YUGOSLAV MERCHANT MARINE DATA 1950 NAVIGATION BUDGET

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• Publication Date: August 8, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Transportation - Water
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Split
DATE
PUBLISHED Jan, Mar 1950
LANGUAGE Serbo-Croatian
THIS COCONUT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES NITNIN TNI RIAMIN! OF IIFIONANI ACT 90
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INFORMATION 1950
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YUGOSLAV MERCHANT MARINE DATA
Pomorstvo, No 1, Jan 50
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In his 1950 budget speech, Vicko Krstulovic, Minister of Navigation, stated
that the Yugoslav navigation budget for 1950 is 13.7 percent larger than in 1949.
Eight percent of-the budget will be for the social standard and 92 percent for
capital construction.
Under the budget for capital construction, the merchant marine will get
64.5 percent, ports 25 percent, and construction enterprises, including salvage
enterprises, 10.5 percent of the budget.
In the 1950 investment plan, 22.4 percent is slated for construction pro-
jects, of which one fourth is for social standard projects.
The 1950 plan also calls for the speedyreconst;uction of destroyed and
completion of unfinished wharfs, the mechanization of ports (especially in Rijeka),
and the intensified construction of social standard projects, especially in Rijeka,
Split, and Kardeljevo.
Compared to the realized 1949 plan, the 1950 plan shows an increase of 45
percent in ton-miles, 24 percent in tons of freight shipped, 38.8 percent in the
amount of freight loaded and-unloaded in ports, 60 percent in navigation construc-
tion, and 10 percent in the dredging of ports and sea lanes.
In 1949,,''s compared' to 19485'28'.5 percent mote freight was shipped, or..
45.6 percent more according to?ton-miles, and.7 percent more . passengers,! were
transported, or?19,.percent more according."to passenger-miles. For the same period
the,increaae-in the average carrying capacity' of ships was 10.8 percent.
In comparison with the 1951 plan, the 1950 plan represents only 51.2 per-
cent of the freight tonnage to be transported, or 36.2 percent according to.ton-
miles, 39 percent of the gross registered tons, and 43 percent of the total engine
power. I
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The total turnover of freight in domestic ports realized in 1949 was 66 per-
cent more than in 1947 excluding newly liberated areas and 18 percent greater-than.
in 1948. The total turnover of passengers-in 1949 increased 16.2 percent over 1947.
The-1.949 capital construction plan for the merchant marine was realized by 67
percent. During 1949, the Zagreb, the Skoplje, and the Sarajevo were added?tothe
Yugoslav merchant marine.
The Zagreb is 101.8 meters long, 14 meters wide and 8.3 meters high up
the main deck. It has a displacement of 6,100 tons a capacity of 3,100 gross reg-
istered tons, a carrying capacity of 3,904 toi,e, a 2,275-horsepower engine, and a
speed of 14 knots. It can accommodate 17 passengers. The Hrvatska was completely
repaired in 1949 in a Yugoslav shipyard, while the Srbija was under construction
in the Netherlands. The total tonnage of all these ships is 23,197 gross registered
tons.
In 1949, 613 meters of new wharfs were constructed. Of these, 47 percent
were constructed in Rijeka alone. In that centThus far, i 674 percent of the of
1947 by 21 percent and that of 1948 by 13 p
Five Year Plan for wharf construction has been completed.
TURNOVER OF SHIPS FREIGHT, AND PASSENGERS IN YUGOSLAV PORTS
The following table shows the postwar increase in ship, freight, and pas-
senger traffic in Yugoslav ports as compared to 1939.(1939 equals 100):
1946 19+7 1948 19+9
Ships 107 182 .221 116
Freight 129 150 212 252
Passengers 154 253 343 274
Statistics for 1939, 1946, 1947, and 1948 refer to the turnover in 292 ports,
and those for 1949 only 92 ports.
The following table shows the increase in the number of ships docking and
the amount freight and passengers loaded and unloaded in principal Yugoslav ports
after the war (1939 equals 100):
1946 1947 1948 1949
Rijeka
Ships 154 139 160 162
Freight 41 64 109 143
Passengers 109 182 288 447
Sibenik
Ships 48 97 87 .88
Freight 86 65 75 136
Passengers 142' 195 191 184
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,R, UP 1J J. M*1Iyb,
1946
1947
1948
1949
split
Ships
71
156
142
102
Freight
118
113
137
65
Passengers
164
201
263
246
Ploce fK-ardeljev7
Ships
100
156
129
93
Freight
100
94
105
94
Passengers
100
116
115
138
Dubrovnik
Ships
61
74
56
65
Freight
61
39
66
70
passengers
88
130
147
144
Data for Rijeka include the entire Rijeka-Susak harbor.
According to the table, the 1949 turnover in Split seems smaller than in
previous years.- This is because the data up to 1949 include data on Split and
the Vranje Basin, while the 1949 data include only data on Split Harbor and North
Harbor.
.Traffic data.for Dubrovnik include Dubrovnik I and II (Gruz); 1949 data
apply only for Dubrovnik II.
NEW GRAIN ELEVATOR FOR RIJEKA
In the beginning of February, a new grain elevator, with a capacity of_9,000
tons, was put into service in Rijeka harbor. The grain elevator is equipped with
three. elevators, each of which has a capacity'of 80 tons per hour.
The elevators are driven by 39 electric motors. A transformer station of
1,800 kilovolt amperes will furnish power to the grain elevator and to the elec-
tric motors of the 5-ton cranes on the Belgrade and Vladimir Nazor wharfs.
SHIPYARD CONSTRUCTS NEW TUG
The "3 Maj" Shipyard recently constructed the tug Proleter. After the Udar-
nik and the Borac, this is the third tug constructed in domestic shipyards. The
Proleter, which has a 600-horsepower engine, has been assigned to the "Brodospas"
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