PORT CONDITIONS AND SHIPPING INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A007600020001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 4, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Paraguay/Argentina/Chile/Peru/British West Indies/ REPORT NO.
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1. P may. Goods being shipped from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Asuncion
are handled either via. the weekly rail service or by boat. Most of the
cargo is carried by river steamers or lighters of the Flota Mercante del
Paraguay and the Compa a Naritima Dodero. These ships, which have a
hold capacity of about 1500 tons, sail weekly. Sailing schedules are
generally unaffected by weather conditions except between October and
March, when the water is. low and steamers must reduce cargo capacity as
much as 50%.
Buses, trucks and heavy lifts too large for the river steamers are
carried on lighters.
The river voyage by steamer ordinarily takes about 7 days but lighters
under tow take from 15 to 20 days.
The crane limit at Asuncion is 17 tons.
2. Argeentina. Faults in the port facilities and communication operations
are responsible for delaying ships at Argentine ports* not the volume
of grain moving, which is smaller than 20 years ago.
In August 19514 at the port of Rosario, where 26 ships were waiting to be
loaded at one time, one vessel had been delayed for over a month. While
rain was partly responsible for delay at Rosario, this condition did not
apply at Bah?a Blanca or Ifecochea, where there were even longer delays.
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Peru. At Callao as of.September 1954 cargo was being discharged into
lighters from both sides of.ships,in order to hasten the ships' clearance
from the port. This gxact e~results in containers being broken dIO
to the use of rope1 slings an& the rising and falling of lighters while
the unloading process Is 1)eing carried out.
Sometime.s,.a,eargo will remain in a lighter for several days before being
unloaded into Customs. This procedure is frequently indulged in by
Pacific Line Yessels because that line owns a number of lighters. The
port authorities are tryin to prevent this practice.ffhisdata
supplements paragraph 7 of
Goods still could not, be removed from Customs except in exchange for a
clean receipt. This practice has again been brought to the attention
of the port authorities in an effort to obtain corrective action.
a. Guadeloupe . The channel to the harbor has been? straightened; vessels
up to 201j,000 tons. may enter. A new concrete wharf with _?berths for
four 10,000-ton vessels as been co leted and four additional wharves
are under construction.
Martinique. Harbor warehouses have been improved and new equipment
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