STATISTICS ON SHIPPING AND CARGOES IN CUBAN TRADE JANUARY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1962

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STATISTICS ON SHIPPING AND CARGOES IN CUBAN TRADE
JANUARY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1962
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STATISTICS ON SHIPPING AND CARGOES IN CUBAN TRADE
JANUARY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1962
An evaluated consolidation of all available information on shipping
and cargo movements through Cuban ports during the first 9 months of
1962 is presented in Tables 1 through 8. The data presented in these
tables have been organized into three main categories, as follows:
"Ship Arrivals," covered by Tables 1 and 2; "Inbound Cargoes," covered
by Tables 3, 4, 5, and 8; and "Outbound Cargoes," summarized in Tables
6 and 7. The same source material was used for all of the three cate-
gories covered, but the amount of information available varies consider-
ably within each category.
Ship movements probably are covered fully by the sources that were
used. Consequently, the ship arrival tables represent, for all practical
purposes, a complete picture.
Source coverage of cargoes outbound from Cuba is uneven with re-
spect to comprehensiveness. It is estimated that in regard to sugar the
coverage is nearly complete. Thus Table 7 and the parts of Table 6
dealing with this commodity may be regarded as closely approximating
the totals actually shipped.
Information on nonsugar cargoes outbound from Cuba, however, is
much less comprehensive. Consequently, the "Other Cargo" columns
of Table 6 must be considered as minimum estimates of actual cargo
tonnage.
As is true of information pertaining to outbound cargoes, informa-
tion on inbound cargoes varies according to the commodity involved.
Inbound tanker cargoes (consisting of crude petroleum, refined prod-
ucts, and lubricants) are well covered, and information on these cargoes
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may be accepted as essentially complete. On the other hand, available
information on other types of inbound cargo is considerably less than
complete, with the result that the data on dry cargo in Tables 3 to 5
must be regarded as minimum estimates of total shipments.
It is evident from Table 3 that the cargo capacity of ships moving
into Cuba during the period covered was only partly utilized. Tanker
capacity was well utilized, but known dry cargoes represent only a
small portion of the available capacity. -In part, this condition is a
reflection of the poor coverage of inbound dry cargoes discussed above,
but, in addition, it also reflects the fact that many vessels made their
inbound voyages with only a light load or entirely in ballast. For these
reasons, the dry cargo capacity of vessels inbound to Cuba offers no
reliable clue to the cargo tonnage actually received.
The data presented in Table 4 probably are the least complete
of any in this study. In some commodity categories -- notably the
bulk items such as grain, pulp and paper, lumber, fertilizers, and
cement -- the figures given probably represent reasonably accurate
estimates. The nature of available cargo information, however, often
poses serious problems for the identification and quantification of other
commodity categories such as machinery and equipment, manufactured
consumer goods and foods, iron and steel, chemicals, and other raw
materials. Specific tonnages attributed to these items in Table 4 must
be treated as minimum estimates, for it is almost certain that these
same items make up a large proportion of the tonnage carried in the
"Unidentified" row of this table.
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Table 1
Ship Arrivals in Cuba, by Month
January-September 1962
Number of Ship Arrivals
Soviet Bloc Flag Non-Bloc Flag'.
Dry Total Dry Total
Month Cargo Tanker Bloc Cargo Tanker Non-Bloc Total
January 19 12 31 104 15 119 150
February 25 9 34 104 16 120 154
March 14 8 22 84 14 98 120
April 21 12 33 64 14 78 111
May 21 13 34 71 14 85 119
June 14 13 27 66 14 80 107
July 19 11 30 79 15 94 124
August 46 13 59 60 9 69 128
September 54 13 67 59 8 67 134
Total 233 104 337 691 119 810 1,147
a. Including Cuban flag vessels.
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Ship Arrivals in Cuba, by Flag
January-September 1962
Number of Ship Arrivals
Country
Soviet Bloc
Dry Cargo Tanker Total
USSR
199 a/
100
299
Poland
17
0
17
East Germany
11
0
11
Czechoslovakia
3
0
3
Bulgaria
3
4
7
233
l04
337
Non-Bloc
Belgium
2
0
2
Chile
4
0
4
Cuba
45
0
45
Denmark
38
0
38
Finland
3
0
3
France
12
0
12
Germany
77
0
77
Greece
132
27
159
Honduras
1
0
1
Italy
23
5
28
Japan
27
0
27
Lenanon
43
0
43
Liberia
25
0
25
Morocco
4
0
4
Netherlands
21
0
21
Norway
51
22
73
Panama
14
0
14
South Africa
1
0
1
Spain
33
0
33
Sweden
25
0
25
Turkey
1
0
1
UK
86
59
145
Yugoslavia
22
6
28
Unidentified
1
0
1
691
119
810
924
223
1,147
a. Including 15 arrivals (94,295 gross register tons) of passenger
ships.
