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The Port of Copenhagen

breadth of 27 metres with 8 roadways (4 in either direction), compared previously with 2 roadways, besides the pavements. The whole work in connection with the construction of the bridge has cost about 5.1 million kroner, which expenditure has been distributed between the Municipality and the Port in the ratio 2 : 1 . Reconstruction of Havnegade’s Quays As mentioned elsewhere the regular shipping traffic to Malmo, Landskrona and the Island of Bornholm and the steamship company “0resund’s“ summer traffic in the Sound with small pleasure vessels takes place from Havnegade. The quays here had not been renewed since the close of the last century, and as, in the course of time, they had come to suffer from various defects, the Port Authority decided at their meeting on October 18th, 1935, to grant a sum of 840,000 kroner for reconstruction of these quays, which cover a total length of 550 metres. The new quay consists of a basic construction of iron piling (Belval) with a super-construction of granite. The quay walls have been placed at the present water-depth of about 6.9 metres, but have been sunk so deep that the water-depth may be increased to 8.1 metres. The work was commenced during the autumn of 1935 and completed during the spring of 1937 with a pause during the summer months of 1936 for the sake of the considerable summer traffic. The New Yacht Harbour In order to meet the demands made of late years by owners of yachts for better conditions the Port Authority in the spring of 1937 began the construction of a new Yacht Harbour in Svanemollebugten situated north of Kalkbraenderihavn (U. V . 3, 4 ).

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