DSU REGULATION OF IMPORT AND EXPORT SHIPMENTS (DEUTSCHE UNSCHLAGSBETRIEBSSENTRALE)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006400130007-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 26, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL I ILLIGEIiCE AGEI CI
INFORMATION REPORT
S-E-C-R-E-T
COUNTRY
.Fact Germany/Poland
M- Regulation of Import
and-Export Shipments ( Deutsche
Uasohlagsbspriebsssntrale)
REPORT
26 April 1955
RD
This material contains Information affecting the
National Defense of ",,United States within the
of the 'siona1e Laws, Tide 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and tM transmission or revel-
ation of which In any manner to an unauthorized
person Is prohibited by law.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The DSU2handles 90% of its west-bound experts through the be inland- -
waterways to Hamburg. When Bast German cargo arrives in Hamburg,
it is handled by the firm Hamburger Transport Kontor. The owner of
this firm 1s w. Ertel. The Berlin representative for DSU export
shipments is the firm Schiller and Koch.
2. Cargo shipped by the DSU over the Elbe to Magdeburg-Hamburg for
the month of January 1955 was approximate1 130,000 tons. The ma or
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The DSU handles the majority of its imports through Szczecin
(Stettin), Poland, and the Oder inland iaterway. There are exceptions
to this procedure in the case of East German exports to the USSR.
Export shipments to the USSR have all been handled through Szczecin
in the past. Thin procedure may vary in the future if the USSR releases
its hold on certain port facilities in Szczecin. Rumors in DSU circles
indicate that the USSR may turn over the entire upper Szczecin port
to the toles
4, The Oder is frozen to a depth of two meters and there are no indica-
tions that any large traffic shipments can be expected during.
February 1955? On 3 February 1955 one tug and four barges arrived
in Berlin with a cargo of coal from Zehdeniok. The DSU doubts that
it can keep the route from Zehdenioh to Berlin open.
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