FOREIGN TRADE ZONES 49 
At the free port of Hamburg bulk goods from overseas are to a very 
large extent transshipped to other countries. There are innumerable 
commodities entering into this trade among which are rice, rubber, 
flour, wheat, and other grains. Rice and rubber are often ultimately 
exported to the United States, while wheat, flour, and other grains 
imported from the United States are transshipped at Hamburg to 
Scandinavian and Baltic countries as well as to the hinterland. It 
is sald that practically every commodity which enters into foreign 
trade finds a place in Hamburg’s transshipment activities. 
There are no available data showing the extent of the reconsign- 
ment and transshipment trade of the free port of Hamburg. 
The principal commodities in the transshipment and reconsign- 
ment business of Bremen are cotton, tobacco, drugs, rice, coffee, 
grain, and bananas. There are no statistics available to show the 
volume of this trade. 
There is no reconsignment or transshipment business done at the 
free port of Emden, as the larger ports of Hamburg and Bremen 
handle most of this trade for Germany. 
While the transshipment trade at the free harbor of Flensburg is 
almost negligible, the reconsignment trade forms an important part 
of the business of the port. Flensburg specializes in the handling of 
grain and feeding stuffs destined for the cattle-raising districts of 
Schleswig Holstein and the Mecklenburgs. During the calendar year 
1927, 27,000 metric tons of grain and cattle food were imported 
through the free port. In addition, there were some 800 cubic meters 
of wood from Lithuania and 1,100 tons of fertilizer from Belgium 
reconsigned at this port. There were 300 tons of Russian barley 
transshipped via Flensburg to Denmark. Goods from the hinter- 
land exported via the free harbor to Denmark amounted to 3,000 tons 
of coke and 500 tons of briquettes. 
There is at present very little reconsignment or transshipment 
business done at the free port of Kiel. The only commodities enter- 
ing into this trade are stones, shavings, and alcohol. 
There is very little transshipment business done at Bremerhaven. 
Small quantities of flour and dried fruit from the United States are 
transshipped to Scandinavian countries, and bananas from the West 
Indies are also transshipped to Norway and Sweden. The greater 
portion of the merchandise unloaded in the free zone is for consign- 
ment, chiefly to Bremen and inland points. The principal com- 
modities in this trade imported from the United States are cotton, 
flour, grain, tobacco, lumber, lard, and fresh fruits, while the United 
Kingdom furnishes chiefly coal. At Cuxhaven there were 27,322 
metric tons transshipped during 1927. 
The transshipment and consignment trade of the free port of 
Stettin is comprised chiefly of ores, slags, coal, coke, briquets,