DANUBE RIVER SHIPPING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007500650003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 10, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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The foll&wing ship movements on the Danube were observed between 25 March and
3 May 1954$'
1. 25 March - Soviet DDSG tankers
for Reni9 USSR.
3. 28 March m Soviet DDSG barges
tons of bauxite., departed Badapest9 Hungary., for
4. 15 April Tn the harbor at T d.l9 USSR., lay 13 SDGP barges., 21 Mesah&rt barges,
h bar s which had all been unleaded of cargoes of
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bauxite and loaded with cargoes of pyrite for shipment upriver. In addition., four 25X1
Czech barges were being loaded with g. no
16 April m SRT tugboat SOV'ROM departed upriver from Tel ' with three barge loads.
of pyrite.
6. 17 April - SRT tugboat BELT arrived at I wail with three loaded barges of bauxite
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and one empty barge. The SDGP tugboat ONFGA depa
Czech and two SDGP barges 9 all loaded with pyrite a
7. 20 April - Mesehart tugboat HUNOR departed Ismail upriver with three barges loaded
with pyrite.
8. 21 April - SDGP tugboat KRASNAVODSK arrived at lzmai i with three loaded barges of
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bauxite. Another tugboat departed Tmail upriver towing four
pyrite.
9. 24 April m At Braila., Rumania, a tugboat picked up two barges loaded with p'rite.
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The SDGP tugboat NIOGRAD was observed on its way downriver? towing five
tankers. The SDGP tugboat BAICHASCH was observed on its way down ver toying
three loaded tankers mad two loaded barges 9 and the Czech tugboat RIMAVA was
towing four empty barges dcwnriver.
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USSR (T nail Oblast) REPORT
Dannbe River ShippiNg DATE DISTR. to November 1955
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100 26 April - At kilometer parker l30, the SDGP tugboat ASf;O!SK was seen, on. its
way downriver towing six loaded tankers,
11. 27 April - Above Giurgiu, Rumania, the Meszhart tugboat MAGYAR was observed on its
way downriver towing two loaded tankers and five loaded barges.
12. 3 May - At Turnu Severin, the Bulgarian tugboat RUSSE was observed on its way
downriver towing six loaded barges. On the-deck of each barge stood 15 to 20
three-ton truck chassis of Czechoslovakian make,
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