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Bates on goods are levied on the ton weight of all goods conveyed on steamers
either entering or leaving the port.
Other sources of port revenue—such as rents from land and buildings, use of
cranes, graving docks, machinery, etc., vary according to local circumstances in
different ports.
As a rule charges for special accommodation to vessels or goods should at least
equal the expenditure on the part of the Port authority, but there are occasions
when a graving dock or floating crane is worked at a loss because it is not sufficiently
used to pay expenses, and yet the port would not be properly equipped without it
and might indirectly suffer from the want of same.
(23) The following is a list of rates and dues which may reasonably be expected
to form the revenue of the Port of Basra, but under present conditions it is im
practicable to suggest charges to meet each case.
CHARGES ON VESSELS.
List of rates
and dues proposed
at Basra.
w Port due s—k charge per ton on the nett registered tonnage of all vessels
arriving in the port.
( M ) Wharfage charges.—k charge either per registred ton or per day, for
the use of the wharves and jetties.
( w ) Mooring hire and Harbour Masters' fees.—A. charge per day or per
registered ton on every vessel using a swinging mooring, and a fee on
every occasion that a Harbour Master moves a vessel.
(™) Carg ° hoat and P assen ger boat licenses.—It is usual in every river port
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or cargo an passenger boats- plying for hire to be registered and
charged a fee for a license.
DUES ON GOODS.
(«) A Charge per ton on all goods arriving or departing on a sea-going vessel
within the port.
(it) charge for the use of the wharves and jetties when goods are either
anded on or shipped from a wharf set aside for sea-going steamers,
(m) Demurrage charges, ground rents and warehouse rents
INLAND VESSELS’ TRADE.
LAND rents.
A h m f y be antici P ated port lands rented out
to merchants and traders.
CONCLUSION.
action until the trade is clamouring for accommodation.