FREE PORT OF CUXHAVEN 167
. Beconsignment trade.—The major portion of merchandise unloaded
In the Bremerhaven free zone is for reconsignment, chiefly to Bremen
and inland points. The principal commodities imported from the
United States are cotton, flour, grain, tobacco, lumber, lard, and fresh
fruits. The United Kingdom furnishes chiefly coal, while bananas
are imported for transshipment from the West Indies.
Transshipment trade.—The transshipment trade at Bremerhaven
is not very extensive. 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 Norwav and
Sweden.
Manufacturing in free zone.—There are no manufacturing indus-
tries in the free zone area of Bremerhaven. }
Shipbuilding and ship-repair facilities —The only ship-repair facili-
ties available in the free zone area of Bremerhaven are those of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Co. These yards are well equipped
and offer their facilities to all vessels which need repairs while at
this port.
Influence of free port in trade and merchant marine. —The establish-
Ment of this free port has had a marked influence on the increase in
trade and merchant marine at Bremerhaven.
The statistics given below show the net registered tonnage of
Vessels entering this port between the vears 1831 and 1926:
Yaar
831
18g 777mm
S80.
860-0
870 177
88y_ "77"
I8gp ~~"
Shipping
entered,
net regis-
ered tons
50,07
100, 000
150, 000
300, 60
“50
[,000 ...
1. 300. 000
Year
B00...
910.._.._...
Gil.
M2
Js —
Lain
1915...
Shipping
2ntered,
net regis-
ered tons
1, 450, 00,
', 950, 000
, 100, 000
2, 300, 000
2, 400, 000
1, 100, 000
DIONE]
Year
Nbc cpu
OF] es nsmmw
HE cess
919...
920 cco.
Meee
Shipping
entered,
net regis-
ered tons
300, 00C
450, 000
600, 000
400, 000
650, 00
1, 500, 00(
2 000. 000
Year
928 oe...
1924...
O25.
WO_...
Shipping
entered,
net regis-
tered tons
2, 150, 000
2, 100, 000
1, 900, 000
2, 700, 000
Additional statistics on the port of Bremerhaven have been for-
Varded and included in the report on the city of Bremen furnished
by the American consulate at Bremen, Germany.
THE FREE PORT OF CUXHAVEN, GERMANY
[From G. Bie Ravndal, American consul general fn charge, Hamburg}
NovemsER 10, 1928.
Brief history of the port—Cuxhaven as a free port was never of
ny importance until the last century, although the first dykes were
Probably built during the eleventh century. Throughout the Middle
Ages it was a Province of Hamburg, being part of the bailiwick of
Rittsbitel, It has always been a port subordinate to Hamburg
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