FREE PORT OF BREMEN 
meters (290,628 square feet), and 3 or 4 railroad tracks on each 
quay, as well as 3 between the sheds and the warehouses. On the 
quays are 64 traveling cranes of a lifting capacity of 2.5 tons and 5 of 
a lifting capacity of 5 tons; also 6 cranes of lifting capacity of 1.5 tons 
between sheds and warehouses. 
Rail and highway connections.—Both harbors are connected with 
the Bremen Railway. The railways in the harbor are owned and 
operated by the free State of Bremen. Their total trackage amounts 
to 170 kilometers (106 miles), with two large freight stations in the 
harbor territory and two locomotive sheds for 24 heavy engines. 
Both harbors are also easily accessible from the city, tram cars 
running right up to the free harbor, though it is within easy walking 
distance of the commercial center of the city. 
Highways available for motor transport radiate from Bremen to 
all parts of Germany. 
Administration.—A characteristic of the Bremen seaport traffic is 
the cooperation of a large number of independent undertakings. 
Three means of communication—railroads, vessels, and motor trans- 
port—are found in the harbor. The harbor is, for the shipping and 
forwarding organizations, the place of transshipment. To those 
interested in the goods themselves, the harbor gives the opportunity 
to inspect, to receive, or to deliver them. The harbor is thus a 
place for business dealings with the goods, their warehousing, and 
their reception and delivery. The traffic of the Bremen port had to 
be organized in consideration of these three points of view. 
The port, as part of the waterways, is regulated in its operations 
by the port regulations. These contain the regulations of the traffic 
police, which protect the harbor from dangerous or inadvisable uses 
being made of it by vessels. The harbor master superintends the 
carrying out of the regulations, and his subordinate officials, the 
harbor inspectors, render the necessary assistance in making fast. 
As the improvement of the harbors, in consequence of the modern 
developments of shipbuilding, requires great expenditures, port dues 
are charged, which are collected by the harbor office. In naturally 
difficult dock basins or those which, owing to their construction, are 
difficult to navigate special harbor pilots are employed. 
The port, as part of the railway, is served by the harbor railway as 
a general public one. In spite of this, the German National Railway 
(Reichsbahn), as well as the former Prussian State Railway, refuses 
to acknowledge it as such, except where it has forced itself through 
in the single ports in the course of the historical development. The 
consequence is an extremely varicolored picture in the different 
German places, very detrimental to competition with foreign ports. 
In Bremen the harbor railway is the property of and is worked by 
the Bremen State: in Hamburg the German National Railway man- 
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