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Terminal, number, and berthing space—There are 1,050 meters of
Quay, including a discharging jetty with a length of 300 meters, which
Also offers berths for vessels. There are 11,000 square meters avail-
able for industrial enterprises within the area of the free port.
Warehouses, number and capacity. —There are five large warehouse
sheds with an area of about 6,000 square meters, as well as an alcohol
transfer station in the free-port zone.
Rail and highway connections.—Kiel has excellent railway connec-
tions, and the free harbor is served by the Kiel-Flensburg government
"allway, and is linked up with the German railway system. Kiel
itself is served by four Government railway lines, the Kiel-Eckern-
fsrde-Flensburg-Jutland, Kiel-Rendsburg-Husum-West, Coast, Kiel-
N eumunster-Hamburg, and the Kiel-Lubeck lines.
Good roads also lead from the free port, and goods may be trans-
borted either by motor truck, railway cars, or drays * * *
In this connection, it is interesting to note that in 1925 regular air-
plane traffic connecting Kiel with Hamburg and Berlin was instituted.
How controlled and operated. — The free port is managed by the city
of Kiel and, according to information from the magistrate of Kiel, on
in average there are only four city employees or workmen required.
Number of guards.—The harbor is policed by the personnel of the
Reichs Wasserschutz, assisted by the customs officials.
Annual cost of administration. —Information as to the actual cost
*f maintaining this small free harbor was unobtainable.
Operations permitted in the Jree zone—There are practically no
festrictions on operations carried on in the free harbor. Establish-
Ments engaged in reprocessing, that is, importing raw or unfinished
300ds and exporting them after they have been reprocessed or further
Nanufactured, require a special permit from the customhouse.
Operations prohibited in the Jree zone.—Retail establishments are
00t permitted in the free zone. In addition, of course, all activities
Which are illegal within the customs area such as trade in certain
larcotics, are illegal in the free zone.
Dispatch secured in unloading vessels.—The loading and unloading
of vessels in Kiel’s free port is done with the same expedition as in
the customs area. No figures comparing the speed of loading and
loading with that of other ports are available.
Reconsignment and transshipment trade.—According to the magis-
“Tate of Kiel, there is at present very little reconsignment and trans-
Shipment, trade, the only commodities entering into such trade being
Stones, shavings, and alcohol.
. Manufacturing in the free zone.—There are a few commercial estab-
lishment located in the free zone, but the largest is an industrial
Aleoh] refilling station.
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