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SHIPPING DDES.
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falls below a tenth of its net register tonnage. Vessel which, during voyage
between foreign ports, in Swedish harbour loads or unloads goods to at most a
fourth of its tonnage, is free of dues. The Commerce and Navigation committee
has proposed the abolition of this due, but it has lead to no result.
The pilotage. Valid regulations are given in the proclamation of
November 17, 1896, which with obligation to employ pilot unites pilotage-duty as a
rule. Vessel which sails between Swedish and foreign port and passes a pilot’s
fairway for piloting through which the vessel during current civil year has paid
pilotage ten times, if it is a steamer, and five times if it is a sailing-vessel, is
released from pilotage during the remaining part of the year, if the foreign port
is situated inside the line Lindesnäs—Hanstholm, but these dues are reduced to
half the price if the foreign port lies beyond the aforesaid line. Vessels of 40
tons or below that are free of dues, and also steamers which make regular voyages
between Swedish and Danish ports at Öresund.
The light-due, which about 1870 accrued also on vessels iu home-shipping,
is now paid only by vessels over 40 tons in foreign shipping. According to a
proclamation of June 14, 1894, light-due shall be paid with 25 öre (3 s d.) per
ton of the net register tonnage for every vessel, which arrives from or leaves for
foreign port, but if such due has been paid during a civil year, for steamer
eight times and for sailing-vessel four times, the vessel is free from paying this
due during that year.
From the above-mentioned three kinds of dues, coaling-and
provisioning-vessels and vessels looking for orders are released, further vessel which owing to
forcible reason touches at a port, Crown vessel, a. o.
Tonnage to the Seamen’s Register Offices is made out, for vessel which
from Swedish port leaves for Norway or foreign port, with 3 öre (0’4 d.), if the
vessel is Swedish or Norwegian or belonging to a foreign nation in the ports of
which Swedish vessels enjoy national treatment, but otherwise with 5 öre (0" 7 d.),
— all per ton according to Swedish or equal foreign bill of tonnage. If a vessel
leaves a Swedish port several times during a calendar month, the due is paid
only once a month.
Harbour dues are paid for vessels and goods according to special taxes
confirmed by the Government on the advice of the authorities with the application
of certain principal rules, and with a validity of five years.
Land money is paid for vessel which makes use of institutions for
shipping at certain sufferance-wharfs, principally in Norrland, after that the owners
have obtained the permission of the Government to receive dues according to a
fixed rate. These dues are generally reduced to half for vessels which at the
place unload or load capacity not exceeding half the burden of the vessel.
The dues for the register measurement in Sweden at present, as a rule,
fall upon the owner. For bill of tonnage and some other papers of a vessel,
stamp-duty and expedition-fee are paid.
Concerning all kinds of dues here mentioned, the Commerce and Navigation
committee has proposed altered rules, purposing to lighten the burden of taxes
resting on the shipping.
Abroad, Swedish vessels have hitherto paid consulage and, in Great-Britain,
a fee to the Swedish church in London. Consulage, which fee, however, recently
has been abolished (from 1904 inclusive), was to be paid in a port where there
was a Swedish-Norwegian Consul appointed. The fee to the Swedish church in
London is paid with 0"6 penny per ton by vessels which arrive in London,
and with 0-3 penny by vessels which arrive in other parts of Great Britain
and Ireland. The Commerce and Navigation committee has proposed the
taking away of this fee and its replacement by a corresponding Government
grant.
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