RUMANIAN MERCHANT MARINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100140011-0
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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crew of 37-40 men. Vessel is loading 5,000 tons of wheat and su yphurio
acid for Durres.
.j, 5;3, i'LEI-CWV, Captain kctpesou.
MS (,J1USTA13TA, BOO tons,, Captain Jicolau. This vessel was built at
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The following vessels belonging, to Sovromtransport are
SS ADELEs, Ca.,tain 0vidiu Cernatoscu. This vessel is presently under
repair at Constsnta?
US FREDERICK E1 GE3,S 5,000 tons, Oaotain is Virgil Gheorghiu, with
c,'{S 'ItCSYLVAi1IA, Captain Titu Stenesou, cruising speed 18,5 knots,
maximum speed 22 knots, This vessel was built in Copenhagen in 1938w
iiS SULIISA, 800 tons, crew of approximately twenty men. The SULINNA
was built at Turnu Soverin in 19,110. sharing; "llovaaber 1950 a cylinder block
p,:racked and the crew was imuaediateiy changed
T. '.S m IDIA, GOO tons, with crow of 20 men. This vessel,, which was
built at Turnu :lever in in. 1:)50, struck an undea.- +ater rock in Suline
harbor and is now under repair.
h IS -- i~UGALIA,a 800 tons, crew of approxi. aately twenty menu This vessel
was built at Budapest in 19506
33 DI..1ITROV, fon..ierly the fbuiRLEti under the Dutch flag.
"' he SUL114A, CO_ISTICIT!i, t; IDIA, and :Air GAL:LA operate only in the Black Sea since
they have not received e. IAoyd.sc certificate of seaworthiness.
The SS k'LE1fA 0V is u fed principally for runs between Soviet Black Sea ports
and Albania. During the past six months the SS ADELE has plied between
Soviet Black Sea port's and Albania, but on her last voyage transported grain
~.o Sweden. The I13 F-!. Di;RICA E,iGELS sails between Constanta and Idortheras
European and -Baltic ports and between Soviet Black &)a and northern pores.
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The SS DIITROV,8 carrying wheat to Alexandria Egypt, from France, spent
;one month in Alexandria harbor because of congested conditions. This
vessel then proceeded to Constanta, loaded 5,000 tons of corn for kgypt,
and returned to Alexandria, whore it spent two months because of congestion
and boiler repairs. Carrying 3,000 tons of wheat and 2,000 tons of special
ement3, the DILITRUV left Constanta on I December 1950 and arrived at Durres
on 6 Decaaaber, Cement carried by the DLIIITROV on this trip was the type
that binds in winter weather. Un its latest trip the DiLITROV sailed directly
to Famagusta,Cyprua fret Constanta, thereafter calling at llaifa, Durres and
,unspecified Soviet Black Sea ports. During the spring of 1950 MS TRANS`. LVANIA
made a direct run between Constanta and Gdynia, carrying approximately fiften
hundred grounded Greek partisans and members of the Central Cormitt ie of the
Greek Communist Yartyti At the present time the TR NSYLVAIaIA is transporting
Jewish-immigrants from liumannia to Israel,
3. The following officials of So'v omtransport are identified,
.Director-General,, i vdo J h._or, Soviet citizen;
Director of JDwTigation, Gutkin, Soviet citizen;
Director of -d eless, Libinov, Soviet citizens,
Re inal Director at Constanta, Sinz, Soviet citizen, frequently on leave-,,
Soviet officials who go on leave usually do not return to their posts. All
higher ranking employees are Soviet citizens; their deputies are Runanians.
However ranking personnel are partly Soviet and partly Rumanian.
4,, Three cases of ..?ibotage have occurred on the DLiIT1t0Vt
n,, At an unspecified: date, 2,000 kilograms of lubridat.ing oil contained
in ton barrels were put on board in Constanta. Six or seven of these
barrels were found to contain water, Some employees of the Sovromtransport
fuel depot in "Constanta were thereafter arrested,
b. Acid containers for the ship's refrigerator system which had been shipped
to Constants, from eloesti were found to contain only compressed air,,
Approximately three hundred kilograms of meat spoiled and was thrown
overboard.
a. hhen the D1L IIROV left Durres after unloading the special cement and
wheat in December 1950, a strong deviation in the compass was discovered
to have been caused by two iron bars placed on either side at a distance
of 1.5 to 2 meters.
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