REPORT ON THE EAST GERMAN REFRIGERATOR CAR SITUATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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I, On 2~) June: 1953, a conference at which the handling of butter, fat, sri' Gil
Lripo ?ts from the USSR was discussed, was held with v--i-t Terresen'.,ati res
in harlshors-~,o The conference was attended on the German ale by Srat
Sera?tart' Hue ttenrauch of the Ministry for Foreign and Internal? German Trade; de--
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chief Bernhard of the Ministry for the Foodstuffs Induitry, =l,
t'rwin Kramer a In July, 14,000 tons of butter, 8,000 # .b of an
:mal fats &nd 10,000 tons of oil will be importedJ0n the assumption t1 .t one
?efr:igerator car will be loaded with 12 tons of butter or fat and that eight
days will be required for a round trip , the handling of these imports wi ..1
zece.ssitate the employment of 400 German refrigerator cars ~ The ba1ar oe of
4 ,00,,) tons will be shipped in Soviet refrigerator cars as far as Berlin,.
2. The 1`1andlf.ng of the imports mentioned will he supervised by a special : 5taff
headed by Kramer. Unloading points will be in Berlin, Leipzig and Dreen0
Unloading times have been fixed at 18 hours for oil, and 12 hours for:svtter
and fate
Besides these refrigerator cars needed for imports from the USSR, other refrige-
rator cans will be required for meaty fruit and vegetable imports from, Fulgaria
a ad t zman:i_a , Ir-ports from Fur-ania alone require the employment of 150 refrige?
rator^ cars a which need 15 days for a round trip. The number of cars rr.eded
for F u-pcr .s from Fulgaria, has not yet been determined., However; the 5jO refrige,..
.,ator? carsImentioned represent the total number of refrigerator cars ftxvely
ava11able., Additional refrigerator cars in operation include 40 milk Shuttle
cars and .30 employed in Fast. Germany for purposes of the Soviet occupar..ion forcesr
Another 2 refrigerator cars are to h~s repaired at the railroad x epai? shop of
Fer'.j in-.iarschauer Strasse by 5 July 1953. A total of 34 heavily damag d refrigea-
rat~r cars are under repair at the Lowa Plant in Weimar. No date can be given
for the completion of the repair work which is allegedly delayed by R shortage
of materialso
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3, In order to close the gap in the number of refrigerator cars regquired1
the railroad- administrations of Poland., Czechoslovakia, Switzer: nd;,
Italy, Austria and Holland have been requested to furnish refrig;eratcr
cars. To date, only one answer has been received., i.e. from Po:.and,
vjhich replied in the negative. 'Czechoslovakia may possibly furnish
100 refrigerator cars for meat shipments to Czechoslovakia. It there-
fore appears that no refrigerator cars will be available; for don0stlc
German shipments in the coming three months o For this reason, orders
have been given that experiments be made with boxcars provide(iwith
dry-ice as emergency refrigerator cars.
25X1 1. amment To date, 100 to 150 refrigerator cars had been employed
for fat deliveries from the USER to East Germanys Salad oil had been
shipped in tank cars. The considerable increase of the Soviet fat de--
Viveries may be m nnected with the much publicized assistance rendered
by the Soviets in the Fast German food crisis. In July, a tota: of
1,415 empty refrigerator cars wa dispatched to Brest Litovsk.
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Conmenta freight cars made in
April 1952, 84.6 state-owned and 148 privately-o!med refrigerator cars,
i,e0 a total of 994 cars., were available in East (Germany.
It is not likely that this total has increased in
the meantime., because all newly built refrigerator cars will be de-
livered to the USSR.
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