EXPANSION OF EAST GERMAN PORTS TO OVERSEAS HARBOR SIZE

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• Publication Date: August 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
a. The -First preliminary project provides for the construction of a
harbor located north of Grossen-Klein. The approach channel is
ache uled to be 80 meters wide, and provide aoceos to the largest
type of overseas ships. ten amount of 80,000,0001is provided for the
curly installations and 18,000,000 for railroad tracks. The total?axnount
v,auid, be 468,000,000. The first period of construction is fixed at-
and ;Years and the second period at 4 years.
b. The second project provides for harbor installations south of Grosses-Klein,
also with a chagnel width of 80 meters, and quay installations for O0,000,000
atc 18,000,000/ aallrosd installations, amounting to a tctal sun of 532,000,000.
The :drat building period is fixed at 7 years, the second building pe-r'od at
five years.
c. The third project provides the construction of a harbor at Scbmarl.
The channel width is scheduled to be 150 meters, quay plants are provided
for 82,000,000, railroad installations for 20,000,0C0 and .1-total
expenditure would amount to 720,000,000. The first period of construction was
to be 8 years and the second period of construction 5 years.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT
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DATE OF
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conce .:'xlg the expansion ofEast German -p rests to overseas harbors.'
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1. The Cabinet Council is present discussing; three preliminar,? projects
Expansion of East Germw-i Ports to Overseas
Harbor Size
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2. In this connection the possibility of linking the inl:ets.d. waterways with
the sea by the construction of a canal will be examined. The first
alternative provides for the construction of a canal ecrnecting Rostock
with the Plauor, See (Lake Plau) using .the W7arnow-Nebel waterways, while
the' second alternative provides for a canal from Groifswald to the Peene
River continuing to the Upper-Havel Waterways. However, these two
alternatives could be an economic scheme only on condition that the
waterways joining them also are expanded. A rough preliminary estimate
so fir indicated a total amount of between 350,000,000-end 400,000,000.0
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to be 0 years and the second criod o c:!nstract.on. 5 years
2., In .1_!. connection the possibility of linkin" t'n , inla;_?{i uaterun w with
the sea by the conotr'uctjen of a canal 021 be exaai nod , 7 ho first
alternative provides f on %o construction of a canal cc.nnecting ostocl: