EAST GERMANY/USSR/CZECHOSLOVIKIA/POLAND. SUMMARY TRANSPORTATION REPORT FOR APRIL 1963

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_ 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 IN'TO MATION REPORT FORMATION REPORT CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18. U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM COUNTRY East Germany/USSR/Czechoslovakia/ REPORT Poland 9 i FAL3 MUM' SumMary Transportation DATE DISTR. Report for April 1963 NO. PAGES 1 50X1-HUM REFERENCES DATE OF INFO. PLACE & DATE ACQ RD 50X1-HUM THIS IS IIKIFVAI IiATrl 114FORMATIAN SOIIRF r?RAIIIklr'S ADP riFFIAIMVF APPDAICAI no r AAITMIT IC MUTATIVE ,5 1 4 - 3 2 1 on transportation and Poland. 50X1-HUM April 1963 summary report in East Germany, the USSR, Czechoslovakia -50X1-HUM Distribution of Attachment: ORR: bai fr X.571, Army: Air: ? Retention of Copy #2 Retention of Copy #3 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM GROUP 1 EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC DOWNGRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION STATE I X1ARmY 1wm Ix I AM WX I NSA lx I OCR I X I MA I X I AID 1 (Note: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".) 5 4 3 2 1 INFORMATION INFORMATION .REPORT ?????????????????.,seeta....;rwi. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 ' Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 ? SECaT NO FOREIGN D1SSE.. 50X1 -HUM Transportation SuMmary ior Dril 1963 1- International Transport Relations OS2hD ,srganization for the Cooperption of East Bloc Railroads.) Meeting in hiev(See Lnnex 1). . Conference of the Transport Commission of the German-Polish .Committee for Economic and Scientific/Technical Cooperation, in Goerlitz. V. Conference of the Technical Commission, Railroad Transport Section, .of the Standing COMECON Transport Commission in Prague (See -Lnnex 2). Planning of, a common Charter agency of the COMECON countries. Ropes for West German membership in the Danube Commission (See 1:nnex 3). Putting in operation_of interchange station Ceska Kubicc (Boehm. Kubitzen)postponed.- "German" gondola cars- Used by Czechoslavak State Railroads. II. USSR_ Planned freight movement by all modes of transport for 1963. Merging and renaming of various railroad divisions. Beginning -with the summer timetable, speed limit of express trains t.o. be increased on Moscow - Leningrad and on Moscow - Minsk - Brest Litovsk lines, and passenger train traffic to be dieselized. between Moscow and Brest Litovsk. Kamen! -.1tayskaya stretch of Central Siberian Magistrale opened to regular traffic. Data on RR network of North Caucasus Railroad Division. Sverdlovsk - Vaga - Natsyvaevskaya stretch double-tracked and dieselized. Provisional traffic opened as far as Kilometer Marker 85 of the -line under construction between Karaganda and Karagajly Ore Mine. Rebuilding, modernizetion, dieselization and/or electrification of Moscow Ring Line. RR lines to be electrified in 1963. RR lines to be electrified in 1964. RR lines to be dieselized in 1963 and later on. SECRET.NO FOREIGN DISSEM IDeclassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part 1 - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM III. Soviet 7one of Occupation of Germany ? Rates increased in interzonal bus traffic. Registration of passengers discontinued in interzonal traffic. ? Boundaries of RR subdivisions of RR Division Berlin changed (See Annex 4). A total of 10 -Reichsbahn offices downgraded in West Berlin (See Annex 6). Suj:Jordination of Berlin-Tendenheide Station changed. Special Construction Management Berlin=Gruenau disbanded. Tasks of Reichsbahn Repair Shops Berlin=Grunewald and Berlin= Tempelhof. Construction of trackage south-east of Berlin=Schoeneweide switchyard. NeW Priort RR station to be put in service in lute May 1963: Roadbed of Berlin=Wannsee - Stahnsdorf line partly dismantled; another connection to Stahnsdorf possibly planned. New directives to be. issued for motor vehicle repair in East Berlin. Distribution of Reichsbahn districts and..numbering of RR divisions (See Annex 5). Maintenance shops for RA cars at Leipzig-Wahren and Oschersleben on the Bode River downgraded. Operational and coal situation of the Reichsbahn slightly eased. Military requirements of the Reichsbahn intensified by maneuver shipments in late April 1963. Imports via sea harbors. RR Line 201 rerouted between Berga=Kelbra and Heringen (lielme River). Bridge construction material stored in Hoyerswerda. Two types of electric locomotives for Reichsbahn under production at VEB Lokbau Hennigs.dorf. , Decommissioning of two prototype V-36 K narrow-gauge diesel locomotives. A total of 363 Reichsbahn freight ?train locomotives rebuilt to date. Reichsbahn passenger train rebuilding program., Decommissioning of Reichsbahn freight cars. First trip of Tourist Express. Personnel strength and pool of motor vehicles of VEB Motor Transport (Saab e River). Performances' of VEB Strassenbau (Road Construction) Halle Scale River) since 1)53. