TRANSPORTATION - WATER, INLAND WATERWAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600140212-1
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 212
• Publication Date: December 21, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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German Democratic Republic
Transportation - Water, inland waterway
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
DATE DIST. air Dec 1951
NO. OF PAGES 4
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO,
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1950 FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION VOLUME OR GDR M .MD WATERWAYS
This report consist' of a table based on two statistical reports dealing
with the 1950 freight volume on the inland waterways of the German Democratic
Republic One of these reports, hereafter referred to as Report A, was entitled
Gueterverkehr auf der, Binnenwaseerstrassen der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik
lm 3ar-re 194 ' fFreight Trarf'_c on the Inland Waterways of the German Democratic
Republic in 1950) It was published by the Central Statistical Office of the
State Planning Comnjseion and vac based on data furnished by the Directorate
General of Water Transport The other report, hereafter Report B, was entitled
Graphische Darstellung is- Transrortolanabwicklimg 1950, Reichsbahn and Schif--
fahrt ;{,rar.h,c Fresentaticn cf the Development of the 1950 Transportation Plan
for Relchpbahn and Water Transport) and was compiled by the GDR Ministry of
Transportation It covered railroad as well as eater transport statistics, and
it may probably be assumed that the data on water transport volume was furnished
by the Directorate General of Water Transport, vh?ch is directly subordinate to
the Ministry cf Trans crtation The commodities covered is the two report- do
not rc^incide completely, Report A giving a more detailed breakdown in most in-
stances,
The table SO .a-t
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reports, both cover _n.g the sane eubje.t, during the same period, apparently
from the ha-sic data, and thus serve as an example of the 11mI.tetions of certain
statistics n_ublished in the GDR and the necessity for using them with caution
It may als.:, b" helpful for evaluating Inland. waterway capacity in the GDR.
Report A refers to Report B, mentioning that the latter is based on-data
of freight dispatched (whereas Report A lists both freight dispatched and
freight received). It explains the difference between the two reports on the
item cf total freight volume (11,765,738 tons, as comparcd\to 1?,309,510 tons)
by pointing out that Report B does not include transports from West Berlin to
the Western occupation zones and to foreign countries, nor transports from these
areas to West Berlin It also includes only incomplete data on freight received
in the GDR from the Western occupation zones and foreign countries and on transit
traffic -
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most import int commodities in Report B were totaled and compared with manual
data on corresponding tc 4ity groups in Report A. in the latter data, figures
on transit traffic have been included dderever available, in such cases the
included transit traffic data k also 'been listed separately under "Re kn.
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1950 Freight Transportation Volume on GDR Inland Watervays
Tone Ccmrodity 222odity Tans
14,309,510 T:)tal
1,825,879 Black coal
225,235 amw brown coal
839,467 Brown coal briquettes
2,890,581
6,648 Calcium fertilizer
13,131 Phosphate fertilizer
.229,014 Potassium fertilizer
7,419 Nitrogen fertilizer
13,102 Animal and other natural
fertilizer
Total 11,765,738
269,314 Fertilizer
550,000 Nlatural stone
4,019,505 t'irt, gravel, sand
15,831 Lime and gypsum (except
for fertilizing)
253,308 Clement, mortar
62.6 Concrete building products
517,965 JLrtificial stone, slabs,
pipes
5,357,225 Construction material
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2,200,918 Does not include coke
140*
11,253*
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81,049
153,235
8,475
?,916
6,500
21,494
",'amber, above 1.5 m length
pulpvood
pit props
Other unfinished wood,
wood waste
Wooden ties
],umber
1,479,922
104, 8o0 'Potatoes
'Wheat, spelt
Rye
Barley
oats
"Corn
Rice
1,080,674
325,073 Sugar beets
Sugar, unrefined
Sugar, refined
Crude oil, crude black
and brova coal tar
Benzene
Gas oil, diesel oil, motor
oil
other mineral oil deriva-
tives
130,004 Common salt and rock salt salt
*Tons of transit freight iaeluded in corresponding figure in Column A.
155,497
24,592
90,504
No transit freight
No transit freight
No transit freight
66,925*
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1,447,718
104,712 No transit freight
14,093*
1,408*
757*
No transit freight
No transit freight