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The Port of Copenhagen

motor-cars in Scandinavia. At the east side of this harbour, on an artificial island composed of “fill1 and called the “Tegl- holm“ (C .D . 3 ) , Burmeister & Wain, Ltd., have erected a steel and cast iron foundry, and at the southern end there are coal depots with discharging plants. On the Teglholm work of reclamation is still going on according to plan until it has reached an area of 18.4 ha, which then will be at the disposal of future coal depots and industrial undertakings. On the southern and eastern side of this island there are quays with a depth of 7 metres. To the south of Islands Brygge and the Teglvaerkshavn the water area of the Port is dammed by a 2,230-metre em­ bankment with a lock “Slusen“ (B . 4) with a depth of 3.7 metres, a length of 53.3 metres and a width of 11.3 metres. In addition, the embankment has 28 sluices ( B . 3 ) by means of which the flow through the Port may be regulated. South of the lock, a channel of 3.1 metres depth, called the “Sorte Rende“ (A. 3 ), for the use of small craft, leads through “Kalveboderne“ to Koge Bay in the southern part of the Sound. The South Harbour in general may be characterized as a coal harbour and an industrial harbour. In the course of a relatively short space of time considerable industrial activity has taken place here with easy facilities for obtaining raw materials by sea, and being near the centre of the City.