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shipping dues.
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change was made to the German, which is still in force, but with the right for
steamers to have their burden also calculated after the British rule, and the
result thereof entered in an appendix to the Bill of Tonnage. Quite lately, a
return to the British rule has been urged from several quarters, and experts
consulted in 1911 have submitted a proposal for the revision of the regulations
concerning the measurement of ships, which would be necessitated by the
suggested change to the last-mentioned rule.
General dues in Swedish ports for Swedish and foreign vessels are: lastage,
pilotage, light-house, and light-ship dues, tonnage fees to the Seamen Registry
Office, harbour-dues, and land money.
The lastage, which in the decade 1877 — 85 was 14 ore per ton, was, in 1885,
reduced by 4 ore and is the same for Swedish and foreign vessels, being 10
ore (1"3 d) per ton, according to the bill of tonnage. They are payable each
time a vessel enters from or clears for a foreign port, as the case may be. If
a vessel makes several voyages during one calendar year between Sweden and a
foreign port, these dues are paid only when leaving for the first voyage, and on
return only when the vessel carries a cargo and unloads a greater or smaller portion
thereof, in which connection a vessel is considered as being in ballast when the
cargo falls below one tenth of the vessel’s net register tonnage. A vessel which,
on its voyage between foreign ports, loads or unloads in a Swedish port goods
amounting to not more than one fourth of its burden is exempt from the
pay-ment of dues.
Pilotage fees. Swedish legislation combines, as a rule, compulsory pilotage
with pilotage fees. A vessel making voyages betwen Swedish and foreign ports,
which has to pass through some pilotage channel, where the vessel has paid
pilotage fees 10 times during the current calendar year, in the case of a steamer
or steam barge, and 6 times in the case of a sailing vessel, is exempt from
pilotage fees for the remainder of the year, provided the foreign port lies within
the line Lindesnäs—Hanstholm; but these fees are reduced by one half, if the
foreign port lies beyond the said line. Vessels of 40 tons and under are exempt
from these dues, likewise steamers making regular voyages between Swedish and
Danish ports on the Sound, as well as certain other vessels.
The light-house dues, which, formerly, were also levied on vessels trading
between home ports, are now levied only on foreign-going vessels of more than
40 tons. Every vessel arriving from or leaving for a foreign port has to pay
dues of 25 ore per register ton, but in the event of such dues having been
paid, in the case of a steamer or steam barge eight times, and in the case of
a sailing vessel four times, the vessel is exempt from further payment of these
dues during the remainder of that year.
Exemption from the afore-mentioned three kinds of dues is granted to vessels
calling for orders, coaling, or provisioning, as well as to vessels forced to seek
a refuge, Crown vessels, and others.
The tonnage-fee to the Seamen Registry Office for a vessel leaving a Swedish
port for a foreign one is 3 ore, if the vessel be Swedish or belongs to some
foreign nation in whose harbours Swedish vessels enjoy national treatment, but
otherwise 5 ore — everything per ton according to Swedish or equivalent
foreign bill of tonnage. If a vessel leaves a Swedish port several times in the
course of a calendar month, the fee is payable only once a month.
Harbour-dues are levied upon vessels and goods in conformity with special
tariffs ratified by the Government, with the application of certain main
principles, on the advice of the authorities, and in force for five years.
Land-money is levied for vessels utilizing institutions for shipping at certain
sufferance-wharves, chiefly in Norrland, after the owners have obtained Government
permission to levy the duties according to a tariff fixed for that particular case.
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