Danmarks Handel og Industri

143 København. — Copenhagen. — Copenhague. — Kopenhagen. Copenhagen is situated in 55° 41' North and 12° 36' East on the Øresund (The Sound), the natural waterway between the Baltic and the North Sea. Øresund and the Port of Copenhagen have at all times been the centre of the Baltic trade and before the outbreak of the great War it was the focus for regular steamship lines glying on all Baltic ports in North Germany, Russia, Finland and Sweden, on Norway and all important places in Great Britain, Western Europe, the countries bordering on the Mediter- ranean, and also on the United States of America, Cape Colony, Australia and East Asia. These lines will all be resumed after the conclusion of peace. (A list of Danish steamship routes is found in page 161). On account of the alterations in respect of the forwarding of goods which to all appearances will be brought about by the World War, the port of Copenhagen and especially the port of it which is constructed as a Free Port with all modern equipments, will in a still higher degree than hitherto become the natural basis for the transit trade on the Baltic, and extensions are being carried out in order to secure the best conditions possible for trade and shipping. Among other things large areas have been laid out for the establishment of industrial concerns with direct access to quay, and further- more the quays and warehouses of The Free Port are being extended so that the aggregate length of the quays of the Free Port since 1914 has been extended by one third and its warehouse area by more than 50 per Cent. The port of Copenhagen is formed by the channel between the island of Amager and Sjælland; at present it has a length of 8.4 kilometres while that oj the quays comprises 30.000 meters (see annexted plan). During the last decade the port has been in constant and rapid development, and al the present moment, April 1919, further schemes for great extensions during the coming years have been worked out, whereby the length of the quays 10