CARGO SHARING AGREEMNET BETWEEN TRISTINE AND YUGOSLAV MARITIME SHIPPING AGENCIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800360004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1,. About the middle of July 1950, a Yugoslav delegation was sent to Trieste under
the auspices of the Ministry of Merchant Marine to confer with the directors
of Triestine or Italian shippin? companies with headquarters in Trieste The
Yugoslav delegation included the foliowin,-?a Pezel, Viletic, Vukotic and Percy ic.
They conferred with Giovanni Suttora of the Italia Navigation Company and with
Dr. Luciano Sandrin of Lloyd Triestino, who originally were scheduled to ,7o
to Belgrade for the same purpose. Reportedly, the Yu, +slav dsle~a.tion was
entirely satisfied with the results obtained. Following the agreements
reached at this conference, there now exists an unofficial accord between
the three participants for the handling of cargo in the ports of Trieste
and Rijeka.
2. An important fr.ctor leading to the agreement was the presence in Trieste of
an unidentified reiresentative of the American Export Line who conferred
with the Yugoslav delegation and offered then the services of certain ships
on Mediterranean runs to hel, carry cargc which Yugoslav ships could not
handle. He had been informed of their arrival by the local agent of the
American Export Lines, a certain:, Starcle., This offer virtually forced the
Trieste core anies to reach an agreement with the Yugoslavs on the handling
of cargo in the two ports.
3. The main objective of the Trieste companies at this conference was to safe-
guard their traditional lines with the Near Eastern and North African ports.
.ich of the cargo for these two areas originates in Yugoslavj,and is now
befn; shirred on Yugoslav vessels through the port of Rijeka? The Trieste
companies, at the same tile, could not risk losing lucrative Italian trade
by causing offense to the Italian Government through too close an agreement
with the Yugoslavs. Qirrently, most of the officials of these two companies,
if only for economic reasons, feel themselves to be Triestine rather than
Italian, but, for !olitical reasons, dare not express themselves openly on
this subject.
The Yugoslav delegation was most anxious to reach an agreement with the Trieste
companies because the small Yugoslav Merchant ~garine is unable to maintain
regular service between Trieste ani Rijeka and the Near ::est. This short-
coming was particularly irritating to the Yugoslav Ministry of Conmaerce which
is do ng everythiu .,n its power to maintain and win thew markets in the Near
East. It often. hai:pened that a Yu osirv vessel, after discharging cargo in
Alexandria, would have to Co to Beirut to load only 50 tons of cargo for Rijeka
while, at the seine tirieO, a T iestine vessel would be return3n- empty from Beirut
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5a The asreement, Which will permit both Yu,Toslav and Trieste ships to handle
each others cargoes in the ports of Trieste and Rijeka in a mutually
profittkable F,way, will result in considerable saving in time and expense to
the Yugoslavs and will increase the l:usiness of the Trieste compar.les., -I
After the conference, two of the Yu -oslav delegates went to Bled where
they gave Tito a eoml.lete account of what was accompli^ edo
6. The results of this conference are bein,,- kept secret by the Tries'.e companies.
in the face of the current Italian press campai?n against the Yu- ssla?+rs,
whom they clai'-: are trying to mono clize all trade in the Adriatic, the
directors of the Lloyd and Italia conranies are rather fearful of twAc official
roact.cn of the Italian Government to the accord. When Oscar ?silo, director
of the Itnli,~n A: SA News Agency, requested the results of the conference from
Lloyd Triestino, he ?:-,as informed that the full results of the conference
2WTAnot yet ready for publication.
Coi. rient: Froi-; independent sources it has been ccnfirnied that Trieste
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Comment: Your attention is drawn to the
dated 1? April 1950
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