ECONOMIC - FOREIGN TRADE, PORT CAPACITY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 800
• Publication Date: April 5, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Economic - Foreign trade, port capacity
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED Warsaw; Prague
DATE
PUBLISHED Jan, Feb 1949
LANGUAGE Po1'_eh, Czech
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Polish and z.eohos1ovak newspapers as indicated. (Information
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POLISH EXPORTS. IMPORTS LISTZD
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PORT OF SZCZECIN INCRRABHS VJI OF LOADINGS -- Rzeozpospolita, No 43,
13 Feb 49
were (in toot.): coal, 2,307,526; bunker coil, 14,905; coke, 22,570;
aodi-oy groups were represented. Among the exports were wood, grain, salt,
In the first months of 1948 when the plan estimated the Szczecin
port loadings for the year to be 2.5 million tone of goods, few people
believed it possible. It developed, hcvsver, that loadings greatly ex-
ceeded the plan. Although in the first part of 1948 the average monthly
loadings were approxiarlely 100,000 tons, in the last quarter of 1948 the
average monthly figure increased to 330,000 tone.
In 1946 the turnover at the Pcrt of Szczecin consisted entirely of
e:.T1vr44 and +uaumted ,o h4,00( tons; in 1947 total turnover was 706,685
tons, of which 112,093 were ixp:rrts, 577,139 exports, and 17,!53 transit;
in 1948 total turnover increased to 3,111 414 tons of whisk 332,533
-vets imports, 2,531,410 exports, and 247,471 transit.
Thep figures show an unintarrapted 'nervase in goods turnover
resulting tram greater efficiency in handling Vaeft abort by the installa-
tion of new equipent.
Szczecin is booming important in ocean traffic. In 1948, trade con-
tacts smbrar-d 18 countries, in 1947, only eight. About 30 important em-
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Imports show a steady increase. The moot important item is ore im-
,ported for the Polish and Czechoslovak metallurgical industry. Czecho-
slovakia used 200,000 tons.
The more important import items are (in tons): iron ore, 236,182;
Thomas process iron, 27,965; pyrites, 9,383; herring, 14,070; cellulose,
15,249; cotton, 6,602; and waste paper, 3,885.
Goods in transit also showed an unusual increase:
4,809 tons 231,996 tons
Outgoing 12,644 15,476 17, 5533 tons 247,41-2- tons
The above consists of Commodities traded between the Scandinavian
countries and Czechoslovakia, Rungs*, '>, and Bulgaria.
JANUARY SHIPPING NEWS -- Rzeczpoepolita; No 38, 8 Fab 49
According to preliminary statistics of the Gdansk maritime OOff.ce,
the January freight loadings In the Gdansk-Gdynia Group totaled 1,098,707
tons, Including 989,584 tons of exports and 109,123 tons of imports. The
biggest export Item was 870;940 tons of coal. Freight cleared through
Gdynia amounted to 439,610 tons; 529,974 tons were Cleared through Gdansk.
Imports through Gdynia amounted -"uo 66,411 tons; through Gdansk, 42,712
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Shipping in Szczecin showed 370 arrivals and 366 departures. Total
freight handled was 300,000 tone, three times the turnover in January
3.948. Coal, ore, epctite, lumber, and scrap Iron are some of the important
items which cleared through Szczecin.
IMPORTS FOR TIE BUILDING INDUSTRY -- Rzeczpospolita, No 20, 21 Jan 49
Fifteen million dollars of machinery and equipment for the building
industry have been ordered from the soviet Union. Deliveries are to be
made between 1949 and 1952. This order Includes heavy machinery each to
excavatorG, building cranes, 5elt conveyers, automatic dump trucks, heaters,
air-comprossing pumps, drilling machines, and pumps.
The o.ieo to Freioa, amounting tj 456 million francs, consisted
chiefly of cranes, excavators, central heating equipment, grates, etc.
Orders have also been sent to England, Czechoslovakia, and Sweden.
FIRE EQUIPMENT FROM SWEU -- Rzeczpoepolita, No 32, 2 Feb 49
In the last few days Szezeain received two pieces of motorized
fire-fighting equipment to be used by the port?a fire dspartsient. This
is the first shinmsnt on mr nra. for f!re-fi nr+. ?.+...-.~
with Sweden by the Ministry of Navigation.
POLISH SALT FOB EXPORT -- Svobodne S1oro [Csec1 ] No 26, 1 Feb k'
Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark are the chief con-
sumers of Puliah sa.t exports. The most modern rc_: salt mine In Poland,
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nr + of which is used as table ault. The Inovroclaa salt works, which
evaporates 40,000 tons of salt annually from saline mineral water, ships
salt mainly to Scandinavia for use in salting fish and for making salt
butter. The Wielloxha mine produces 180,000 tons of gray rock salt per
year, some of which is used for food, but most of it Is used in Industry
and agriculture. evaporated table salt of the finest quality also is
produced there. The salt mine at Boobnia now produces only gray salt for
use in agriculture and the chemical industry.
The production and sale cf salt in Poland are in the hands of the
Polish Salt Monopoly state enterprise.
Total salt production in Poland is over 400 tons per year. It.
1947, 33,000 tone were exported, of which more than half vent to Cze-
choslovakia, while 29,000 tonsrf the still larger amount exported in 1948
went to Czechoslovakia. Prewar export was only 15,000 tons per year.
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POULTRY EXPORTS -- Rzootpospolita, No 44, 14 Fab 49
In 1948, Poland 'exported 5,200 tons of frozen poultry worth 7
million dollars, an Increase over 1947, when exports amounted to 831,
081,kflogramsnorth 1,035,370 dollars.
According to th" 1949 plan, exports should reach 10,000 tons, or
,twice, as much, as is 1948,
TRADE AO IT WITH ALBANIA -- Rzsozpospolita, No '12, 23 Jan f'9
A Polish-Aibsaian trade astyvient was signed on 22 Jan cry 1949.
Poland will export railroad rolling stock, vessels for coastal naviga-
tion, textiles, aet+al products, and electroteohnioal asoh.'.nss and equip.
men In exchange, Albania will send Poland copper, pyrites, ooito't,
pe.role:?, tobacco, and. other articles. Value of total goods to be
exohanged, is 4 million dollars.
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