NEW SHIPYARD, PORT FACILITIES IN PROGRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600400113-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: June 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD P:O.
CLASSIFICATION GONFIDENPIAL CQ~f ID~N~'I~
COUNTRY Y~:gos'avia
SUBJECT Economic - Shipysrds, hsrbors
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Yugoslavia
DATE
PUBLISHED '- ? 26 May 1951
LANGUAGE
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NEB 5k'L':r_A.t+s~'~-POi?y E'ACZLITIES iN PROGRESS
SHE-PYARD T_+PING BLT.l;~' IN F!~LA _~??? Pelgrads, Borba, I Msy 51
Pula, ?0 April -- A aa~!' r??~tpy?rd, ~'uich will be tha~ largest and most mod-
ern in iugo5lavia, =a be'_ng b~.iiit on V.:janik Isian3 in Fula Bay, on the site
of the former Austrian shipyard vbict?Tras destroyed during the war. The steel
fr?aa!ework of the shi.pa ++'ill bE built on the island, while equipment and machin-
ery will. be made 6n ?he mainlend~
A ~rerkssop and ccc:t:e*.F '+~a~Ps i~~.~e heady been completed, and assembltijr of
the fyrst s~{pa ass bFg~.: a. ;a~~i.+.:re chap hes also been built, and a plate
mill ar.d 1.TJ~z1:E.r-?3r",~;r.g ~-?":1. a:re :,Eder ,:I:,net;.~iction on the ruins of the prewar
arsenal.
A floating dock has been ref'?~?ted, and snips are a ready being repaired on
'_it. A third drydock, which bas beta ly9.ng under water for more than. 20 years,
>=as already been refuted, and ships are being repaired to 3t. Six modern
passenger 3hipa of the Opatija ::l..:sa, 50 maters long and wig a speed of 15
knots. and a fleeting dock are oeing bul.li ~.n this drydock.
At at*_?.er places on t'ne ccaat,, 2u0W and 600-L?oraepower tugboats are being
built.
FLCAT',NG DOCK RETLTRIY~ TO TT.~O Ss17F'Y'AFfD -~ Ljubljana, Sloveneki Porocevalec,
26 May 51
A floating dock with a capacity of 1,600 tons wee recently returned to the
Tito Shipyard in Iiral.jevica from Pala. In May 1941, the Italians seized this
deck and hauled it to Rijeka, where they used it for military purposes until "
April 1945. The partisans sank the dock tc prevent its destruction by the Ger-
mans in 1945? The dock vre,s raised in 1949 from 20 meters of water and repaired
and has now been returned to the shipyard from which it was taken. This docY.
k311 enable repairs to be done on ships of up to 1 000 tons.
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12 ELECTRIC CRANES TO_B3 OBTAINED -- I?,~ubl,jana, Slovenski Porocevalec, 23 ~Y 51
The river harbors in Caprag, Sisak, Zabrez,je, Vukovar,.Smederevo, and Brcko
will receive 12 New electric cranes. Some harbors will be equipped with grain
elevators and other modern installations for loading and unloading.
The harbor in Ceprag, near Sisak, which will be principally engaged in
shipping Bosnian wood and pyrites Prom Ma~danpek Yor further'tranashipment
to Rijeka, will be one of the most modern harbors in Yugoslavia. It will be
equipped to handle 180,000 tons oY goods. annually. This harbor will receive
two cranes.
BUILD INSTITIPPE FOR RESEARCH ON SHIPS -- Zagreb,_ Narodni Liat, 26 May 51
Construction on the buildings Yor the Institute Yor Experimental Research
on Ships ~oegan at, the beginning of May. The first building nos going up will
contain the directorate, laboratories, drafting rooms, library, reading room,
lecture hall, etc.
The institute will have several pools in which models oY future ships will
ue tested< One pool will be 300 meters long, 12 meters wide, and 6 meterE
deep. Another pool will be circular in shape, with a 28-meter circumference.
CONFIDENTIAL
Ya~FID~~i~'~~i~.
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