SHIPPING TO CAMBODIA IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 1968

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• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: May 1, 1968
• Content Type: IM

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MAY 1968
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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Memorandum
Shipping to Cambodia
in! the First Quarter of 1968
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Foreword
This memorandum analyzes the pattern of foreign
shipping to Cambodian ports to help in determining
whether arms or military-related goods are reaching
the Viet Cong through Cambodia. It updates CIA/ER
IM 68-49, Shipping to Cambodia in the Fourth
Quarter of 1967 and Trends in 1967, May 1968,
and is the third report
written on a quarterly basis. Since there are
only minor seasonal variations in shipping to
Cambodia, most comparisons in this memorandum are
made with the previous quarter rather than with
the first quarter of 1967. The data for the first
quarter of 1968 are preliminary and may be modified
as additional information becomes available. For
the purposes of this memorandum, Yugoslavia is
considered to be a country of the Free World.
Cargo weights are expressed in metric tons. The
term imports, as used in this memorandum, refers
only to imports by sea. Because of rounding,
components may not add to the totals shown.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
May 1968
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Shipping to Cambodia
in the First Quarter of 1968
Summary
the first quarter of 1968.
Sihanoukville, Cambodia, aboard Chinese shi
Two probable military shipments arrived in
e were to Cambodia during the first quarter
of 1968.
Despite South Vietnam's closure of the Mekong
River for 50 days in the first quarter of 1968,
ship arrivals at Cambodian ports were up 12 per-
cent and imports were up 35 percent from the
preceding quarter. For the first time since the
port of Sihanoukville was opened in April 1960,
ship arrivals at Sihanoukville exceeded those at
Phnom Penh. More than 38,000 tons of petroleum
were discharged at Sihanoukville (the previous
high was 6,000 tons), most of it diverted from
Note: This memorandum was produced soZeZy by CIA.
It was prepared by the Office of Economic Research
and was coordinated with the Office of Current
Intelligence.
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Phnom Penh and discharged into lighters. There
were four calls of Communist ships in the first
quarter of 1968, all at Sihanoukville
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Sihanoukville
Ship Arrivals and Imports by Sea
1. A total of 149 ship calls were made at
Cambodian ports in the first quarter of 1968,
compared with 133 calls in the previous quarter.
Three-fourths of the calls were at Sihanoukville;
only one-fourth were at Phnom Penh. The volume of
imports increased 35 percent above the previous
quarter. Seventy-seven percent of the imports
were discharged at Sihanoukville and 23 percent at
Phnom Penh (see Tables 1, 2, and 3).
2. As a result of the closure of the Mekong
River for 50 days, more ships called at Sihanouk-
ville than at Phnom Penh for the first time since
the port was opened in April 1960. Of the 112 calls
at Sihanoukville, 108 were made b Free World
ships,
Congestion was a major problem
during the quar er despite the use of lighters to
offload petroleum and dry cargo.
3. Imports at Sihanoukville jumped to 156,400
tons, almost triple the volume in the fourth quarter
of 1967. Petroleum, which is rarely discharged at
Sihanoukville, accounted for much of the increase
and totaled about 38,300 tons. Imports of coal,
jute, cement, and metal products also increased
significantly.
4. About 30,000 tons -- 18 percent of total
imports to Sihanoukville -- were loaded in Communist
countries.
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5. Imports from Free World ports rose to
128,400 tons, more than triple the volume of the
fourth quarter of 1967.
6. The composition of imports to Sihanoukville
during the first quarter of 1968 and in the last
three quarters of 1967 is shown in the following
tabulation:
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Phnom Penh
8. Ship calls at Phnom Penh in the first
quarter declined sharply because of South Vietnam's
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from 5 February to 25 March.
9. Seaborne imports discharged at Phnom Penh
in the first quarter totaled 46,400 tons, only
about one-half the volume of the fourth quarter
of 1967. As shown in the following tabulation,
the closure of the Mekong River greatly reduced
deliveries of petroleum to Phnom Penh:
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Cambodia: Merchant Ship Arrivals and Cargo Discharged, by Port
Second, Third, and Fourth Quarters 1967 and First Quarter 1968
Ship Arrivals
Second Quarter Third Quarter Fourth Quarter First Quarter
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