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 RUH iU tUKLIUN UWEivi -Road and bridge construction in Suhl district since 1961 (See Anne 7) Inclusion of Soviet Zone inland shipping in loading pallet exchange. Completion of first improvement stage of"Central Airport Berlin. Schoenefeld". 11.-18 aircraft serving the "Central firport Berlin.Schoenefeld"- Sofia route. Anklam commercial air base handed over to Deutschen Lufthansa (Soviet ?one). IV. Czechoslovakia Effects of severe winter still noticeable. Up to .mid-April 1963, freight transport arrears million tons. Further shortage of locomotives and RR cars. Broad-gauge track Velke Kapusany -Vojany to be November 1963. Electrification of Maehrisch Ostrau (Ostrava) Polish border line nearing completion. Electrifiation of Sillein (Zilina) - Jablunkov stretch begun. Figures on rolling stock deliveries to Czechoslovak State Railroads in 1963. Daily stock of damaged freight cars about. 12,000 units in late March amounted to nine completed by late - Petrovice n.K. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM 1963. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 4. ,r Sttlitt I 1W 1.-URI(i1 VISStM ,ernational?Transport Re _ec,ions 1. 'Transport Conferences and iVleetinge al)? !:t. an OSShD (Orgsnisazija Sschrudnitschestwa Shelesnych Dorog) prganization for the CooLeration of East Bloo Railroads) meeting in Kiev, the mechanisation and automation of the rail- road systems and the standardization of freight and passenger cars was discussed. (For organization and tasks of the.OSShD, see Annex 1). Between 2 and 6 April 1963, a meeting was held by the Transport Commission of the German-Polish Committee for Economic and Scientific/Technical Coop,,r,tion in ('-oerlitz. The discussion dealt with the division of tasks between tho different modes of transportation and with research and development of transports In Prague, the Technical Committee Railroad Transport Section, of the Standing- COMLCON Transport Commission held a 'conference on problems of the Common Freight Car Pool of the COME.CON member countries. (For Organization and tasks of the Standing COMECON Transport Commission, see Annex 2). 2. Transport Associations, .bgreements a) Polish Minister of Maritime Transport,Darsky, announced the planning of a comiton charter_apncy of...the .COMECON. countries.. for liners and tramp. steamers. In this connection, resolutions had been passed at a conference of Section 3 (Shipping) of the Standing COMECON Transport Commission in Bucharest between 4 and 11 December 1962. Through the coordination of tonnage requirements, dead-head running will .be reduced. This will also enable the East Bloc to cut the charter rates of third countries' tonnage which is still, heavily required despite its own shic-. building efforts, and to .get influence on the world ship cargo ? market. Austrian ambassador to Hungary, pr. Koller, elected Vice President of the DanubeC2mmission during the XXIst Session of the commission in 3udalpc:ct in mid-February 1963, expressed . the desire that West Germany should join the Danube Commission during 1963. The ccmmiss ion would be fully workable only with its membership. (For organization and tasks of the Danube Commission, see Annex 3). The putting in operation of Cosl:e Zubice (Bouhm.Kabitzen)? RR station, located opposite Furth i. Raid, as an interchange station (RR station where locDmotive engineers and train . crews are exchanged) has been postponed for the time .being to September 1963. (Beginnin{2 oL' winter timetable sectjc.n on SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM 29 September). Presumably the necessary construction prerequisite's, i.e. extension of a loading track, construction of a parking track, will not be completed by the original. deadline (26 May 1963) (See Transportation Summary for December 1962). P.ccording to recent information, the CSD (Ceskoslovenske Statni Drahy),(Czechoslovak State Railroads) increasingly uses German gendola cars for coal transports within Csechoslovaki and to other countries. The increasing requirement by Fast Bloc RR administrations of German Federal Railroads' oriother western railroads' cars that can be utilized for military purposes, or for the transportation of important industry armament, has been observed since the fall of 1962. II. USSR 1., Total Transport Planned Freight Movement in 1963 Freight turnover of all public modes of transportation is pinnned to amount to 2,254 billion t,/km in 1963, which is six per cent more than in 1962. In this volume, the individual. means of transport are to take the following share: ? Railroads 1,675.50 billion t/km (75 per cent) Motor Transport 