CARGO ROUTES, FLEETS, AND COMMODITIES SHIPPED ON THE BLACK, AZOV, AND CASPIAN SEAS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050193-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 193
• Publication Date: January 20, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDUTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
DATE DISTR.ao Tan 1954
SUBJECT Cargo Routes, Fleets, and Commodities Shipped on NO. OF PAGES
25X1 the Black, Azov, and Caspian Seas
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED
ILT (CF fl O?)
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. The main dry-cargo rcuteee in the Black and .Azov R-.q- v: r.. r c v ?~.,_
c zrcdlti.s ca--i ad are u1 o _ni' .-'re3) t -
(a) Poti-Mariupol; manganese, iron, and other ores
(b) Kariupol-Odessa or Nikolaev; Donbas coal.
(c) Novorossisk-other Black Sea, other Soviet, and foreign ports; low.-
priced cement
(d) IQierson, Odessa, Novoroseisk-foreign port.; wheat, rye, rice, oats
(e) Novoroesisk, Khereon, and Odessa-foreign ports; lumber.
In addition, there, was much local cargo transport, determined by local
and temporary needs, such as construction projects. As of mid-1941, about
half of the a t,. foreign, engaged in picking up
- F- on -~ ow:e zvutei were various types of cargo.
2. The most important route on the Caspian Sea was for oil tankers, from Baku
to Astrakhan anchorage. The main dry-cargo routes mere:
(a) Nakhachkala-Krasaovodsk; grain
(b) Baku.drasnovodsk; grain, flour, sugar, and other consumer goods
(c) Krasnovodek-Baku; cotton.
3. The largest cargo shipping organization in the USSR was the Black Sea Ship-
ping Aiministration (UChP - Upravlem y Chhern r,Y.ovc Parakhv,ietvo)., i"
headquarters in Odessa. It had appro:immtel.y 50 cargo ships, ranging fro-
one to ten thousand tons capacity. The Azov Sea Shipping Admintetration
(Upravleniya Azovskovo Parahhodatvo), with headquarters ir, Rostov, hat
about 15 vessels of approximately one thousand tons capacity each. The
Caspian Sea Shipping Admiaistration (Kaspar - Kaspiskaya Parskhodetvo),
located in Baku, had approximately 75 small, ships, from 500 to 3000 tons
capacity.
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