SOVIET MARITIME FLEET'S PLAN LAGS; NEW SHIPBUILDING NOTES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 267
• Publication Date: February 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Transportation, Maritime fleet
HOW
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers, biweekly and monthly periodicals DATE DIST. 4.FW1952
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PUBLISHED USSR; Germany
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PUBLISHED 20 Aug - Nov 1951
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.OVIET MA OIT'jC PLFOT'S PLtiN LA? S;
NEW SIIIPBUILOING N7I'E'
THIRD QUARTER PLAN LAGS -- Moscow, Morskoy Flot, 20 Aug 51
Many ship lines of the Ministry of Maritime Fleet are lagging behind plan.
In the third quarter 1951, these ship lines are not only failing to make up for de-
ficiencies of the earlier quarters but, are lagging ev?,n arti:l:r behind plan.
The main reasons for these c'eficiencies are poor operational planning and ex-
cessive idle time of ships.
In the Northern Maritime Ship Line, ships were idle Lore than 14,000 hours
in 6 months of 1951 and nearly 1,000 hours were lost because ships did not
operate on schedule. The amount. of idle time in the ship line is increasing
month by month and schedules are consistently broken.
EXCEr7L SHIP LAYOVER NOOKS -- Moscow, Morskoy Flot, 1 Sep 51
Extended ship layover in ports and shipyards is one of the principal causes
of navigation plan failures; for that reason, much attention should be given to
minimizing this unproductive idle time. However, in some of the river basins,
this problem is not given sufficient attention. Ship layover is even increasing
over 1950 in some of the ship lines, in the f+rst 10 days of August 1950, total
ship layover time In the F:orthcrn Maritime Ship Lina was 289 hours, in the samm
period of 1951, 387 hours, From 10 to 20 August 1951, idle time of ships in this
ship line reached 2,4L'2 hours.. Most of the responsibility for this excessive
id_e time falls on the management of the ship line.
Ships of the Northern Mari'?ime Ship Line lost 76 hours in 20 days of August
waiting for dispatching orders. Under such circumstances, it was impossible for
the operational services to run ship traffic on strict schedules and frequently
ships would enter ports in large groups where they would have to wait their turn
to be processed. Four hundred twenty-six hours were lost in 20 days of August
because of ships arriving in ports off schedule.
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Ship layover time in the Caspian Fleet is also far to. great. In 20 days
of August, the ships accumulated 1,707 idle hours. As in the Northern Ship Line,
The Caspian ships arrived in ports in large groups and thus had long layovers
before they could be processed.
The Heydtanker Ship Line at Astrakhan' has delayed petroleum tranrshipments
at Astrakhan' because of poor scheduling and unnecessary ship layover. Although
the ship line blames the limited capacity of the Astrakhan' facilities, inade-
quate dispatching and control by the operational services is responsible for this
delay.
Ship layover time in the Azov Ship Line has almost doubled. Most of this
time is lost in ports, particularly the Zhdanov port. ?hip layover is also on
the increase in the ports of Yalta and Poti.
Most of the responsibility for the time lost in layover falls on the dis-
patching organizations of the ship lines; however, fucling delays, red tape, and
other deficiencies add to this deficiency.
FUEL SAVINGS NOTED -- Moscow, Moskoy Flot, No 11, Nov 51
In 1950, the transport fleet of the Ministry of Maritime Fleet completed
its hauling plan 105.5 percent and consumed 1.67 percent less fuel than the plan
called for. If an allowance is made for the 5.5-percent increase in tt.e hauling
plan, then the fuel saving amounted to 7.2 percent, the equivalent of 19.7 mil-
lion rubles. This economy of fuel and lubricants enabled the fleet to haul more
than 900,000 tons of freight in 1950. In addition, the 1950 hauling plan ex-
ceeded the 1946 plan by 34.5 percent while in 1950, 6,000 tons less fuel was
consumed than in 1946. ,
Altogether, durirg the postwar Five-Year Plan, the maritime fleet saved
843,300 tons of standard fuel costing 270 million rubles.
REPORTS NEW SHIPBUILDING -- Hamburg, Hamburger Hafen-Nachrichten, 1 Oct 51
According to reliable sources, the Soviet maritime fleet will be expanded
by 2.24 million gross tons in 1951 ompared with 2.13 million in 1950. May
orders have been given to Western countries, while the Baltic and Soviet Zone
shipyards are busy building warships.
CASPIAN FLEET GETS NEW J]ESEL-ELECTRIC TAN}Q R -- Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy,
16 Sep 51
The tanker General Azi Aslanov, now operating in the Caspian Sea, is the
first of Soviet maritime diesel-electric ships. All operations of the ship are
electrified and automatic.
The ships crew has carried tens of thousands of tons of petroleum products
above plan.
Moscow, Morskiy Flot, 25 Aug 51
The diesel-electric tanker General Azi Aslanov was designed by the Central
Planning and Designing Bureau No 1 of the Ministry of Maritime Fleet and was
built by the "Krasnoye Sormovo" Plant.
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Ilagy Leningrad and Kharkov plants took part in producing the many machines used
on the ship. As all previous tankers had direct diesel drive, this tanker will
$erve as a prototype for future diesel-electric machines.
The Main engines'of the tanker are 13.4 times lighter and correspondingly*
setaller'tbaa diesels of previous tankers, although they are even more powerful.
MIS tankers in diesels turn up more than 700 revolutions per minute, on the
regular.diesela, the engines turn up only 100-110 revolutions per minute. Be-
cause engines of the General Az1 Aslanov run so fast and because its grin
diesels are broken down into several unite (there are two units for each screw),
the weight and size of the engines is reduced considerably.
Diesel tankers spend an average of 80 hours in repair plants for repair of
.be fain diesels. Because of the small size and weight of the diesels on the
diesel-electric ship, this time 1s cut considerably, and the four engines can
actually be replaced in 36 hours while the ship is being loaded.
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