RIVER TRAFFIC AND THE RUMANIAN RIVER FLEET

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT River Traffic and the Rumanian
River Fleet
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. All traffic on the Danube was managed by the River Traffic
Directorate of SOVROMTRZNSPORT.. This river traffic was of
four types:
a. International Soviet traffic (traficul international
Sovietic) between the USSR and Austria and Czechoslovakia.
The cargo consisted of cereals and oil from the USSR
against bauxite, pyrites, automobiles, industrial machines
and metal articles from Austria and Czechoslovakia. In
July 1953 the volume of such traffic for the month amounted
to 250,000 tons.
b. National traffic (traficul national) consisted of export
of Rui nian cereals, for various Czechoslovak, Austrian,
and Hungarianproducts. The volume of such traffic for
the month of July 1953 was 45,000 tons.
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c. Military traffic (traficul militar) consisted of cargoes of
construction materials for military constructions, cement,
lumber, sand, gravel-. The- volume of this traffic for the
month of July 1953-was 130,000 tons.
d. Local traffic (traficul local)=in-Rumanian waters, amounted
for the month of July 1953 to 5,000 tons diversified cargo.
The River. Fleet
2. Rumanian River Fleet included 48 diesel tow boats of 220-1,200 HP.
Two*1,200 HP tow boats were used'for cataracts. Six 220 HP tow
boats were'used for service in harbors to
pull barges, etc.
Fifteen 600 HP'tow boats and 800 HP tow boats were used to pull
barges in transport.
3. Rumania'also had some 208'barges in its river fleet. The barges
were-divided into,three.categories: Category I, the best,
included'80 600-1,200 - ton barges; Category II,-included
50-400-1,000 - ton barges; the remaining 80 200-1,500 - ton
barges were in Category III. However-, because of their great
age,'only"about 30 of the barges in Category I were usable
for transporting minerals (such'as bauxite from Austria to the
Rumanian ports of Ismail and Ren). Some of the other barges
in.Category I were used for transporting lighter-weight cargoes
of cereals. The.barges in Category III were obsolete and had
been-taken'out of'service. In 1953 only about 130 barges were
.actually in use on the Danube and other rivers for transporting
both Rumanian and Soviet goods.
Because of the poor condition of barges in service, great
attention was being paid to the construction of new barges
in the shipyards of Turnu-Severin fN 44-38, E 22-407, Giurgiu
5 .43-53, E 25-577, and Galati-Braila. In 1953 20 new barges
were under construction and many others were repaired. The
combined maximum production capacity of these shipyards was
55 1,000 - ton barges per year, but that quantity of barges,
although badly needed, could not be constructed because of
lack of materials, personnel, and proper organization.
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