194 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES
Shipbuilding and ship repair in free zone.—Shipbuilding is Hamburg’s
 leading industry, and there are 90 works covering over 500
acres and employing about 20,000 men at this port. Of these, 59
yards covering 405 acres are situated in the free port. The number
of working men varies according to the amount of shipbuilding going
on. As there has been a strike among shipyard laborers since October
1, 1928, no definite number can be given now, though the local press
~laims that 20,000 laborers are out of employment as a result. Probably
 10,000 to 12,000 would be the normal number employed in shipyards
 in the free harbor. The largest yards are those of Blohm & Voss,
the Deutsche Werft, and the Vulcan Werft. The products of these
yards are world renowned, Blohm & Voss having constructed the
Vaterland, now the Leviathan, and the Bismarck, now the Majestic,
and the Vulcan Werft constructing the Imperator, now the Berengeria-In
 August, 1928, Blohm & Voss launched the Europa, a 46,000-ton
vessel which, with its sister ship, the Bremen, will be among the
fastest in trans-Atlantic service.
Adequate facilities exist for the repair of ships, and there are ample
floating ‘docks to meet the normally large requirements, as will be
seen by the following list of floating docks at Hamburg:

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No.
No.
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No.
Jo.

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Length
In meters

99.05
06.65
84,40
70.38
182, 57 |
167. 63
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32.30
55. 50
75.30
-84 50

00. 62
54.83
50.00 |
42.00
125, 00

5.90
33.40
33. 20
86.77
139. 20
149, 70

Breadth
between
side
walls,
meters

Draft, | LAfting
meters capacity,

10. 80
(8.45
7.10
2.82
36. 57
36.57 |
23. 00

49 |
5.49
7.62
8.53
0,14
9.14
4. 40

3,000
4, 700
17,500
17,000
38, 000
46, 000
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0.30
4.30
32. 00
5 00

5.34
7.7
11.12
] EO

6,000
9, 500
25, 000
17. 500

9. 40
22. 50
24. 00
8. 00
4. 00

8.00
6. 80
B. 46
6.00
6. 00

5,000
11, 500
8, 500
7,200
4 800

7.10 4.88 3,500
7.10 5.88 2,100
8. 29 6.10 5,700
0. 11 6.70 3,800
{7.10 4.88 5,600
8. 30 6 10 9. 500

Influence of free port on the development of foreign trade.— Although
Hamburg thus is blessed by its location at the terminus of the Elbe
one of the world’s most important highways of commerce, and just
off the Kiel Canal, connecting the North and Baltic Seas, where trade
routes from all quarters of the globe converge, the part played bY
Hambure’s free harbor in properly handling and encouraging its enor”