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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 2011
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• Publication Date: May 29, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
UB ECT Economic Surer
DI;ST M&Y 1914?
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Ports and Mercantile Marine:
1. The Tugoslsv Government has set up a national victualling organization
which win be responsible for suppler all? national ships and foreign ships
visiting Yugoslav ports, This organization will control food gtores in
Fiume,, Zara., Split and Dubrovnik.
2. The foll owixr is reported on activities in Yugoslav ports:
Kra evac A new wharf is being constructed along the Tito
Shipyards. During the months January and
February two small ships and five tugs were
repaired in these shipyards.
Split Work on reinforcing the S. F. Ihijee fare ter
(northa'n sector) over a length of ].% meters is
almost complete. Repairs to damage caused by. the
aim bombardment of the Stalin Pier are stir, in
progress. This damage affected a stretch of 100
meters of the pier.
Vakarska Work on the construction of a landing pier to the
west of the existing pier is in progress. This
landing pier at present measures 64 meters in
length and rises 4 meters above the water level.
Susak Repair work on the foundations of the Bacica Pier
is still in progress; it is expected to be serviceable
by the end of 19117. Work on the x September pier is
also in progress.
Repair work on the Trieste Pier (120 meters long)
is almost co plete... Repair work on the Zagreb Pier
and the Vladimir Gortan breakwater is still in
progress. Repairing of the oil port installations
has now begun.
Ploce in connection with the development of the port of
Eloce (at the mouth of the teretva River), an
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Sibenik The "Ugljenare" Pier has now been repaired.
B. Electricity:
3. Power Stations
a. A plan for the construction of a hyddo-electric power
station at Plezzo is at present being studied at
Aidussina.
b. Work is in progress on the construction of the Bogadic
hydro-electric power station in the vicinity of Sarajevo.
Work has already been completed on the construction of
water conduit pipes, 2,300 meters long. The electrical
generating plant is already on location and consists of
two turbines, together with their respective generators.
c. Repair work is being undertaken at Javornik on a 100-ton
turbine, developing 1,700 HP. This turbine will be sent
to the Krk River hydro-electric power station.
High Tension Cables
a. The electrical industry organization -- ttElektrodalmacija" proposes to construct high tension cables between Lozovec
(near Sibenik) and Zara. Zara will thus receive its electric
supplies from the Krk River hydro-electric power station.
The thereto-electric power station at present functioning in
Zara will be held in reserve.
b. A high tension cable is under constiuction between Split
and Sinj; it will be fed by the Tito hydro-electric power
station on the Cetina River.
c. A high tension cable linking the power station at Gruz
(Dubrovnik area) with Komovac has been constructed.
5.
Electrical Industry
a. "Impol" works at Slovenska Bistrica is at present engaged in
producing field telephone equipment, electric cables and
electric motors. Construction of magnetoes is done by the
Jesenice Steel Works.
A factory at Kranj is engaged in work similar to that of
"Impol" .
C. Roads and Bridges:
6. Roads
a. Work is proceeding on the Dalmatian Coast on the construction
of a military road which is designed to form part of a strategic
road stretching from north to south along the whole Adriatic Coast.
b. Repair work is proceeding on the following main Dalmatian
roads: Zara-Benkovac, Sibenik Trogir and Split--Makarska.
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c. In connection with the construction of the Zagreb-Belgrade
autobahn work is now in progress on the Zagreb--Ivan ja-Ri j eka.Rugvica
sector.
d. Work on the Ljubljana Vrhnika road, which was suspended during
the recent cold spell, has now been resumed. This road will nave
a cement/concrete foundation, and a plan is at present being studied,
which will provide for the extension of this road as far as Logatec.
7. Road Bridges
a. The road bridge over the Nisava River at Nis is in the process of
being reconstructed. This work is being done in conjunction with
the re-metalling of the Belgrade-Nis road.
b. A new steel bridge over the Kupa River is being built at Karlovac,
which will link the center of the city with the Banija Sector.