122.87? ( 5.5 per cent)? ' Inland Shipping 122.87 H ( 5.5 per cent) Pipelines (rude 89.36 ( 4.0 per cent ? oil and crude oil products) High Seas Fleet 225.40 (10.0 per cent) Performances in passenger transport are to .increase by six per cent compared with 1962. The number of air passengers will increase from about 28 millions in 1962 to about 55 millions in 1963. Railroad Transport ' a) Organization The disbanding and/or merging of 11 of the 31 RR divisions was to be completed by 20 February 1963. SECRET KO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET NO FOREIGN DI$SEM ?:Eormer-R Divisions Present RR Divisions Location of - - :headquarters - ? Esthonia, Latvia? Baltic RR Div Riga ? Lithuania - Odessa Odessa Kishinev Odessa L2.erbaijan and Trans Caucasia Tbilisi Trans Caucasia ? Lshkabad and Tashkent ? Central Asia ? Tashkent ? South Sakhalin and -Far East' Par East .Khabarovsk :The rn?.mes of the other 20 railroad divisions are: Name ? ________ Location of Headquarters Dnyepr DnyepropotroVsk Donets Done oh -Gorki Gorki -Kazakhotan Llma Lia Kuybyshev Kuybyshev. 1Lvov Lvov :Moscow Moscow .1Horth ? Yaroslavl _North Caucasia Rostov October Leningrad .East siberia Irkutsk :South Kharkov Southeast Voronesh . South Ural Chelyabinsk Southwest hiyev j)verdlovsk Sverdlovsk' Transbaykal Chita Belorussia Minsk ?"'est? fAboria: Novosibirsk Volga Saratov b) :Operations (1) ?Beginning with the summer timetable on 26 May 1963, the ? permissible speed of express trains will be. increased to 160 km/h on the electrified I:oscow - Leningrad line and to 140 km/h on the Moscow - Minsk - "Brest Litovsk line. On the latter important east-west connection, passenger traffic will be carried out by diesel traction. lifter 1965, the total line is to be electrified, with the frost Litovsk - Orsha stretch to be electrified between 1966 and 1070. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 fOREIGH DiSsbvi ? - 1(2) In. early .1963,. the Kamenl- Idtayskaya (200 kilometers) stretch of the Central Siberian Magistrale was put into regular service. Trains arc hauled by diesel locomotives?Later on, the total Omsk - Irtyshkoe - Karazuk - Kamen,- Lltayskaya Barnaul line is to be electrified. ,Railroad Network 1 The total trackage of the North Caucasia RR Division (Headquarters at , Rostov) amounts to 2,906 kilometers including 1,031 electrified kilo- meters (30 per cent),. The following stretches have been equipped with 27.5 kV alternating currentt Rostov - LikhaYa (145 km) Kavkatskaya - Nevinnomyskaya (147 km) :Lrmavir Belorechenskaya (104 km). d) ,Line Construction 1? 1(1) During recent years, the Sverdlovsk - Bogdanovich - Vaga - Natsyvnyevska3ra(-0msk) line was double-tracked, equipped with semi-automatic block installations, and dieselized. !(2) Provisional traffic has been opened as far as Kilometer Marker 85 on the line under construction between Karaganda (Zolonichki) and Karegayly Ore Mine (250 km). The line is planned to be extended to Aktogai, the railhead of the Soviet/ Chinese "-friendship Linefl The 550 kilometer Moscow Ring Line is presently being rebuilt and modernized gradually. New tracks are laid, the roadbed is reinforced and the trackage of some RR stations is improved. Rebuilding is focussed Particularly on the western part of the ring which is to be dieselized by late 1963. Simultaneously, preparatory work .was begun for the electrification of the eastern part of the ring. nctual electrification work on this section is to start in 1964. The rebuilding is carried out on the following grounds: (a) To reroute transit freight traffic via the Ring Line and to increase the line clearance capacity of the Moscow. junction erea. (b) To relieve various RR stations of the individual Moscow RR areas frpm transit traffic. To electrify the total Ring Line. C) SECRET KO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM -Electrification (1) In the course of 1963,, electric the following RR stretches: Minsk 7 Olekhnovichi Shakhunya Kirov Perm - Shalya Maloyaroslavec --Zukhinichi Mironovka - Fastov traffic is to be opened on Khacepetovka - Krinichnaya . Yazinovataya Mariupol Yazinovataya -"Konstantinovka Likhaya Rososhl Nevinnomyskaya - Mineralinye Vody '11(stafa - Kirovabad Czerepanovo - Barnaul Artyshta - Altayskaya Novokutsneck -Mezhdurechensk NadezhdinSkaya Usurisk (2) In 1963, electrification RR stretches: Pastov - Molbunov on Minsk - Vilna line " Moscow - Sverdlovsk line Moscow - Sverdlovsk line Moscow - Bryansk line Dnyepropetrovsk - Lvov line Donets Basin Donets Basin Donets Basin on Rostov - Liski line Rostov - Baku line " Tbilisi - Baku line " Novosibirsk Barnaul line South Siberian Magistrale South Siberian Magistrale Vladivostok - ,Khabarovsk line tl It is under way on t Kirov - Baletsino ? Rososhr- Michurinsk - Ryatsani Sysran,- Rtishichevc Celinograd - Karaganda Medshdurechensk - Abakan Ta:yshet - Kezhemskaya e.following .on Dnyepropetrovsk Lvov line " Moscow-Sverdlovsk line " 'Rostov - Moscow line .Sysran'- Penza , Liski line Celinograd Lake- Balkhazh? line Novokutsneck - Abakan line Tayshet - Lena River line tt ? ? The above RR stretches are planned to be put in operation ? in 1964. f Dieselization (1) The following RR stretches are to be dieselized in 1963: SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 )tt;htl KO FOREIGN DISSEM 9 Leningrad.