ECONOMIC - RIVER AND MARITIME TRANSPORT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 331
• Publication Date: July 15, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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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.
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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..
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