GOODS SHIPPED ON THE DANUBE RIVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012800050003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952 7Y"'"
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY,
SUBJECT
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
Yugo slavia./Hungary/C zechosio
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DATE DISTR. 3 July 1952
Goods Shipped on the Danube Rivet NO. OF PAGES 2
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
NO. OF ENCLS.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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aQ The export of maize from Yugoslavia
The goods currently shipped from Yugoslavia via the Danube River are mainly the
following.- maize, pyrites, crude oil, paraffin and oil waste .(pakum) 50X1-HUM
final destination uaaknown0 The average monthly ex-
port of maize is approximately 20,000 metric tons. Maize is loaded in the
following places-. Pancevo - although marked as Danube port, it is 3 km up
the Tanis Rivera Kovi.n, Smederevo; Ilok; Zabrezje on the Sava Rives 50X1-HUM
Osjek on the Drava River. and Zrenjanip.. (Begej Canal).
following ports
bd Pyrites exports reach a monthly average of 30,000 metric tons
final destination unknown. Pyrites is loaded e
(1)
Donji Mi.;lanovacc a where the pyrites arrives directly from the mines by
cable rail a The aanti.ty arriving at the port is. appro .mately 650
tons daily-
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(2) Sni iederevo, where it arrives by rail from the mines at Bor. The loading
at %ederevo is done manually, and
(3) Belgrade,, where it arrives by rail o The loading there is done by modem
equipment
co Oil exports amount to approximately 5,000 tons per month
Gil comes from the refineries at Sisak (on the Sava River), Osjek (on
the Drava River), and Smed.erevo 0 50X1-HUM
2, The goods imported into" Yugoslavia by ship are the following. flour, coke., crude
: , machinery and tracks.
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3 a The ma n:.Hungai ian exports='vi'a the'Danube go to the Soviet Union and consis
of madhinery, petrol and paraffin
Czechoslovak -exports by Danube consist mainly of coke, coal and heavy "Tatra"
trucks The trucks are loaded on 1,000-ton barges., each barge carrying 20
trucks. Not all Czechoslovak transports sail to the lower Danube (Brailu9'
Ismail.)a Some of the ships unload at Turnu Severin, from where the goods con-
tinue their journey by rail. On the up-river run, the Czechoslovak ships
carry mainly pyrites and bauxiteal
o Comment. No information is available as to the source of the
pyrites and bauxite going up-river to Czechoslovakia.
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