- Volkhovstro Cherepovec (-Vologda) Leningrad - Pskow - Abrene )ADwinsk) (Minsk-) Olekhnovichi - Kaliningrad -(Konigsberg) (2) In 1963, dieselized traffic will stretches: Mogilev - Zhlobin Orsha Etserishche Orsha Zurazh Vitebsk -.Bigozovo include the following ?on Orsha.- Korosten line " Orsha - Leningrad line " Orsha - Unecha line ." Vitebsk.- POlotsk -Dwinsk line III. Soviet Zono of Occupation of Germany 1. Interzonal Traffic and Berlin Traffic Situation a) Interzonal Traffic (1) On 1 April .1963, higher fares became .effective in interzonal bus transport between 'est Berlin and West. Germany. (2) The registration of passengers traveling in interzonal road traffic between West Berlin and West Germany, introduced in September 1962, has been discontinued. (See Transport Summary for November 1962). Berlin Traffic Situation (1) Structural Chchges of the Reichsbahn (a) The boundaries of the five Reichsbahnamtsbezirke (Ras) (subdivisions) of Rbd (Reichsbahn Division) Berlin, last drawn in September 1961 were changed in March 1963. The changes were probably conditioned by organizational .and supervisory necessities. The designation for the headquarters of Ra 2 was changed from Babelsberg (=Griebnitzsee) to 'Totsdam".(For map of RR Division Berlin,. sou Annex 4). (b) In December 1962, ten previously independent West Berlin offices (RR stations, freight .stations and one stop) ? were subordinated to other RR stations.(Sce Annex 6), Through this measure, the number of personnel and the? expenses of administration arc! obviously to be reduced as there is a continuous decrease .in S-Bahn and freight train traffic. ( 0 ) Since 1 March 1963, Berlin-Wendenhoide RR station is no,longer.subordinate to Borlin=Schoeneweide station but to Berlin=Rummelsburg station. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSENI Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM . - 10 - (d) "Special Construction Management Berlin-Gruenau" has ceased to be an independent office since late 1962. Its tasks have been taken over by "Investbauleitung Berlin 2". ? (e,) Reichsbahnausbesserungswerke (RAWs-RR repair shops) Gruenewald and Tempelhof, located in West Berlin, are listed as I.Class Offices only in the office records of Rbd Berlin. They are thus on the same structural level as a Ba (Bahn- betriebswerk -RR maintenance shop) or Bww (Bahnbetriebs- wagenwerk-maintenance shop for RR. cars). Borlin.Grunewald RLW predominantly repairs and inspects cars of the Pest Berlin RR system, or cars damaged on the West Berlin network. ? Gondola cars of series numbers 27 and 29 from the total Reichsbahn area previously underwent routine maintenance at Grunewald RAW. Since 1962, they are handled by Malchin and Dresden R21Ws. Berlin-Tempelhof RAW repairs and inspects locomotives from Grunewald Lw only. Locomotives of.construction-series 74 and 92.from.the total Reichsbahn area which previously underwent routine repair at Grunewald have been handled by Halle and Cottbus R2,Ws since 1961/62. Berlin=Grunewald and Berlin-Tempelhof RLWs are obviously. also serving as political strongholds of the West Berlin ED;- prior to the Berlin Senate elections, several electoral assemblies for West Berlin Reichsbahn employee's were held there. On the "Day of the Railroad Worker"(8 June), a meeting is planned at Tempelhof (2) Railroad Improvement (a) b 2, new RR installation for freight traffic is Under construction at Berlin-2,dlershof; it consists of eight to nine tracks and of a concrete end ramp and an abOut 100 meter long concrete side ramp both located in the southern part of the installation. The trackage is locatedsathwest of the line leading from Borlin.Schoeneweide to the southern stretch of the Berlin Outer Ring, between the southeastern end of Berlin=Schoene- weide switchyard and the Teltow Canal. The railroad bridge over the canal was enlarged. The construction of two other ramps has allegedly been planned. The now Priort RR station on the western stretch of the Berlin Outer Ring is to be put in operation with the beginning of the summer timetable (26 May 1963). SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 ( c) SECRET KO FOREIGN DISSEM Roils and ties of the stretch between the Toltow Canal (UU 764 073) and Stahnsdorf of the Berlin-.WannseeStahnsdorf line, dis- rupted at the 'West Berlin/Soviet Zone border since 13 August 1961, have