ECONOMIC - WATER TRANSPORTATION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700140173-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 173
• Publication Date: October 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Water transportation
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 16 Jul - 8 Sep 1953
LANGUAGE
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CD NO.
DATE OF
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
NEW SERVICES, SHIPPING OPERATIONS ON USSR WATERWAY SYSTEM;
MERGER OF BALTIC STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
NEW CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS DEVELOPED FOR SHIPBOARD USE -- Moscow, Vodnyy Trans-
port, 25 Jul 53
A number of new construction materials have been developed from inexpensive
raw materials. Some of these have successfully replaced expensive metals, with
no decrease in quality or dependability, and in some cases showing significant
advantages in weight, durability, and cost. Lignofol, for example, is being
widely used as lining for deadwood bearings.
Polychlorovinyl foam plastic can be employed as heat, noise, and moisture
insulation. It weighs less than cork and costs two sevenths as much. An elas-
tic polychlorovinyl foam plastic of the PKhV-9 type has been developed, de-
signed especially for use in life jackets
Rock wool insulatlr'n has been used in the refrigerated holds of the M/S
Marshal Govorov with fairly good results.
Vinyl plastic is produced in sheets and in the form of contoured materials,
pipes, and fittings.
Excellent results have been obtained in the treating of soft woods by a
method developed by Professor S. Val'kovekiy. After saturation with tanning
extract and exposure to ammonia vapor, the wood takes on the color of a polished
hardwood.
Of interest also is the shipboard installation of laminated wood plastics.
These materials are strong and possess anti-friction characteristics.
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SHIPPING ACTIVITY AND ADDITIONS ON THE DNEPR -- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport,
5 Sep 53
A period of heavy traffic in fruits and vegetables has begun in the Ukraine.
In the past 2 days, the M/S Ukraine and M/S Buryat-Mongoliya have arrived in
Kiev with watermelons from Kherson.
The Dnepr Steamship Company has assigned 4 tugboats, 25 barges, and 10 self-
propelled vessels for the transport of watermelons.
Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 16 Jul 53
The Dnepropetrovsk-Kiev Line of tha Dnepr Steamship Company'is exploiting
the pushing method of barge proplusion with the 12 vessels under its command.
In the past month, 40 loads were dispatched on the line, consisting of some
50,000 tons of freight -- 14 percent above the plan.
It is to be noted, however, that the ships used for pushing barges are
lying idle at their terminal ports. In Kiev the number of idle ships is
twice the normal number, and in Dnepropetrovsk five times the normal.
Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 27 Jul 53
The Dnepr Steamship Company has opened a new freight line from Kakhovka
to Gomel'. The S/S Molodaya Gvardiya made the Initial voyage on the new line.
Other new vessels are being added to the Dnepr Steamship Company. The
S/S Mekhanik has made her maiden voyage from Kiev to Zaporozh'ye. The Kiev Ship
Repair Plant imeni Stalin has built and delivered the diesel-refrigerator ships
Gruziya and Uzbekistan for use in the Kiev area.
Moscow, Pravda, 24 Jul 53
The new diesel-refrigerator ships Gruziya and Uzbekistan have joined the
Dnepr Steamship Company. In the near future, the new passenger steamers
Chernyshevskiy and Radisbchev will make their maiden voyages from Kiev to
Kherson..
S/S CHEKHOV IN REGULAR BLACK SEA SERVICE -- Moscow, Trud, 18 Jul 53
The Black Sea Steamship Company has announced that the S/S Chekhov has been
placed on a regular run between ports in the Ukraine, Crimea, and Caucasus.
NORTHERN MOVEMENT OF FOODSTUFFS -? Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 8 Sep 53
Numerous ships of the Lower Irtysh Steamship Company have been delivering
foodstuffs to the Far Northern areas. Voyages are being made along the Irtysh
and Ob` rivers.
The M/S ST-7 made the voyage from Omsk to Salekhard, the MIS ST-4 from Omsk
to Nizhnevartovsk, and the M/S ST-127 sailed northward from Novo-Pokrovka. Other
vessels made the trip from Omsk to Beyezovo.
