ECONOMIC - RIVER AND MARITIME TRANSPORT

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CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240331-7
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331
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July 15, 1949
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/07/07: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240331-7 - 7. COUNTRY SUBJECT CLASSIFI-''TION CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE A NCY REPORT INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR HAUIO t9KUM 3 Si S CD USSR Economic . P ver aid L~;^~L.mn tra per'. HOW PUBLISHED Dni17 neryra prr pa WHERE PUBLISHED UPS? DATE PUBLISHED :9 "lay - 9 Jun iGa9 LANGUAGE Rulaeian }NIT DOOUIVIRT CONTAINS IN,000NTAI INRORUT:ON IFYicn NR TOE NAnoNAL DA[NS! 01 TN[ ONIYSD FT_ YllNlp TN! RSANIND OF [SNIONAOf .ACT. RO V. D. P. II AND ll.I~ ANRRDLD ITS TRANSNILIION ON TNN RRV"LATION OP ITL CONTENTS IN ANY ^ A', TO AN A-OIIT.I051Ol0 ;911*" 1S IAO ."MO ST LAY. N&PRODUCTION Al THIN ??~NN IS INCNI SITID. `SOURCE :Nowpapere as Indioated.. DATE DIST. ~~~Jnl '.949 NO. OF PAGES SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION Vo-a.GA AND VLADIVIHTOS SHIPPING CRITICIZED VOLGA NOT - JLLT 1n1= -- Gudok, No 73, 19 Jun 49 .he possibilities for transport on the Volga ?fiver are not fully exploited. Draping 1948, freight turnover, aspeoially of timber, wheat, natal, and machines, in the port of Gorlkiy was considerably smaller than in other years. A be quantity of all types of freight which ooul3 have been tranapor"Lled on thb Volga and its tributaries was shipped by rail, and operating condition in the Go' kiy railroad function here become very com- plicated. During 1948 it was planned to transfer to river transport st Gor'kiy 70 percent of the timber being shipped from points on the Gor'kiy and Pechora railroad systems to the Donate Basin and the Caucasus, and a special transshipment base was not up. However, not one carload was transferred. Beginning in April 1949, a considerable amount of lumber, mine shore timber, and railroad ties was to be transferred at Ger'kiy from railroad to river transport, but only one tenth of 'Lis plan has been carried out. Transport- ing timber by railroad to points in the south is 7 - 9 times more expensive than transportation by river. The Balairhna Paper Combine, on the Volga, has its own wharf, but all of its production is sent to Moscow by rail, whereas shippl.ag it via the Volga and the Canal imeni Moskva would free 2,000 freight cars during the navigation season. Denting firewood to Moscow via the Volga and Unzha rivers would shorten the distance traveled. by 445 kileeeters? The Gor'kiy Automobile Plant aeons reluctant to ship its products by water. It ships spare parts to U1'yanovsk by railroaA, a trip which taken 8 days and covers 336 kilcmetere, whereas by voter the r)7-k1lcmot3r trip takes only 3 days. Shipping _flour, silica trick, and glans by the Volga would release hundreds of freight ;err on the Cor',kiy system and save Ilk - 16 million rubles during the naRigation_season. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/07/07: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240331-7 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/07/07: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240331-7 7 TLAD11'G5rroK POR"C r !'-F, 21 May 49 to sea on,thethx1 day iratead of later than the fifth. day, a~ bed been ea that on return :rom one of the three voyages he, has made this year the ship was loaded and unload.-d,in hail the oaual time. The ship put A. Kobeta, ?iptain of the etoamah-p Alesoandr Nevekiy, reporting on the high-speed 'hi:p-handling methods employed at the port of Vladivostok, met the hedule for ahigment 'o" ::s=a to the port. Railroad. wor'kerti, perti erly.the rger,4hel~d Stetiou, ha re not onaiatently road and por uo_^xe,a ns"e :egged.w.;elnl t e plan in .some respects. In the f i?Let lasz".,es-, port xorker+e increased the idle time of rare by 5 pci,ent above pier, instead at' caving time, buL in the first part of May ;e'overed *.hie, lcsr ant der eased idleness of carte in loading and ut,.. loading by percea more than plnnned., In the liret pact of May, port workers eizeeded ?..he :.oading em unloading plan by 5 percent, but later in the month rad?Li ed this a.nievemenf`. becauee of the ,a k of empty care. by 4 per lent more *hen plan to fu1 ill the State plan for loading and unloading t~y lO; por^.en S_r.,o he beginning of the year, both roil- At the togiiining of 19 9 ~_ed. ~a oic ; ~r workers entered into aompetitioci wi:n eiro.ad vorxore of the P:iaorekiy railroad System and pledged to dp~^reage ,h: id.e lme ",f freight tars in handling operations On other trips to 7ladivestok, the ship often failed to find, such organized, high-speed loading and unloading. Pel"ys occur in particular near the end of the month when all facilities cry dirooted toward com- pletion of the month plan, end the prevailing heats results in dieordor. U89URI RIVZR TPAN,9POR"' ORGARIZED -- Krasnoye Lna>ayn. No 116, 19 Witt' 49 A base of the Prinorekiy Bray Administra- ion of the Utilization of Small Rivers for Transpsrt has been organized at the settlement of Kirovmkiy. Tto base has been eupplied rith several "ktm asy" and four river cutters suitable for transport of passengers and freight. Ussuri River trnnopsrt will thus be maintained. as far as the Junction of the Uiakhe and Daubikhe rivers. A total of 80,000 rubles has been allocated to clearing and putting in the otmplest marking eyytem on the Ussuri channel. This is the first work done in organizing transport on Primerekiy Kray rivers. RIGA RIV P GET TRAZTSP01'T EQUIPJ4EN'1 -- Sovetskaya Latviya, No 135, 10 Jun 49 A new floating passenger dock has been built in the Liyelupe River near Tho Mayors Station. Thi?+ dor, equipped with waiting rooms and other cen- veniences for pe.esengers, will service passengers traveling between Riga and Vzmor'ye. he Aigt, AdndniatCea'tion oi" the Utilization of Small Rivers for Transport received two raw Diesel ships from Moscow. The ships can be used to haul freight and passengers, or ao a;:egboats,. One of the ships will be put into speration an the Venter Riper, M0a^..0.7-1T?A WA'Tl"P' T-ATE' 0P'36 Moskva, W o 141., 15 Jwi 49 River passenger servi.~e has opened between Moscow and Ufa, Ships will leave for U_s ewnzy 5 der;,, on the 5, 3.0*h, 15th, 20th, 25th, and 30th of each month, CASPI.& FLM RFPO4?.5 5,1' S. TLS Er??aa,saye Zvezde. No 138, 14 Jun 49 During the :or,';1:3 of lci+9, the Caspian Tanker Fleet saved 400 tou< of fu' ani g'i t t.3: ??,e '- ,' qo0 0 rabies of sae"-ngs.. - E N D Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/07/07: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240331-7