been dismantled and piled up south of Stahnsdorf -RR station on the road to Potsdam. This roadbed material is allegedly to be used for the construction of a new Stahnsdorf- -Potsdam line. Conspicuously, Stahnsdorf RR statien is still in operation despite the discontinuation of train traffic on the line from Wannseo. (The station has merely been subordinated as a dependent office to Drewitz RR station, since 2_pril 1962). It is therefore possible that a substitute lino will be constructed on East German territory only to connect Stchnsdorf RR station with the Reichsbahn network. (5) Motor Transport and Roads A work :team of the East Berlin MUnicipal Council in cooperation with 3ozirk8diroktion Kraftvorkehr (DDE-District Management Rotor Transport) is drawing, up new directives for the repair of motor vehicles. The draft envisages an increase in efficiency by having the individual parts repaired. separately in special Workshops. Thus, all starters, generators and engines of trucks over 4-ton capacity and of buses can only be repaired by the OLW(Omnibus- und Lastkraftwagon Reparaturwerk - bus and truck repair shop). On the other hand, Pankow Car Repair Shop is to carry out the general overhaul of all engines of passenger cars and of trucke with loss than 4-ton capacity. Private repair shops and production cooperatives are to be incorporated in the nor organization of motor vehicle repair. The OLW started repairing generators and starters in early 1963 already. (b) The road surface of the Soviet Zone Autobahn stretch between the Koonigswegbruecko (bridge) (UU 774089) on the West Berlin/ Soviet Zone border and Dreilinden Control Point on West Berlin territory was repaired in Ifiarch 1963. This stretch had compared very unfavorably with the connecting West Berlin Autobahn ? stretch (approach road to the "Avus") repaired in the winter of 1962/63. (a) . Railroad Transport Organization and Structure (1) The district boundaries of the?eight Soviet Zone railroad divisions and their subdivisions are shown in Annex 5. (For boundaries of Railroad Division Berlin, sec Annex 4). SECRET KO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM - 12 - Tho,numbers of-the railroad divisions Berlin 1 Cottbus 2 Dresden 5 Erfurt 4 Greifswald Halle Magdeburg 7 Schwerin 1 6 are also designating -4 (a) Special passengez trains.(The second digit of the four- digit number of 51 special train indicr)tes the departure RR division, P 0479 originates from Erfurt Rbdi the first digit is always to be a zero). (b) Construction trns..(The first digit of th.Q three- digit number of LV construction train indicates the. home RR division of ouch trains, i.e. Construction Train 701 bels to the :Agdeburg Rbd) (Excepted are Reichsbahn. main construction trains which are not controlled by - RR divisions and which carry four-digit number, i.e. 1201). (2) Structural Changes (a) The former Leipz.ig-Wahren Bww (maintenance shop for RR cars) was dissolved in 1962 and Subordinated as branch shop to Leipzig Main Station Bww. (b) Oschersleben Bw (RR M-aintenance Shop) on the Bode River was downgraded to engine yard and subordinated to Halber- stadt Bw. b) Operations and Traffic (1) Operational Situation inspite of the considerable number of 73,000 RR cars forwarded on 51 March 19639 plan. arrears of the Reichsbahn-still amounted to over 12 days in late -ilSarch with the highest backlog of 13.7 days at Dresden Rbd. In early April 19639 traffic flow in Halle Rbd, particularly in the immediate area of Halle and on the.Rosslau.-Lutherstadt Wittenberg line, was so poor that it was feared that the difficulties would .affect the neighboring RR divisions. ? Shipments not forwarded in time consisted to a large part of. fertilizer and construction material. Fertilizer is mainly to be dispatched by Erfurt, Halle and Magdeburg Rbds. SECRET ko FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SEUET KO FOREIGN DISSEM - 13 - The flow of export traffic was also uneatisfactory,, particularly via Bad Schandau border station. The shortage of RR carsIxeady for loading was relieved and the turnaround-time of the rolling stock was reduced by the merciless reduction of the unloading time of the consignees. In mid- April 1963, a daily unloading performance of appr. 37,300 cars was achieved On 15 2,pril, appr. 36,650 cars could be loaded, which was 2,000 cars more than' the highest loading. figure in March. Before and after Easter the operation of a number Of commuter trains was discontinued because of changes effected in the working hours of large enterprises, as a result, of which the flow of holiday traffic was eased, including that between West Germany and West Berlin. During the Easter holidays, advantage was taken of the reduced commuter traffic and of the partly reduced passenger traffic to make good the arrears in freight transportation. The general operational situation was also 'easedby the more favorable weather conditions. (2).