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Table 3
Total Cargo Capacity of Ships Arriving in Cuba
and Known Inbound Cargoeo,bDy,Month
January-September 1962
,'Total Cargo Opacity
Known Inbound Cargo
Month
Dry
Tanker
Total
Dry
Tanker
Total
January
1,049
510
1,559
193
375
568
February
1,177
511
1,688
169
387
556
March
909
454
1,363
167
374
541
April
748
577
1,325
185
444
629
May
863
525
1,388
237
398
635
June
765
564
1,329
262
411
673
July
941
556
1,497
213
405
618
August
1,003
429
1,432
280
331
611
September
1,112
510
1,622
309
445
754
Total
8,567
4,636
13,203
2,015
3,570
5,585
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Table 4
Known Inbound Dry Cargo to Cuba J
January-September 1962
Thousand Metric Tons
Monthly Average
Category of Cargo
January-March
April-June
July
August
September
Military
3.3
2.0
4.6
45.3
66.8
Economic
Food
38.6
80.4
45.7
87.6
83.3
Grain and flour
32.8
71.2
39.8
73.7
72.0
Other
5.8
9.2
5.9
13.9
11.3
Machinery and
equipment
1.0
0.4
0.1
0
3.1
Iron and steel
5.8
9.5
0
1.6
0
Chemicals
8.2
14.4
7.5
0
5.0
Fertilizer
17.2
20.5
36.9
22.2
30.5
Lumber
15.1
13..2
13.4
12.0
18.8
Cement
12.3
3.2
0
27.4
26.8
Pulp and paper
2.5
0.8
0
5.0
0
Unidentified
72.4
83.5
104.4
79.2
74.4
173.1
225.9
207.9
235.0
241.
227.9
212.6
280.3
308.8
a. Because of rounding, components may not add to the totals shown. In
some instances, cargo tonnages were estimated. The methodology that was
used in making the estimates is available in the files of this Office.
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Table 5
Origin of Inbound Dry Cargo to Cuba J
January-September 1962
Thousand Metric Tons
Monthly Average
Count?y January-March April-June July August September
Sino-Soviet Bloc
USSR
131+.8
171.2
11+x,:.1
202.5
250.1
Communist China J
7.7
26.1+
9.0
32.1+
26.5
European Satel-
lites
11.2
5.9
25.8
6.6
21.2
Total Sino-
Soviet Bloc
153.8
203.5
175.9
21+1.5
297.8
Western Europe
3.8
10.1+
19.9
16.5
1.6
UK
0.5
0
0
0
0
West Germany
0.1
4.6
0.1+
7.0
0
Benelux
1.0
1.7
19.3
3.6
1.6
Other
2.2
4+.2
0.1
5.9
0
Japan
0.2
2.5
0.1
1+.6
1+.1+
Canada
4.7
5.1
0
1.6
1.6
Chile
6.5
2.8
0
3.4
3.2
Egypt
0
0
3.3
3.1+
0
India and
Pakistan
6.5
0
12.5
0
0
Other
1.1
3.5
0.8
9.1-
0
Total Non-Bloc
22.7
21+.1+
36.6
38.8
10.9
Total 176.4 227.9 .6 `280.3 308.8
a. Because of rounding, components may not add to the totals shown.
b. Including rice shipped from Burma on Chinese Communist account and
one cargo from North Vietnam.
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Table 6
Outbound Cargoes from Cuba,. byMor'th
January-September 1962
Thousand Metric Tons
Sugar
Other Caro
On Soviet
Shi
On Non-
s
Shi
Bl
On Soviet On Non-
Total Bloc Ships Bloc Ships
Total
Total
Cargo
Month
ps
Bloc
p
oc
January
65
509
574 1 68
69
643
February
120
329
449 26 61
87
536
March
183
709
892 1 43
44
936
ril
A
145
71
71
9
8
5
p
Ma
136
352
488 80
80
6
y
June
138
441
579 1 39
40
619
July
102
342
444 15
15
459
ust
Au
45
270
315 1 10
11
326
g
September
20
158
178 1 6
7
185
3
4
5 47 L 393
424
4,97 1
Total
954
2523
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Table 7
Direction of Outbound Sugar Cargoes from Cuba
January-September 1962
Thousand Metric Tons
Monthly Average
Country
January-
March
April-
June
July
August
Se
tembe
T
t
l
p
r
o
a
Sino-Soviet Bloc
USSR
310
255
191
137
34
2
057
Communist China ,
123
l08
106
137
38
,
974
European Satellites
l08
4
9
16
o
0
487
Sino-Soviet Bloc total
.541
412
313
274
72
3,518
Non-Bloc
Convertible Currency Area
UK
0
18
15
0
12
81
West Germany
0
1
0
8
0
11
Benelux
2
1
15
0
2
26
Other Western European
5
2
4
3
10
38
Japan
18
76
37
0
14
333
Canada
0
0
0
0
0
0
Tunisia
7
5
0
10
7
53
Other
Convertible Currency
8
10
0
0
13
67
Area total
40
113
71
21
58
609
Clearing Agreement Area
Egypt
11
11
0 0
0
66
Morocco
26
21
14 20
19
194
Chile
5
0
36 0
0
51
Yugoslavia
0
2
0 0
26
32
Greece
5
6
10 0
3
46
Portugal
Clearing ~Agre.e nentt
10
0
0
0
30
Area total
57
4o
60 20
48
419
97
153
131 41
l06
1
028
,
~3_8
444 3
178
Including 7,000 tons
.
b. Because of rounding, components may not add to the totals shown.
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Known:''Inbound Tanker Cargoes to Cuba, by Month
January - September 1962
Crude Diesel Total Crude
Month Oil Gasoline Fuel Oil Fuel Oil Other Total _a/ and Products
January 324.2 1+2.7 8.3 51.1 375.2
February 255.5 33.0 98.1 131.1 386.5
March 259.4 12.9 102.2 115.0 371+.1+
April 283.8 45.7 7.8 102.3 4.9 160.7 444.5
May 245.0 11.9 3.7 121.8 15.2 152.6 397.6
June 336.4 9.9 4.4 54.8 5.2 74.3 410.8
July 355.3 13.6 35.2 1.0 49.9 405.2
August 289.4 14.9 2.2 14.8 9.3 41.2 330.6
September 418.2 9.9 16.9 26.8 445.0
Total a/ 2,767.2 118.8 51.2. 588.9 43.9 802.8 3,569.9
a. Because of rounding, components may not add to the totals shown.
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