Kraks vejviser 1924 Handelsregister

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q P H E PORT OF COPENHAGEN, situated at the entrance to the Baltic, offers excep- tional facilities for all transit and transshipping trade on the Baltic. The harbour dues, which are very moderate, are assessed on the net register tonnage — valid for one month’s stay in the port — and on the quantity of goods loaded ordischarged. No other charges, such as fees to the State, light dues, etc. are levied for the use of the port. Ships which call on the port with the sole object of taking in coal or oil for the use of the ship, provisions, or for orders, do not pay any dues when the vessel does not reniain more than four days. The depth of water in the Free Port is up to 9,5 meters (31 feet) — a 10 meters deep basin is under construction — and in the Custom Harbour up to 8;1 meters (26 ft. 6 in.). No tide. Inside the harbour there are bonded warehouses, coaling depots with modern cranes and tanks with fuel oil. , ' - Steamship lines run to all principal ports in the "Baltic, the-North Sea, the Mediterranean and to transatlantic ports of the United States, East Asia, Australia, South America and South Africa. Five graving docks, max. length 158 m. \ Four floating docks, max. capacity 13.600 tons. . ’ ’