(a) Military :requirements of the Reichsbahn were low up, to the end ofthe second third of April, since training exercises were essentially restricted to the garrisons as in the preceding. years. During the last third of the month, intra- zonal military shipments increased because of training exercises of the GSFG in the letzlinger Heide-Altengrabow area. (3) (b) No special features were observed in military border crossing traffic, in April 1963. Imports via the East Zone sea harbors partly consist of military supplies (See Transportation Summary for March 1963 - further improvement of freight station and switchyard in Rostock) and to a large part of crude oil: The crude oil is shipped in tank car trains particularly from Rostock and Wismar .to the refineries in the Lausitz area and in Central Germany. c) Railroad Construction. ( 1 ) Rereuting of RR Lines Because of the construction of a laying-up basin for. the Helme River, the about 46 kilometer long Berga-Keibra - Heringen (Nelme) stretch of? Eine 201 is to .be rerouted. The construction of the new roadbed north of the previous stretch is under way since 1962. Auadhle ER station (PC 352 019) on theold stretch ? is to be closed and a new, station to be built immediately south of Goersbach (Pc 345 027) on the new stretch. SECKET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 I Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 MET t;O FOREIGN D1SSEM - 14 - .(2) Depot for Bride7e Buildin 11.aterial? Used but still serviceable equipment of iron bridges has been stored in a large shed near ?the railroad station at Hoyerswerda (Line No 162 r). The depot belongs to Cottbus Bruedkenmeisterei (bridge supervision and maintenance office).. The bridge material is probably primarily destined for the frequent reconstruction projects in the Lausitz lignite Mine district, but may possibly ? also be used as reserve equipment for the Oder and Neisse?River brids (See Transportation Summary for February 1962). Rollinp. Stock (11 Vkift Lokomotivbau Kektrotechnische Werke "Hans Beimler", lienningsdorf, is producing two types. of 16 2/3 kc alternating current ldcomotives for the Reichsbahn, namely Construction Series k-11 for fast passenger trains and E-42 for freight and passenger trains. The differences in the construction are to be found in the brake equipment, the transmission gearing, and in. the permissible rated speed (E-11: 1405 E-42:100 km/h). There is no difference in the outward appearance and in the electric equipment of the twO construction series. (2) The two Type V-36 K 360 PS narrow-gauge diesel locomotives, handed over by VEB Lokbau "Karl .Harx",Babelsberg, as prototypes to the Reichsbahn, in 1961, did not prove satisfactory parti- cularly because of their transmission. They were partly dis- mantled and parked at 7ittau Ba. It appears questionable if the design of this locomotives has been improved. in the meanwhile, and if the production has been resumed. - (3) Up to now, the Reichsbahn rebuilt 544 steam locomotives which is almost 10 per cent of its total stock. The rebuilt locomotives include 363 freight train locomotives-of Construction Series 41,? 50 and 58; the remainder were fast train locomotives of Construction Series and locomotives of Construction Series 39 for accellerated local trains (reconstructed to locomotives of new Construction Series 22).. The present use value of ?a rebuilt locomotive is assessed by the Reichsbahn at about 80 per cent of the value of a new locomotive, The costs of the rebuilding allegedly amount to 50 to 60 per cent of the initial cost of a new locomotive. The number of rebuilt passenger train cars totals appr. 2,400 so far and is to amount to 3,000 units by late 1963,. In 1963, Halberstadt RLT will include in its rebuilding program the production .of baggage and mail cars by using predominantly parts of old RR cars. SECaT O IOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SEC;IT 1.:04:, FOREIGN DISSEivl ?> 15 -.. (5) Decommissioning of Freight Cars The following freight cars are to be taken out of service by 1980: Class (Without statement Class Numbers of secondary designation) 0 04; 05; 12; 13; 20 23 0 25'; 29; 37; 38; 45; 46 63 64; 67 XX 90 50-01/69 :(for fuel) 53-20 (for acids and lye solutions) 54-25/26 (for chloride gas) (6) Tourist Express The first trip of the T tourist express "Tourex" was made in Czechoslovakia between 29 March and 5 1,.pril 1963. The home station of the train is Dresden Main station, (See Transportation Summary for February 1963) 3. Road.Traffic a) Motor Transport In Larch 1963, MED Kraftverker Halle (Saale) received five ? new, Ikarus buses. It now owns 60 buses and employs 90 motor vehicle drivers and over 30 conductors. The daily repair and reserve Quota is 20 per cent of the total pool of vehicles. b) Road Construction and Repair (i) During its 10 'years, existence, MED Strassenbau Halle (Saale) repaired abproximately 800 road kilometers at the expense of 2.9 million tons of construction. material. (2) Road and bridge construction projects observed since. 