DIVERSION OF PETROLEUM FROM SEA TO OVERLAND TRANSPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00527A000200020008-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Content Type: REPORT

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DIVERSION OF POLE M FEzo,gi SEA
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inn 1954 it was estimated that 3009000 tons of POL were delivered
to China frz,r Soviet Far past sources L0 of which 1509000 entered Chin
rail anid I50,,0CO by the Sun ;ari i iver,,
in 1.9559 5009OOO ;,one were estimated to have moved into Chin .
from the Soviet Far East, / same of rh:Lch came by tanker from the Black
,Sea, Again 150,000 tons of this P31. were believed to have moved via the
Sungari Rivera, if 150,000 entered China by rail from Far East sources.9
there would be a balance of 2O0,,000 tons which arrived at 0rodekovro as the
result of tanker shig.ierzt from the Black Sea i. ith transs Div- :ent by rail
through Viid1vostoko Total tanker movement from Black Sea ports to the
Soviet Fax E.a.st in 1955 was estiui ted to be 185x000 tons?* so that
rypprayd ately Zl percent the ?eof was destined. for China and tree balance
of 59 percent was for the IT5SR to supplement its inadequate Far Eastern
production,
In I956, the tanker movement fraoi the Black Sea pow to the
Soviet Far East came to some 580,00o tons,* all of wsaich cleared the
Cannel before its closing. In additions, tankers carrying a bout 54000
tcn: of Pot, proceeded t 2 rough the Canal prior to its closi from the
Satellites to China and tankers carrying some 30,,000 tons went through
the C-m.al from, the Satellites to North Vietnam, These fig .r o.a are
3# St"a=?a~.ed irortl tonnage' passing through the 13,csT)orusD giving' effect to
lead time of approximately one room.,,
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toes arriving in the Far East over an eleven mouth periods It is
estimated that dry cargo vessels carried an additional 9,000 tons of
petroleum products from the Satellites to China in 19560 Thus the closing
of the Canal blocked a flog from west to east which had been moving at an
average rate of about 60,0000 tons per month,, With an expected lag of one
month before the impact of the closing would be felt in the Far F:ast8 POL
shipments across Siberia by rail would have had to be increased as soon as
a prolonged interruption had become a virtual certaintyA probably within
ten days to two weeks. They would theoretically have been curtailed a few
days after tankers had again started to transit the Canal,,
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