Pattburg, and Fredericia. The local line con”
nects directly with Cappeln and Satrup.
How controlled and operated. —The Flensburg free harbor is adminis”
tered by the Flensburger Freihafen Lagerhaus A. G., a company
which has taken over the management of the port under contract:
fmport and export control is, of course, exercised by the official
customs administration.
Number of guards—The company managing the free harbor does
not keep any special guards in the free port, the Flensburg police
also policing this small area.
Annual cost of administration.—I1t is estimated that the expensé®
of administration of the free port total only 24.000 marks (85.712
yearly).
Trade operations permitted in free harbor —Manufacturing processe®
are permitted in the free harbor under the same conditions as in the
customs area. .
Trade operations. prohibited in the free zome.—All retail business ¥
prohibited in the free harbor as well as such trades which are co”
sidered to be injurious to trades carried on within the customs zo?
Despatch secured in unloading vessels. —In the free harbor goods m8}
be discharged without customs control, stored and manufacture
according to desire. The equipment is sufficient for the amount
business at present carried on in this free harbor, though no statisti’
comparing the speed with which vessels are loaded or unloaded af?
available.
Reconsignment trade.—Flensburg specializes in the handling of gr?
and feeding stuffs destined for the cattle-grazing districts of Schles"