. Ports and terminal facilities . heseaport of Bavaria and Baden. Mannheim has a hinterlandfor local and maritime commerce just as any seaport has. Goodstransshipped directly from sea-carrier to barges, of 3,000 tonscapacity, may come from Rotterdam into the port of of the freight from overseas comes through to Mannheimin bond. In Mannheim are 150 bonded warehouses; 25 of theseare devoted to tobacco, 10 to grain, 23 to coffee and other colonialgoods. In 1912 Mannheim paid 50,000,000 marks or $12,000,000in customs duties to the Empire. At the head of the list of goodsreceived stan
. Ports and terminal facilities . heseaport of Bavaria and Baden. Mannheim has a hinterlandfor local and maritime commerce just as any seaport has. Goodstransshipped directly from sea-carrier to barges, of 3,000 tonscapacity, may come from Rotterdam into the port of of the freight from overseas comes through to Mannheimin bond. In Mannheim are 150 bonded warehouses; 25 of theseare devoted to tobacco, 10 to grain, 23 to coffee and other colonialgoods. In 1912 Mannheim paid 50,000,000 marks or $12,000,000in customs duties to the Empire. At the head of the list of goodsreceived stand wheat, petroleum, tobacco, corn, and were more than 108 important articles besides many others(Fig. 100). The remarkable extent to which Mannheim is a link between INLAND WATERWAYS AND THE SEAPORT 241 inland navigation by water and freight movement by rail isshown in some statistics.^ Of all the freight entering Mannheim,5,608,000 tons, by far the largest part, came from the middle fitci fflOt^ riiof- /?»(* po^ ^1. To THE B»oeN ^T/iTE Railways (and JO BAVnnifii) INCLUDING TFf»rflC ACROSSTHE BRIDGE TO LuDtVIGSHAi/EN Fig. 100.—Total goods traffic of the Inland River Port of Mannheim, shows a river port as a link between river commerce (above) and railcommerce (below). Rhine. Only 678,000 tons were received from the Prussian-Hessian railroad system, 170,000 tons from the Upper Rhine,and 1,293,000 tons by rail from Baden and Bavaria. The pre-1 Taken from a pamphlet issued by the Maunheim Chamber of 242 PORTS AND TERMINALS ponderance of transit freight is evident since of a total movementof 13,424,000 tons at Mannheim, only 2,000,000 tons were forlocal consumption. Of the total freight entering Mannheim,4,403,000 tons go into Bavaria and Baden by rail, being trans-shipped in the port of Mannheim; 530,000 tons into Prussia andHessia by rail. It can be seen that the traffic is almost entirelyone way. The reason is that far more than half of al
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