FREE PORT OF COPENHAGEN 85
vessels in the domestic trade, the bay southward being too shallow
for large seagoing craft. Vessels which visit the free port and thereafter
proceed to Baltic ports or the Kiel Canal round the small island
of Amager and follow the Drogden Channel which parallels the east
coast of that island until the deeper waters of the Baltic are reached.
The total land area of the free port is 128 acres, and the water area
82.5 acres.
There are five basins with piers running their full length appropriately
equipped with cranes for loading and discharging vessels and
skirted by railroad tracks. A sixth basin, representing the northernmost
extension of the free port, was constructed just after the war to
take care of the increased traffic which it was believed would flow to
Copenhagen after the settling of Europe to a peace basis, but the ex-Pectations
which gave rise to its creation were not realized, and this
basin remains unequipped and not even inclosed in the free port.
The total length of the piers in use is 5,220 yards. The docks are
paralleled by railroad tracks and goods may be transferred to cars
either direct from the holds of vessels, or from the warehouses which
lie adjacent.
The depths of the different basins and the length of the piers
adjacent are as follows:
Name
East Basin...
West Basin ___ IIIT
Middle Basin __T1TTTTTTTTTT
Depth
Feet
30
26
26
Length
of piers
Yards
1,295.7
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615.7
Name
North Roadstead. ooo ooomnae-.
Kronelgbs Basin ..o...o..._.__.
Yew Basin...
Depth
Feet
26
31.2
29 |
Length
of piers
Yards
1,000. 1
1,007.6
The hoisting equipment consists of 40 electric cranes having from
13% to 214 metric tons capacity, 7 steam cranes, one 20-ton crane, 4
Pheumatic grain tubes, 3 grain elevators, and 7 coal elevators, and in
addition the general harbor authorities have a floating crane of a
Capacity of 50 tons which is always readily available for use in the
freq port. The warehouses are equipped with numerous freight
Elevators for distributing goods to the upper floors. One series of
Warehouses has galleries running their length along and over the
Quays to which cargoes can be delivered from and to the holds of
Vessels and thence by hand trucks to the second and third stories.
The elevators and the pneumatic tubes on the outside of the older
Brain silo, working together in discharging grain from the same ship,
have a capacity of from 1,200 to 1,400 tons per working day of
tight hours, while approximately 100 tons per hour can be discharged
from another ship moored on the opposite side.
