DESCRIPTION OF HARBOR FACILITIES T'ANGKU

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLKIAEENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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a "T'angku >r-rbor is west of Pohai, 160 kilometers from Peking and 45 kilo-
meters from Tientsin. The harbor was started in 1939 by the >xlassiataag
and was only one-half completed at the time of the Jepamese m render. 25X1
when the Kuomintang bandits fled, they took all the ships in the harbor
to Shanghai and later to Taiwan. The harbor was oaWleted in 1952 with
the valuable aid of the Soviet experts and the enthusiasa and the politi-
cal consciousness of the workers. Although the harbor was eagleted in
1952, the Castemists are constantly improving the port in line with the
policy of profiting from advanced Soviet technique and experimaoe.
b. "All of the pilots in the port are now Chinese. The port baodles an annual
export of approximately 20,000,000 tons. Ships of 10,000 tons can enter the
harbor and berth at the two piers. Four ships can dock and unload at the
sate time. There are 30 cranes, each hauling 100 tons at a time. The depth
of the central channel is 9 meters. The T'angku larbor handles the trade of
China with the Soviet ion the Poomle's Democracies of Poland. Czecho-
slovakia,, and Cie
c. "The workers and staff have a hospital of their own, a night school, and a
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formed by the artifieal harbor and the river. The roadway was wide enough for
the passage of one 6 x 6 truck, and a pedestrian lane was also built on the
canal side of the lock. The lock located on the river side was not so wide as
the lock on the harbor side. The canal was about 25 meters wide.
3. The operation of the lock Electrical cables from the 25X1
generator house were connected to the steel locks which were pulled into the
sluices on mainland side. The locks we sctrical-Ly operated from the c-The
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locks had to be operated alternately o r to control the water level. 4. There were two guards patrolling the locks, one was a security policeman with a
red arm band, and the other was a naval enlisted man. The security policeman 25X1
was armed with an old Japanese rifle, and the navy man had a Soviet-type sub-
machine gun.
5. There were few installations on the western end of the new harbor. On the mainland
side of the locks were the temporary barracks, the lock control tower, the genera-
tor housing, and the administration building. On the island were a radio station,
a pilot house, a signal and light station, and the ship control tower. A con-
amount of construction appeared to be under way on the island.
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6.
dockyard was only for the repair and the building of inland vessels tugs, and
for the scrapping, painting, and refitting of vessels. There were three graving
docks, each separated by breakers. There were four ships under repair. Next
to the control tower and accessible to the dockyard was a yard filled with steel
plates,
shedsj two "lifters" were a outtsiddeeuse with machine
and bars, "baulers"gi.n the cabloso
7. The area extending from the administration building to the railroads and the main
gate consisted of fill and reclaimed land. Sand was spread over cost of the area.
8. The depth alongside the wharf could not be ascertained, but the water was very
muddy. Alongside the wharf were two warehouses and another two behind them.
The warehouses were constructed of wood and sheet structures. The warehouses
were about 5 meters in height, 10 meters in width, and 60 meters in length. The
warehouses fronting the wharf were about 10 meters from the edge of the siding,
and ship winches were able to work cargo directly to the door of the warehouses.
The southern warehouse fronting the wharf had a loudspeaker, a large bulletin
board, and a poster on its southern wall. Ems were floodlights on the corners
of the warehouses facing the wharf. The warehouses did not have a flooring;
wooden ties separated the stock from the ground.
9. In between the four warehouses was a yard where stocks of coal, iron bars, tubes,
rails, and pig iron were stacked. The warehouse area had a rail network. Three
coal cars and two tank cars were seen.
10. The port administration had a staff of about 800 composed of administrative, har-
bor, dockyard, warehouse, maintenance, and ship-control personnel. The railway
personnel were attached to the railway bureau. The construction laborers and port
coolies were employed on a temporary basis.
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