1. RUMANIAN MARINE COMMERCE 2. TRANSSHIPMENT OF GOODS TO COMMUNIST CHINA 3. USSR TRADE ARRANGEMENT WITH GREAT BRITAIN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY 1 Ri ania/USSR
This Document oonteins information aIeotlnj the $e-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 703 and 7%. of the VA. Code. es
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorised person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is Prohibited.
SUBJECT 19 Rtaaa nian Marine Commerce DATE DISTR. 10 June 195}}
2. Transshipment of Goods to Ccemnanist
China NO. OF PAGES
3. USSR Trade Arrangement with Great Britain
DATE OF INFO. REQUIREMENT
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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COUNTRY Rumania/ USSR
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DATE DISTR. 18 M. 1954
SUB3ECT 1. Rumanian Marine Commerce NO. OF PAGES 2
2. Transshipment of Goods to Communist China
3.. USSR Trade Arrangement with Great Britain
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1. The Rumanian government neither owned, chartered, nor had any finan-
vial interest in non-Communist flag merchant ships. There may have
.been-plans to purchase merchant ships from the West, but if o,
nothing had been accomplished in that direction In
1950 Rumania invited foreign bids, b t y early 1954
not one. ship had been purchased, a invitation was only
a propaganda trick.
2.. e- entire Rumanian merchant 25X1
all flying the Rumanian flag. However, only two o
ear were owned byRumania, and both of these were antiques. The
rest were loaned ter Rumania by the USSR on the basis of "participa
tion of Soviet capital in Rumanian capital" through SOVROMTRANSPQRT.
The ,loan .of these. ships was conside on for Soviet use
of the Rumanian river fleet barges The vessels were 25X1
all manned by Rumanians a se a were Moldavians, here
were no.Soviet seamen.
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TRANSTLVAPIA originally had gun emplacements fore and aft under the
main deck, but nobody knew where the guns were located.
In 1953 ships under thr Rumanian flag were transporting cereals,
glass, chemical products, caustic soda, talc, petroleum, and lumber
from Rumania to Mediterranean and Western ports and carrying direct
to Constanta, Rumania, special steel, pipes, steel plates, rails?
and steel wire from Antwerp, cotton and citrus fruit from Alexandria
and Beirut, and tobacco and old copper articles from Istanbul and
Smyrna.
Rumania had no marine commerce with Bulgaria. Bulgaria's main
commerce was with the Soviets. SOVROMTRANSPORT ships were used to
transport Bulgarian bauxite and pyrites to Novoro~--,P .
and Bulgarian tobacco and marmalade to Odessa,
merchant ships were not fitted'for future addition of guns The
ship sailed to Albania 10 times over a six-month period in 1951. 25X1
not any arms or ammunition delivered there. Whatever
arms they had at Durazzo were obsolete German and Italian types,
and the gun emplacements there had old-type cannon and batteries.
The Albanian-Rumanian trade at that time was small, about 5-6,000
tns. monthly, and consisted of Rumanian exports to Albania of cereals,,
cement, lumber, some machine oil, and imports from Albania of bitumen;
fruits, and wool. The Soviets exported the same type of goods to
Albania.. as well as industrial machines, and imported the same
articles as Rumania, all cargo manifests recorded 25X1
this trade accurately, although no experience with Soviet
cargo manifests.
not aware of any Mediterranean ports being used as transshi. 25X1
however,) Czechoslovak and Polish goods, and also Hungarian
products, were transshipped in Constabita in 1953 to two Polish ships
and one Finnish ship of about 15,000 gross tons and 8,000 dwt. tons`.
The cargo consisted of automobiles, trucks, buses, and tractors. E :125X1
mend is for shipment of Western goods to the Communist bloc. ,,F?11
marking on the packing cases which read "Transit Constanta- 25X1
China". In September 153 one of the Polish ships was captured near
Formosa and deliveries stopped after that. Another 25X1
reason for the stoppage o these shipments was the fact that Aden
was the only refueling station and in November or December 1953 the
ships were refused permission to refuel there, according to
TEODORESCU.and CACIULIANU, in the Bureau of Exnloitation(Biroul de
the USSR concluded a trade pact with Great Britian in
on a basis of which it chartered ships of English, Greek,
Panamanians and Italian origin. There were two kinds of cha i-ta"m!
the Proi6na ftarter and the 1- son Charter - the USSR paid for the ran -por a on "go 25X1
y ese chartered ships far above the market price for cargo
transportation. These ships carried to England from the USSR mostly
cereals and rice, petroleum, and lumber. The ships then left empty
for Antwerp, where-they loaded RR rails, steel plates, small pipes
(possibly "zinc) .
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