RIVER TRANSPORATATION REPORTS SUCCESS, COMPETES WITH RAILROADS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600260107-4
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 107
• Publication Date: October 17, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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! !! FL T T!"P?.+!lltl j T!: PL= - 40.a~ 4 Lot wV 18 !1 yThe TM34R river fleet bee exceeded t'a duly plan for freight transport in tons
and tun-kilcrosters. The traaapcrt plan was exceeded for grain, silt, coal, timber
in rafts a>ud on ships, and was not fulfilled for petroleum.
Cl with the same period of 1948, freight transport in duly 1949 increased
16 percent.
Vechnrnyaya Moskva, No 182, 2 Aug 49
The Noel river float completed the duly plan for tons awd tai.-kilometers,
as well as ior transport of petroleum, rafts, timber, mineral constt!p6%idli m'tteriall,
lA m1# AI-m c 4l. w 6..?6 ww =r. tiz_. oa..o _ _ _ +oo __. _ ~~ _
200,060 tons of freight above plan. ~.G ~ r.., ~~
I=CRRA RD VATER SHIPWWrS L~(D -- Recbncy 21r -ma-port, No 60, 2n, Jul 49
In a letter to the editor, G. Derevyanko, director of the Aytva Metallurgical
plant on the lama River, said that the plant sent all of Its goods by rail last
year. This year the plant has turned to river shipments as a supplementary fore of
tr nap+,rtatian. It boo already shipped 1,500 tons of metal by water during thw
months of the river shipping season.
Some clients object to having their orders shipped by water. The Oor'kiy Auto-
mobile Plant, fore s, warned that It would not pay for any metal shipped to it
by river transport. ovever, such plants are on tie decrease.
The above tolar received by the editors of Btnhnd ot demonetretee that
o. 2..+II. + e ae.gt we~- vuoia ofiva-vi Of vvtl more orders not Only Irk
those shipping freight but from those receiving freight. Mhny enterprises oategori-
cnll,w refute to aoaapt orders shipped by water bs,cause of the alleged slowness of
this ~Asansof transportatiat.. the new movinsent launched by the Volga Diesel shii
Tatariya?of attaining and exceeding speedsatai.ntained by railroad transport can do
much to expand river freight operations.
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SHU AC4 YID L(C.OWa' V!i SF -- 1arabnyy Floc, iic 180, 2 bug 49
The Diesel ship Litva recently carried a cargo a distance of 371 kilometers to
Kiev in 23 hours. This was the first time that a Diesel ship of the Verkhniy Dnepr
Fleet attained the speed of a locomotive.
RIYER HEATS REACK EAST -- Ondok, No 108, 9 Sep 49
The Arctic expedit1 taking river ships to the eastern river basins along the
than 6,000 kilaseterr of rivers, lakes, and seas during the journey. All ahipa have
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