FREE PORT OF TRIESTE

25%

in length. The latter serves to prevent the wearing out of the
slings and the former to lessen the oscillations of the hook.
The following table indicates the average daily discharge within the
free zone:

Articles from ship’s hold

Ore pyrites, bauxite, coal, etc., in bulk into open railway
 trucks.
Ore in bulk into closed trucks, phosphates, sulphur, ete.
Grain in bulk into closed railway trucks _._.._.._...__..
ge in bags into sheds (man lifting) coffee, rice, seeds,
ete.
Valo goods into sheds (man lifting), figs, quebracho,
etc.
DP ODACCO- oo oo cence emma
Various goods into warehouses with hand trucks. ___...
Grain in bulk from automatic weighing machines into
railway trucks or sheds, including bagging.
Ou ___ oo

Number
of operations

ner hour

25
25
22
18-21
18-20
18-20
18-20
18-20 1
18-20

Weight
of each
lift

Quintals
8-10
5-6
8
10-13
12-14
7-8
mR

£9
5-8

Average
weight
per
hatch
ner day

Tons
160-200

100-120
140
180-200
200-220

100-120
100-120
140-150
00-100

Means utilized
in the discharge

Wooden buckets.
Do.
Bucketsand bins,
Rope slings.
Chain nets.
Do.
Rope slings,
chains.
Buckets or bins.
Baskets.

LOADING AND UNLOADING WITHIN CUSTOM PORT

Nature of cargo

Corals, oilseeds, excepting ground nuts and oats in
ulk.

Cement. .ocueeevvanc-.
[OF:7:)
Coffee...._..
Coke...
Cotton:
American and Indian...  .. pr
Bgyptian. oo eee
Ground BUS. oon
from, old, broken up, light packed, or loose_._......_..
ron:
[0] 1
Blo mamas
Dats, in bulk __.

Petroleum ®._____.___...... .
Phosphates...co.o_...
Lumber:
a a ee
Sawn logs. -. #
Poles. comma. wh BRR
Hard timber... EE SN RRR
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Soft timber, full Jogs. «o.oo ooo.
Hard timber, full logs. «oon.
0B. oc eee meen
Sugar... emma m————
Sulphur. o.oo... mm ———
Sulphur... ____

Packing

Unit of quantity

Baskets. ___....... Tons... ..__....._.
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3AES.... 4 tre tm er me
3ulk_.. 5 —_.

Bales... ....._..
cme.
BABS emcees

Bales... _........
woe n@O LL.
BONE. cos crisis
do... __..___.

Heavy packed. _.
Jaskets_.._..___.
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adr
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Ton. ——

Cubic meters...
ean
lO. —
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Jubic meters...
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Bags. vores
aii gO ser ss srs
Bulk. cen nn
38S eee,

Daily
quantity
per
hatch 1

30
130
150
100
125
160
75

B50
300
70
30

70
125
60
80
100
2, 500
110

30
70

:
160
160
100
i154.

1 General cargo and asphalt, tar and other resinous substances in bulk, as fast as ship can deliver. Ores
and minerals, vessels with 4 hatches: 140, maximum 700 tons; more than 4 hatches, 150, maximum 700 tons.
? At San Sabbas oil port.

Reconsignment trade.—The inclosed statistics give the figures of
the recomsignment trade in the principal commodities for the year
1927, indicating the sources and countries of destination.