The bridge will be about 3.00 meters long.
c. A new bridge over the G1ina River - 32 meters long - has been
constructed on the Vojnic-K7adus road.
a. A new bus service linking Logatec and Idria began on 22 March
with the following timetable:
Logatec
Departure
0645
1615
Idria
Arrival
0755
1725
Idria
Departure
0415
1330
Logatec
Arrival
0525
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b. The following is the timetable for bus service between Kranj and
Ljubljana:
Kranj
Departure
1330
Ljubljana
Arrival
1915
Ljubljana
Departure
2330
Kranj
Arrival
0015
c. A bus service between Senj-Karlobag Oborvac will shortly be in-
augurated. This service is designed to link up with existing
Karlobhg-Gospic bus services.
D. Inland Water Transport
9. Flans are being considered for widening the Bosna River between Sarajevo
and Dobooj, with the object of making it possible to use this stretch of the
river for the transportation of goods bt boat. The Bosna River is already
opera to traffic between Doboj and the confluence of the Bosna and Sava Rivers
at Sac.
100 The Yugoslav Goverment is currently studying plans for the construction
of a navigable canal - 50 kilometers in length -F which will link Vukc-var with
Samac. The canal would follow this course: North of Vukovar, East of Vinkovci,
along the railroad track up to a few kilometers to the West of Gradiste and on
to Samac.
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Note: In conjunction with this plan the construction of a
number of grain silos at Samac is being considered.
32. With a view to preventing the widespread damage caused each year
by the flooding of the Drava in the Varazdin area and in the area where
the Drava links up with the Kura and Trnava Rivers,'the Government has
ordered the construction of a number of flood dykes. Most of this work
will take place in the following localities: Breze, Varazdin, Zabnik,
Stefanovec, Prelog, Legrad, Kom rnica, Novacak, Levec, Medvedicka,
Bukovlje, Brestic, Cickovina, Hrznica, Kotoriba and at Dekanovec on
the 19hra.
E. Industrry and Mines:
12. The "Gradis" (National Contractors) is at present responsible for
the construction of the following enterprises in Slovenia:
Ljubljana - t"Litostroj" Factory
Maribor - Hydro-electric power station
Medvode - tt It It it
Mosta (Gorensko) - Dam for the hydro-electric power station
Ljubljana-Vrhnika - Cement road.
13. "Gradis" will shortly begin construction on the following:
Ceije - Wood workshops
Trzic - Enlargement of spinning mill
Jarsa' - Pharmaceutical products factory
Zalog - Silos (,O meters high)
Novo Mesto - Weaving mill.
14. The Ministry of Industry in Slovenia has announced that, as of 15 }larch
1947, the Ministry will be reorganized so as to provide for ten Directorates,
each under the control of a General Director responsible directly to the
Ministry of Industry.
Directorate of Electrical Industries and Electrification
11 11 Textile Industry
it " Leather Industry
it n Metallurgical Industry
Chemical Industry
tt it TiW)er Industry
n n Building Industry
tt " Printing Industry
11 " Mining Industry
11 at Conserved Food Industries
15. The Government is reported to be studying plans for the creation of a
highly developed industrial center in the Zenica iron and coal mining area
in Bosnia.
Note: Zenica is located on the proposed Samac-Sarajevo railroad
link.
16. A new asphalt mine has been open at Ulcinj in Montenegro.
Note: Asphalt mines are known to exist only in Vrgorac (west
of Metkovic) 30 kilometers from the nearest RR station
and in Bustrenje (Macedonia) 7 kilometers from the nearest
RR station. It is also understood that natural asphalt
deposits exist in Selenice (about 20 kilometers east of
Valona, Albania).
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17. A new weaving mill is being constructed at Projupije in Serbia.
18. A new paper factory, located in Skoplje, has just begun production.
Note: this is the only factory of its 50X1-HUM
type in Macedonia and that the machinery installed
was manufactured in Yugoslavia.
19. The Krapina mines (Varazdin area, Croatia) are in the process of being
mechanized and modernized.
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