ACTIVITY IN PORT OF WISMAR REFLECTS GROWTH OF TRADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600310220-2
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 220
• Publication Date: May 15, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIOENTiAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Soviet Zone Germany DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Economic - Foreign trade
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Berlin
DATE
PUBLISHED 4 Feb - 24 Mar 1950
LANGUAGE
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DATE DIST. May 1950
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
ACTIVITY IN PORT OF WISMAR
REFLECTS GROWTH OF TRADE
The increase in transshipments handled by the port of Wismar reflects
the growth of foreign trade in the German Democratic Republic. In January
and February, shipments of rubber were received from Great Britain, cocoa from
Holland, skins from Argentina, grain from the USSR, and superphosphe.tes from
the Benelux countries. Outgoing shipments consisted of potash and rock salt.
During the first half of March, Soviet vessels unloaded 5,600 tons of
grain and 500 tons of peroxide for the manufacture of welding electrodes,
while in January and February 28 ships from Holland and Belgium unloaded
32,000 tons of superphosphates and picked up an identical quantity of potash.
Moreover, 88,000 tons of potash were shipped to the US, Norway, and Finland.
The electrical and engineering plant of the Association of People-Owned
Enterprises in Chemnitz has received an order for 34,000 dollars' worth of
electrical switchboards for shipment to Czechoslovakia.
The Ankerglas glass plant in Bernsdorf, Hoverswerda District, Sachsen, has
received export orders amounting to 760,000 Deutsche marks, for shipments to
England, Italy, France, Holland, and Switzerland.
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