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agents, as the Free Port Co. does not undertake forwarding business, 
but merely executes orders given by the shippers to their representa- 
tives or forwarding agents. The free port of Copenhagen has a covered 
floor area of nearly 200,000 square meters and two silo warehouses. 
There are also about 100 privately owned warehouses, built on leased 
land in the free port. The present volume of the transshipment 
trade of the free port of Copenhagen is approximately 100,000 metric 
tons per year. The statistics for 1926 show that approximately 
one-half of the estimated tonnage of the transit trade was made up 
of articles of non-Danish production, as follows: 
Grain and flour__.__.__. 
Forest products and manufactures. 
Groceries... « «coco cocecocmammae 
Fruits, vegetables, nuts, etc. - 
Automobiles_.._. - 
The above statement disregards the coal and fuel oil credited to 
free-port exports, as the statistics of these commodities include and 
probably consist wholly of fuel supplies of vessels which have bunkered 
in the free port during the year. A substantial part of the products 
used for home consumption, such as grain, foodstuffs, minerals, fuel, 
and fertilizers, reach Denmark through transshipment at Hamburg. 
The transshipment and consignment trade of the free port of Malmo, 
Sweden, has not yet reached notable proportions, due to the fact 
that the port is still in an early stage of development. When the 
economic conditions among the Baltic States and Russia become more 
stabilized, it may be expected that the free port will be made use of 
to a much greater extent as a transshipment and consignment center. 
Coffee is the most important commodity imported in the free port 
of Stockholm. The majority of Sweden’s importation of this com- 
modity passes through the port. Among other important commod- 
ities in the transit trade are American automobiles, fresh fruits from 
southern Europe and the United States, and grain from North and 
South America. The free port caters chiefly to the import trade. 
The foreign transshipment trade is of less importance, being confined 
to shipments to Finland and the Baltic Republics during the winter. 
The consignment and transshipment trade at the free port of 
Gothenburg can not be said as yet to have reached any considerable 
extent, due to the fact that the free port is still in rather an early 
state of development. However, the transshipment trade is growing 
at a rapid pace. 
At the free port of Danzig it is the custom of the various importers 
to stock goods in the warehouses pending sale. If such sale is not 
effected, these goods are sometimes returned to the sender and no 
customs manipulation is necessary. There are no statistics available 
to show the extent of this business. 
Tons 
v mee -- 29,000 
8, 000 
5, 500 
4, 500 
3. 000