1961 in the Suhl district along the demarcation line (see , Transportation Summary for February .1963, para III, 4d) have been compiled in Lnnex 7. Corresponding statementS on the remaining East Zone districts along the demarcation line will be made, in th'e next transportatjor, SECRET k0 FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 ZiLlikt I NU VISSEM 4. Inland Shipping - After the East Zone Inland Waterways Shipping, in cooperation with the Reichsbahn, had carried out successfullY a main .test with loading pallets in the transloading of freight, the loading pallet exchange of the Soviet Zone was introduced in inland shipping . on 15 April 1963.(Pailets are loading devices collecting L.C.L. - (less than carload) freight to easily :transportable shipments. The pallets remain with the freight from the shipper to the consignee so that there is no,.h4ed to transship the L.C.L. fredght individually from one vehicle to another, i.e. also in the event of different modes of transportation being used.) Civilian Sir Traffic a) In early 1965, the first improvement stage. of the Soviet Zone Central Airport Berlin=Schoenefold", ,begun in 1959, was completed.. The project included a three kilometer long runway for jet aircraft and a new hangar. During the second improvement stage, a new dispatch center, an air freight yard, .and further :under- ground storage tan1 are scheduled to be built. b) Since early April 1963, Deutsche Lufthansa(Soviet Zone) has employed IL-18 aircraft instead of the previously used IL-14 for flights between Berlin-Schoenefeld Central Airport and Sofia. a) In early April l963, Ernst 'Iondt, Director of the Soviet zone Airport Mpmagement, handed over Anklam commercial airport to Karl Holland, Genelrfl Director of Deutsche Lufthansa (Soviet Zone). Eight 'aircraft of types AN-2 and L-60 are stationed in the new hangar of the airport. In?1963., they are to spread fertilizer and plant protectives on 130,000 ha of land which will be 56,000 ha morefthan in 1962. IV. Czechoslovakia Railroads 1. Operations aj In April 1963, the effects of the noticeable in RR operations From arrears in freight tranSportation tons. It. is planned to shift 4-5 transportation Quota to the State (trucks). severe winter were still early 1963 to mid-April, increased to nine million million tons of the railroads' Motor Vehicle Transport &Li ET LO FOREIGN D1SSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 A Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECUT O FOROON DISSEM -17- . b) The shortage of locomotives ahd RR cars -continued to increase. The pyrometric condition of the steam locomotives deteriorated 4 so much that the engines weretused up excessively and the. rate of repair increased correspondingly. Also the rote of damaged ? freight cars rose to about 8.6 per cent of the total freight car stock in late March 1963. 2. Line:Construction Vojany Heating Station to 'supply electric power to the East: . Slovek Ironworks under cc Str4ction. The power plant Will be heated exclusively by Rus lantbituminous coal. Since early 1962, a broad-gauge track has b 4nder construction from Velke Kapusany to the power plant for diet;coal supply to the plant. The . completion of the ? track,in liXding the construction of an engine shed, is scheduled for lata;ovember 1963.(See Transportation 4'? ? Summary for March 1962). t? Electrification Within the framework of the eletrification of the Hranice no Morave-PJlish -border line, the contact wire line was tested on the last stretch from Mdthr. OStrau(Ostrava) to the Polish border via Petrovice u karvine. Electric test traffic is expected to be opened soon 2n this stretch.(See Transportation Summaries for June,October 1962 and March 1963). b) Electrification of the Sillein(Zilina)-Jablunkov stretch ? of the Zilina-Oderberg(Ncvy Bohumin) line has been under way since April 1963 and is scheduled to be completed by late 1963. Originally, the entire line was to be completed by that date. However, the realization of this plan depends on the completion of the remodelling of Teschen(Cesky Tesin) RR Station, i.e. of the construction of the access to the double-track OstravaKuncice-Cesky Tesin line, and on the completion of the double- track Louky h.Olsy-Detmarovice line.(See Transportation Summary for December 1962). 4. Rolling Stock a) In 1963, the Czechoslovak State Railroads (CSD) are to receive the following rolling stock from Czechoslovak production plants: ? 