The Port of Trieste was one of the first industrial ports in the world, together with Hamburg, Buenos Aires, Calcutta and Genoa, being equipped with a hydrodynamic plant. The water under very high pressure of up to 54 atm produced by the plant, was distributed into the port through 6,500 metres of underground pipes, directly feeding the cranes installed on the quay, the warehouses and the freight elevators. The plant consisted of a battery of ten  steam boilers, four main pumping steam engines and auxiliary pumps manufactured by the company of Breitfeld Daněk & Co. of Prague.