ECONOMICS - RIVER TRANSPORT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240599-1
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 599
• Publication Date: July 26, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY SUBJECT Economics River transport
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5'UBLISHED 11 May ?- 21 Jim 1949
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RIVER-FLEW OPERATION CRITICTIJM
4)B' RIV FLE LAGS IN $EAEON START -- Si,vetakayA S1i.r', vo 95, 15 may 49
Daring the current navigation season, the Ob' River Fleet is scheduled to
haul 100,003 tons of freight above plan. Present operations indicate, hovers-,
that the steamship line in not meeting its echadules. In 1948, the line and
its chief, Timofeyev, were criticized for the poor operation of its passenger
service, and were ordered by the Ministry of the River Fleet to improve
passenger transport. At least 51J percent of the passenger ships are still not
operating on schedule. Almost the entire passenger fleet has be. vied
to haul cargoes for the spring cowing cr.zroaiga alftcr.A, t?:e : ' "een
provided with a runber of Taut Lieaai card^, eniys auf:". 1eSxi br, ct these
needs.
Tha tug fleet has also been operating unsatisfactorily, which particularly
affects the transport of timber. Conditions in the lower stretches of the
atea hip 11es's routes ore part'7slarly poor. ifan:iling of barges takes frn
8 to 10 days instead of the standard 2 days at the floating docks in Erasnyy
Tar. Polavis'''za, Uet'-Chulym, Zhigalevo, Shobuchiy We, and Novo-Yugino.
Timber workers are organized in only oue shift and nearly 'me half of the
docks are not being need. Loading at "Zagotzerno" wharves is ertrenely
slow, an it was in 1948.
COAL 1DVEM IT TBROUGH ROSTO7 BIN! D -- P:-avda, No 170, 19 Jun 49
In a letter to Pravda, a group of workers at the river port of Rostov
oowplain that their task of transferring coal seat by river frog the mines
of the 8rasnodonets Mne Administration to the railroad for shipment to
Brasnodar firay, Stavropol' Bray, and other areas of the North Caucasus is
being hindered by the failure of the North Caucasus Railroad System to furnish
a sufficient number of railroad cars.
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The Moekova-Oka, Pechora, Don, Vyatka, Northwestern, Verkhne-Irtyah,.Amur,
the East Siberian Steamship Fleet is fulfilling the plan for tons according to
schedule. The Yenisey Fleet is fulfilling its plan.
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end raft transporting ~ days behind. The Main Administration of oa ern
River Fleet operated ahead of schedule only for tons. The Main Administration
completed. The work of the river fleet as a vhole lagged li days, with wheat
and coal transporting one ,la;j behind schedule, timber and firewood transporting
in ships if days behind, transport of salt 2 days behind, and petroleum
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RIVER FLEETOP P.ATIONS LAG -- Rechney'.Transport, No 49, 21 Jun 49
As formerly, towing of rafts in the Northern and ;gams basins.lagged
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Siberia and the East with agricultural regions, have begun to operate. Meohani-
zation Is being extended in docks and port facilities.
During the past winter, repair workers carritid out twice as much capital
repair work on ships than in 1947 - 1949.
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the recent pledge of eastern river-fleet workers means that he wor er
the Irtysh, Oh', Angara, Selanga, Yeniaey, Am r, and Lena will complete the
Five-Year Plan in 4 years in rogard to freight hauling. Nonstop operation
of tho fleet is being adopted more exter.::vely in all eastern river basing.
Service for ships an route is being organized in Tara, Tobol'sk, YRniseysk,
Igarka, and other centers. New lines, using high-speed Diesel cargo ships,
arc bein opened and new passenger lines, connecting the river cities of
M. N. Chebotarev, Vice-Minister of the River Fleet USSR and chief of the
Main Administration of River Transport of the Eastern Regions, reports that
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STEAMSHIP LINE ANNOUNCES ROUTES -- Sov3tekcya Sibir', No 92, 11 May 49
The West Siberian Steamship Line srmov:c?s to all Novcsibirsk citizens thht
it has opened regular freight and passenger service on the -following routes.
Ncvosibirs's-Barnnul-Biyek, N voribirsk-r'u'men', Novosibirsk-Tceiek-AlekaKndrafo,
Novoeibirek-Tomek-Sargbeok, Nrnos.bir`sk -- Uizhno-Vartovakoye, Tomsk-
E'olpashevo, and Tamak-Tegu1'det (on the Chulym River). Local suburban
lines have been organized in Biyek, Barnaul, Novoeibirsk, Trimek, and lolpaehevo.
All ships are operated on schedules. Ships and docks are equipped with radic
facilities. Waiting rooms have information bureaus, storage rooms for band-
carried baggage, and rooms for mothers and children.
DON R!PJS.4 E REINFORCED -- Rechnoy Transport, No 49, 21 Jun 49
During the current navigation season the Don River Fleet is being reIufeaoed
by some 400-horsepower steamships (built in the "Leninakaya kuznitea"Plant),
propeller-driven steamships and self-propelled barges, and 20 non-power-driven
ships, of which some are tankers. The fleet is also getting two pump dredges
with a capacity of 150 cubic meters per hour.
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