ECONOMIC -- MARITIME SHIPPING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 629
• Publication Date: March 31, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT N0.
Soeiet aeyapapera as indioated. (Infarmattan requested.)
FAR. EAST MARITIME FTEET SEPP~E%5C CRITICIZED
COH?'EB&t~CE GRITIGI'LF8 FAS EAST FLEffiP ADMIIQISTSATION -- graeaoye Znemya,
No 1~, ?0 Jan $~
A oonferenoe of part;, ~embere and workare is the meriiiou transport ilnet
of the Paoifio Ooean Hnefs vas held on 1?-18 January, in Vladivostok, to
dlaouae the reasons for the failure of the Far Feet Sta*,e Steamship :1ne to
fulfill the 191/8 plan for ti1u11ng. Korobteov, ohisf of the "Glavdal'flot"
(Main Administration of the Par Feat Fleet) oomplexined that ships undergoing .
repair are alloyed to rema.ia Idle for to: laclg a period. 9uppliee of
materials are not euf2loiant, the oonCiti~n of several ships has been
negleoted, and personnel Se ineffioient.
Syrykh~ ohlef of the Steamship l1ae, admitted the look or organisation
is ??he operatdor of the Ltne. The ship-meohanic service, for eznmple, has
not madt.sui?talent study cf ship meohtnery sad often fails to reoogaire tho
volumt, o?, repairs to be Pone on t:~ivlduci ships. The engineers direotiap,
the work are Ineffielsnt. Ship-rnpci.?~ slants, particulxriy the Vladivostok
Plant, do not provide quality repair lobe etld ships have to be returned re-
peatedij for addit.touni repairs. Syrykh oleo stated that some ship Drays
are eo:treasly Dateless .n handliu~ the ship's machinery. Bgyev, Vice
Minister of the Ma:ltirao Fleet U'S3R, nad Shchegolev, aeoretary of the
Primorekiy Bray Committee V'~(ti) also spoke at the Ccnference.
31~-REPAII2 PIJIPTS 1NEFFI~.ffi~i'f -- TCrsaaoye Znamye, Ao 10, 13 Jan 49
The quality of repairs made by repair plants of "Glnvdnl'flot" {Ma1a
Administration of the Far Eaet Fleet) is very lov. The steamship Borodino
after laving spent several months at one of thane plrata, has been held up
at Pladivostot by the Maritime Eegietrar beoauee its wain engine has not
Deen fu11,P repaired. Ship Drays have been doing some cf *hei. ova repair
~oba, but "Mortekhenab" (Maritime Teohnical Supply) sad ti.9 supply divisio:.
of "Glavdal'flot" in Vladivostok have been elov in seadiog supplies, spare)
parts, and materials to the seamen. Some of the repair orders veto assigned
stet[ leavr lal~
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by "Glavdal'figt" to plants in other parts of thb aeuntry despite the fact
Rhat such ordar3 co~;la b? completed mare yuiek ;v and cheaply by antarprieae
Sn Prmorakiy or Shabarovek Sraye. The Ministry oP the Maritime Bleat and
"Glavdal'flot^ must raGOnelder the problem of cooperatiea on repair of ships
of the Far East Steamship Lina and make the system mots effioiant.
i:REFiS A4d-~ RF1'AI128,' HANDLE Fi?nI(JiT -- IfrasncyeLnatoya, No 14, 18 Jan 49
Qreva on.shlps of the. Par Fast State inarltima Steamship Dina are ra-.
pairing their owm ships, some of which were scheduled to ba repaired by the
ship=repair p18nt. A number of ships have thereby avoided ma,o
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pa
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the 'plant later, The orewa have completed 16 million rubles worth of repeat
gobs in
ye
Or
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one
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ewe of the il
ich, Klara Tsetkin, and 3uchan were par-
tiouleriy euaaeeeful in this work. To speed the handling of their ehipey'
craws are also loading and unloading and haws already handled 1T0, tone of
freight. T$e orevs of the. Sre.enogvardaseta and Snikhozntk nrvnninr?.3 ?~e
L71QE LA03 ]1Q JAInIARY -- Kxaenoye Znaatga, No 21, 27 Jaa 49
The Direatore of the Far Eaet State Maxltlma Steamship Lina, after
fail'ng to oomplate the 1948?plan far haull~ag
promised to put
the work o
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n
the;fleat on a,regulas eohadule. The raeuTtO of work in January show that
this promise ,ie sot being kept, Thee Line cuntiaued to aperate iaeffioient]y
during the first 20 daye,gf,Jaena.ary, a leho?Rh hurtled and boniheed effort;to
1lnlfill the month plan were made in the last 10 days. In the first 10 deye of
Jamxary the Line attained 10 percent of the month~e quota in tone and 9.U aer-
aent in toe-miles. After 20 days, the results wars 44.1 paroent in tone ?s~
'-4.2 percent is ton-miles.
The eohedula for departures ie sot being mslataiaed. Only 7.7 paroaat of
the ships departed sooordiog to soh-lule, 15.4 peraent after a delay of 3 days,
19.2 paroent after s iele~y of 6 days, and the departure of the remaining ships
has been oarried over to the last l0 days of the month. Tha eteameaip
$raanogvardeyeta, which arrived is P],auivoetok on 13 January, took oa fuel in
3 +aye at the port but was not loaded until 20 January beoauee of s 96-hour
wait for a loading dock. The departure of the steamship Biehinev vas held up
beoauee of delay in repairs et the Yladivoetok Ship-Repair Plant.
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