MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON DANUBE SHIPPING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000400710008-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains iniormatioa asecting the Na-
tional Defeaso of the United Btatea, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Beetioaa 793 and 794, of the U.B. Coda, srs
amended. Its tranamiseioa or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of thin corm ld prohibited.
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3lCURITY INFORMATION
AustrialSatellite States
Miscellaneous Information an
Danube Shipping."
REPORT
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1 On 1 December the DDSG tii~ KRONSTADT had left Moldavia with four landed anal four
empty freight barges on her way to Vienna. The DD,SC tug VLADIVOSTOK p~,'si$ea: the
Iron Gate an 28 Navember~,. towing five loaded tank barges for Bratislava) and amour,
empty freight. barges.. Et~th tugs will proba~rly remain in Vienna saver the winter.
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2, At the. .Soviet dee
p-sea tank
barges: paled with. paraffin from the
Loba~z re neryr were, towed; a~ far a~ Kpluarorm by the -self-propelled Soviet
tanker Onega. The tankers were towed from Komarom to ,R.eni by the SDCP (Soviet
~an~tBe Shipping Agency) tug BAKIT.
The -~RT (Sovromtransport) skiipping agency has already drawn 25 tanker-loads of
oil from the Lobau refinery in excess of the 1852 contingent.
~.s being converted. into;, a sea?~g~aing tanker in the Korneubvxp "~'~F~~'~'da.
The tanker has the designation TINT II" and will be ~~unched soon.
On 21 November ~ sea-lig~terrs left the Korneuburg, shipyards
On 26 November ey left ViennEl far he USSR. towed by the SDC~P tug NOVGO~tOY~.
At the end. of November 1~52y two seaworthy mator~tugs were completed in the
KAmarno ~+'~~~,y&~dd~. O~echaslcrvaki~. A thixd tug is nearing completion and a.
f ot~xth wi11. be launched ~'~~twe~n 10 and 1~ December. All the tugs a~~e of the
same type. 'They have two enginE:~ of a ~?int capacity of 1,200 Austrian H.P.
3'h+ey Ta'11l be delivered tC) the UBSR~
At the erg,, of ~1'vvs~b~r 1g52y, a passenger vessel. fQr the USSR was completed in
the D'~u;da ppya~dAS,~ $ungary ~ T.he.. vessel }nag a copacity of 1x200 passengers an
w~.ll be used ~'or traffic on the Dn,~epr~~River.
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During the last weir, the. 4era~aris built a silk factory in Tats
.Hungary#. at river kmy 1'j~2. This: factory-now' produces chemieale
Thexe ie a strong emell of sulphazr in the axes. The factory ie
situated. Weer the bask of the I3enube ~ The factory building- which
has t~to atariee and cbi.mneye~, t~ceupies an area, of about 20 x 30
meters
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