The ST-122, ST-126,, and ST-8 carried grain from the new harvest.
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BALTIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY MERGER --. Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 8 Sep 53
The merger of the three Baltic .teamship companies into one and the trans-
fer of the ports to the steamship company's authority has had a beneficial ef-
fect on the port of Rigs.
Directions for port activity and fleet movement have become more central-
ized, more specific, and more efficient as a result of the reorganization.
his is the first preAs mention seen in FDD of a merger of the three
Baltic steamship companies./
NEW CONSTRUCTION AND SERVICE ON THE DNESTR -- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 8 Sep 53
The following passenger lines are operating on the Dnestr River: Belgorod-
Dnestrovskiy --. Ovidiop:il'; Bendery-Sharpeny; and Rybnitsa-Rashkov.
The Bendery Ship Repair Plant, where the passenger diesels Moldaviya and
Ukraine were built, is constructing barges and ferryboats, and is completing
capital repairs on barges with a carrying capacity of 650 tons destined for
the transport of grain,
The M/S Moskva and the M/S Dnestr are now operating on 'the Dnestr River.
TANKER MOSKVA IN BALTIC Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 28 Jul 53
The tanker Moskva 5re?"iously listed with Sovtanker; Morskoy F1ot, 9 Aug 52;
Trud, 15 Feb 537is operating in the Baltic Sea at present.
PORT CONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENT -- V!l'ryus, Sovetskaya Litva, 23 Jul 53
The port of Klaypeda has exceeded the government cargo working plan by
17.2 percent,
This achievement was made possible in part by the mechanization of the
port's cargo working gear. At present, 94 percent of the port's facilities are
mechanized?
Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 5 Sep 53
As a result of increased traffic along the Lena River, a new port is being
constructed at Osetrovo, on the Lena at the mouth of - the Kuta River. The port
will be equipped with mecha_ical cargo working gear
GRAIN FROM NEW HARVEST MOVING ON VOLGA -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 22 Jul 53
The Volga Freight Steamship Company has begun shipment of grain from the
new harvest. Ships are being dispatched along the Volga from Krasnoarmeysk
loaded with wheat from the western Caucasus. The S/S Kemerovo has arrived in
Shcherbakov with 1,685 tons of wheat, the M/S Beloruss'ya has sailed for Yaro-
slavl' with 2,800 tons of grain, and the MIS Chita is carrying grain to Gor'kiy.
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PASSENGER AND TIMBER SERVICE INCREASED ON VOIOA_DON -_ Moscow, VodnYY Trans...
29 Aug 53
The movement of heavy timber floats has begun over the Volga-Don Canal to
the Tsimlyanskaya Reservoir.
By the end of June, 20,000 cubic meters of timber had been towed from the
Volga River to the Tsimlyanskaya Reservoir.
Petrozavodek, Leninskoye Znamya, 25 Jul 53
The diesel-electric passenger vessels Rossiya and Ukraina are in service
on the Moscow -- Rostov-on-Don Line They will be Joined shortly by the Gruziya
and Azerba dzhan.
MOSCOW-VOLGA PASSENGER TRAFFIC -- M-s:ov, Vechernyaya Moskva, 24 Jul 53
Passenger vessels on the Moscow-Volga Canal carried 744,000 passengers
during June -- almost 20 percent more than during the same month last year.
DEEP WATER RAFT TOWING BEGINS IN FAR EAST Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 21 Jul 53
The Far East and Sakhalin Steamship Companies have begun raft towing across
the Okhotsk Sea during the summer months.
The first to leave was the S/S Yemel'yan Pugachev, which started on a 1,500-
mile voyage with a 2,000-ton raft in tow,
DREDGE BEGINS WORK AT KUYBYSP3.V GES PROJECT -- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 21 Jul 53
After.a voyage across the Black and Azov seas, up the Don River, through
the Volga-Don Canal, and up the Volga River, the dredge Tsyurupa has arrived
at Zhigulevsk on the Volga, where it wi ? begin operations in connection with
the construction of the Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station.
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