Further Report On The Free Port Of Copenhagen

No. 351. Hejerence to previous Reports, Miscellaneous Series Nos. 185, 206, and 230. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN. Mr. Scott to the Earl of Kimberlei/. My Lord, Copenhagen, December 8, 1894. I HAVE the honour to forward herewith a Report on the Free Port of Copenhagen, which lias been drawn up by Mr. Corbett, Second Secretary to this Legation. In this Report a full description is given of the facilities now offered to foreign trade in transit to the northern ports of Europe, and it is on the maintenance and extension of that trade that the future success of the undertaking in a great measure depends. An agency entitled the “Copenhagen Free Port Transit Trading Agency ” lias already been established within the precincts of the Free Port to serve the interests of foreign firms who may wisli to avail themselves of the new facilities. The manager of this Agency and the authorities of the Free Port Company are especially anxious to secure a wide advertisement in British India and the Colonies of the existence and advantages of the New Free Port of Copenhagen, and the information whicli Mr. Corbett lias been at pains to collect from the most reliable sources will no doubt be useful in determining how far a new opening has been created for Britisli trade in these parts of the world. The enclosed Report is intended as a continuation and completion of that forwarded by Mr. MacDonell to the Marquis of Salisbury, on May 27, 1891 (published in the Miscellaneous Series of Reports on Subjects of General and Commercial Interest, 1891, No. 206). I have, &c. (Signed) CHARLES g SCOTT. (1882) A 2