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The Port of Copenhagen

dues, which are the same as in the Customs Harbour, and storage and labour charges, are fixed by the Department of Public Works. The chief advantage of the Copenhagen Free Port is its freedom from any Customs duties. Merchandise of every kind is landed, stored, manufactured and transhipped to other parts of the world without a single penny being paid in Customs or other dues to the Danish Exchequer. Only goods entering Denmark proper have to pass the Customs barrier. The harbour dues on imports to Denmark are not payable before removal from the Free Port into Customs territory. More than two hundred and fifty different commercial and industrial undertakings have offices and warehouse space in the buildings of the Free Port Company or have rented sites on the Company’s territory and built warehouses and fac­ tories to make use of the excellent opportunities offered them of storing, manufacturing and exporting goods without having their activities hampered by any Customs regulations. The Copenhagen Free Port is the terminus or port of call for a very large number of the big oversea steamship lines, and the number of lines making use of the harbour is rapidly growing. Copenhagen is thus in regular and direct connection with all continents, and practically in daily intercourse with all countries bordering on the Baltic. The great advantage connected with the Free Port Com­ pany is that the handling of goods, whether on board, on wharf, in shed or warehouse, is concentrated in one body, and, as a private company, its relations to labourers, shippers and merchants alike are of the best. On the other hand, through an effective Government control, the company offers the same security as an official institution.

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