PHOTO INTERPRETATION NOTE RECONSTRUCTION, HAI PHONG CEMENT PLANT NORTH VIETNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04560A007300010016-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 1, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION CENTER
PHOTO
INTERPRETATION
NOTE
RECONSTRUCTION, HAl PNONG CEMENT PLANT
NORTH VIETNAM
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Declass Review by NIMA / DoD
NPIC/R-47/71
NOVEMBER 1971
GROUP I: EXCLUDED FROM
AUTOMATIC DOWNGRADING
AND DECLASSIFICATION
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This document contains information affecting
the national defense of the United States,
within the meaning of Title 18, sections
793 and 7.94, of the U.S. Code, as amended.
Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or 'receipt by an unauthorized person is
prohibited by law.
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RECONSTRUCTION
HAIPHONG CEMENT PLANT
NORTH VIETNAM
1. The Haiphong Cement Plant, severely damaged by airstrikes in April 1967, has been
almost completely rebuilt. Six of the original seven horizontal rotary kilns were operational
2. Operations at the plant had been entirely stopped because of extensive damage.
One of three rotary kiln buildings was destroyed, one was heavily damaged, and the other
sustained minor damage. Two clinker storage buildings were heavily damaged and one
moderately damaged. The coal treatment plant, the limestone crushing building, several
warehouses, and numerous support buildings were moderately to heavily damaged.
3. Reconstruction of the plant has been slow. One kiln of the westernmost kiln building
was repaired and operational This was the first indication of renewed
production at the plant. The second kiln of this two-kiln unit was subsequently operational.
I all three kilns of the easternmost kiln building were rebuilt and operating.
smoke was coming from the stack of the central kiln building. One of
the two kilns ot t is unit has been repaired and the other has been removed, possibly in
preparation for replacement or repair. Thirteen kiln sections were on the transshipment quay
to the east of the plant.
4. Other recent reconstruction included the addition of a new probable coal treatment
plant, replacement of a previously destroyed large warehouse, and replacement of the damaged
roof of the eastern clinker storage building. Foundations for additional new buildings indicated
continuing construction at the facility.
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FIGURE 1. RECONSTRUCTION AT HAIPHONG CEMENT PLANT
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