kraks vejviser 1933 handelsvejviser

T HE 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 (pre-war level) are assessed on the net register valid for tonnage — one month’s stay in the port — and on the quantity of goods loaded or discharged. 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 remain more than four days sailing vessels not exceeding 200 reg. tons net 14 days. The depth of water in the entrance to the harbour and in one of the basins is 10 meters. In the Free Port up to 9,5 meters and in the Custom Harbour up to 8.1 meters (26 ft. 6 in.). No tide. Inside the harbour there are bonded warehouses, pneumatic grain discharge plants coaling depots with modern cranes and tanks with fuel oil. Steamship lines are ninning to all principal ports in the Baltic, the North Sea, the Mediterranean and to transatlantic ports of the United States, East Asia, Anstralia. South America and South Africa. Five graving docks, max. length 158 m. • Five floating docks, max. capacity 13.600 tons.