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 reconsignment
 and transshipment trade of the free port of Hamburg.
The principal commodities in the transshipment and reconsignment
 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 hinterland
 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 entering
 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 consignment,
 chiefly to Bremen and inland points. The principal commodities
 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,