Kraks vejviser 1928 Handelsregister

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Goods discharged and loadod, tons 4.984.000 1.585.000 1.070.000

Arrivals

Copenhagen ....................... .. 17.400 Aalborg—Nørresundby . . . .. 5.600 A arhus.............................. .. 4.200 Esbjerg.............................. .. 1.000 Odense .............................. .. 2.000 Nyborg.............................. 700 Fredericia.......................... .. 1.400 Horsens.............................. .. 1.400 Nakskov............................ .. 2.100

606.000 506.000 392.000 281.000 258.000

257.000 Most of the Danish harbours in the market towns belong to the respective munici- palities. The port of Copenhagen is an independent institution in the management of which the .State, the municipality and the large trade organizations are represented. The Copenhagen Free Port is owned by the Copenhagen Harbour Board but‘"is carried on by a joint stock company. . The, harbours at Elsinore, the Scaw, Frederikshavn and Esbjerg and alsé certain fisbing harbours belong to the State. ' ■ ' • ' f 1 f ( , During the last decade the most important Danish harbours, especially Copenhagen harbour and thé Copenhagen Free Port have undergone very considerable exténsions and likewise the technical appliances have been modernized. !l:‘'|r ' 1' r m l . ■ j . „ . ! . ; •’• r . i - ■ i r T ;• Advertisements,page 206! , • ( :i;O The first railway in Denmark was opened in 1847 and ran from Copenhagen 7l'o Ros­ in the year 1862 ,the total length of railway lines in this country was 109 kilom., in 1900 it was 2914 km. and at the beginning of 1927 thé figures were 5073 km. (:Xboht one half of the railways are State Railways. ’ The faet of thé Danish railway system being less (deyeloped than those o f, some,few other countries is, easily accounted for by the great im­ portance of the coasting traffic which is måinly carried on between the numerous ports all.pver ,the. country by Det forenede Dampskibs Selskab ,(The United Steamship Co. Ltd.) establi^hed )p 1866. The State Railways maintain a steam-ferry connexion with Sweden between Copen­ hagen—Malmd and Elsinore—Helsingborg, and with Germany between Gjedser—Warnemiindé. .The main .overland connexion, between Denmark and,Central and South Europe is, via Pad- .borg in North Slesvig. r . Thanks principally to Denmark’s excellent roads the motor traffic in recent years has- ^cquired very considerable importance both for passenger and goods traffic. In the year 1925- there,., was one automobile, for eyery 55 of the population, whereas abroad the figures for the same year were as follows: Gt. Britain one for every 60 of the population, in trance one for. every 71, in Belgium -one for every 121 and in Germany one for every '244 of ithe p o p u l a t i o n . . r r J . ,A . P . The country is interwoyen with a net of omnibus routes of which' there aré at, pre­ sent over 700. r The Mail and Telegraph services in Denmark are , exelusively in the hånds! of' the .Stater The" Great Northern Telegraph Company, founded in 1869, has laid out and^owns an >extensive cable system in. Europe and Asia. , T , ( , On the other hånd the Telephone service, apart from the inter-provincial communi- ,, cation and that of North Slesvig, is in private hånds. In Denmark eyery twelfth person/has. r .a, telephone,. and this is.oniy.exceeded by U. S. A. rwhere, every eighth person pqssesses. a telephone. . , , kilde. g i r- Other Communications. f C- V QiO. o?i

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