FINNISH MERCHANT FLEET SHIPBUILDING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300080006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 24, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Finlazd/WSR
S ECT Finn sh . ercharrr ?loot
Shipbuilding
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:i ., On 20 September 1946 the Finnish ;.fie, Banta. Le iJ arine
numbered. ioe Merchant ships (each above l y::00 tons) totalling
322.000 tons, It includes eleven ocean-going stearers totalling
'15,500 tons,
2, The exploitation of the Finnish Merchant Fleet in the
Baltic is illustrated by the following figures:
Z111 Put at the disposal
of the USSR
On regular shipping
line service
.poradic shipping
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Undergoing overhaul
and repairs
Shi, rs 2E S
17 542500
2#. 60 , 000
40 102,000
12 30,000
Total 97 24V'v_5U6"_
DIST. 24 J ary 1947
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3:. After the armistice Finland was forced to cede to the
USSR twenty-nine of its merchant ships, of which twelve (totalling
about 3,000 tons) were returned to Finland up to 1 August or
I September 1945,, At present the USSR is using only seventee
Finnish ships having a total tonnage of S4 90Qe $'To.
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4o As regards Shipp n tQ aid 11'Uif' k in1and, "'_4!!'! `?j'"_ ship!!
carry the following amounts:
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a,, Finnish ships 73% 88
ba Foreign ships 29 2
~. Of the twenty-four tugs and two floating cranes which
Fixiland bcught from the USA on demobilization (six tugs of ?50 HP
and thirteen of 400 11P), ten tugs and one crane have already been
delivered. The Finnish Governrr:cnt had intended to sell these tugs
to private firms, but none of the latter wishes to purchase thew,
as they regard the price (20 million Finnish Narks for a large tug
and 12 million for a small tug) as far too high., The government,
therefore, has decided to adapt six of these tugs for ice-breakers,
each at a cost ' of 10 million Finnish t,,.arlIs and to use six tugs as
trawlers The use to which the remaining twelve tugs will ulti-Aately
be put is not yet known.
6, Until 1952 the Valkon Laiva shipyard, employing 500
workers, is to build seventy ships as war reparations, At present
this shipyard is making wooden ferries of 1,000 tons each., So for
not one ship has been comoleted, There are four cutters and two
J,sv ies an the slipways a
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