40 Electric locomotives 134 Diesel locomotives 32 Diesel railcars 3,749 Freight cars. In 1963, the CKD Works in Prague will construct 170 diesel switch engines with 750 PS capacity for export to the USSR. The Lenin Works (former Skoda Plant) in Plzn (Pilsen) are to export over 100 electric locomotives to the USSR in 1963. However, negotiations are under way at present to induce the ? USSR to renounce the delivery since the CSD urgently requires the locomotives for its own purposes. SEW NO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 I Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET ro , 1) The number Of freight cars' needing repair increased to almost 12,000 per day which:is about 8,6 per .cent Of the total freight car stock Of-thei0SD..(See Transportation Sumimary for January 1963). SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM - ; Annex 1 to Transportation . Summary for April 1963 Organization for the Coueration of R4i1roads cpshp) I. .1:_.tory._ 1.: Transport Ministers' Conference)at Sofia, July i956: Agreement .to form an nrganizationsuacceding the SMPS/SMGS Association which .had been operating in the East Bide area since 1951, and succeeding ythe four technical commissions which had been active since early a 1956. 2. Conference of Ministers in Peking in May/June 1957: Foundation .of the OSShD; 12 member states:Thlbania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Kongolia,North Korea, North Vietnam,Poland, Rumania, Soviet 7ona of GerMany,'Hungary,UESR,((ugoslavia to be optionally invited on guest status). . 3. Organization operational 1 September 1957. Organization and Functions 1. Mantoing Body: Translort Ministers' conference Meeting annually at different places. Chair: Transport Minister of the host country. Work order: Agenda of the Ministers' Conference. CLuorum: Two thirds of the ministers present. Resolutions, to be passed unanimously, are binding. Negotiations conducted in Russian,Chinese,German. 2. Executive Body: Committee for Railroad and Motor Vehicle Transport Composition: One representative each of the member countries. Directorate: The chairman, his 'deputy, and a secretary. Headquarters: At present 63/65 Hoza, Warsaw 67. SEPS = 7og1aheniye Mezhdunarodnoye Pasagirskogo Sobshcheniye (Agreement on International Railroad Passenger Traffic). SMGS = 7,oglasheniye Mezhdunarodnoye Grozovoye Sobshcheniye (Agreement on International Railroad Freight Traffic). CET O FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 tt-iKt1 KU .U1SJtivl - 2 - nnex 1 to Transportation. Summary for April 1963 ' Working Set-Up: Committee memb'ers, experts and counsels representing the various wd,rk areas, editors of the OSShD Magazine, secretarial staff. Major Responsibilities: Prepar,ing ministers' conferences, directing commission activities, safe- guarding prompt and proper fulfillment of the.roc,tolutions passed by ministers' . confOrence, publishing the OSShD Magazine. and tile bulletins of the OSShD and 'collection of.resolutions and recommafiaters. 3. Subsidiary Bodies and their Functions ? The main task is accompllishedin the 11 commissions. Expert work teams dealf4ith sPecial problems. The commissions deal with the following4sections: 1 ? 4 I. 1 1 Passenger traffi4 (SMPS) Freight traffic C,SMGS)1 TII, Tariffs IV. Operations and bo:rder kta.tions V. Technical and scientific cooperation VI. Cars, car parts (gauge changing wheel set, automatic coupling), vehicle gauges and cleara:.ce limitations. (The Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) is responsible for work organization in Commission VI. VII. Safety installations and operating regulations. VIII. Tractive power and electrification. IX. Roadbed and building construction. X. Coordination of work of the OSShD with other international organizations. XI. Motor transport and roads. 4. Laws and Regulations., Work Schemes, Publications The activities of the OSShD are governed by: a) Laws and Regulations Rules of the Organization for. the Cooperation Cf Railroads. Standing orders of -the Ministers' Conference. Regulations of the Committee for Railroad and Motor Transport. SMPS (new edition of. 1 Juno 1960) with relevant rules 'of service and tariffs.i SMGS (new edition of 1 January 1960) with relevant rules ?of service and tariffs.; ? 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Effects About 00 per cent of the total freight. traffic of this area is. handled on the about 230,000 kilometer long rail system of the 12 East Bloc countries united in the OSShD. Railroad transportation is therefore one of the most important. sectors of the OSShD countries' economy and an important factor of military planning.. The 0S5hD covers all specill branches of railroad transportation and includes in its range pf action the tasks of the international organizations CIM,CIT,CIV,RIC,RIV, and bIC*. *) C.ma = Convention Internationale concernant le Transport des Marchandises ? par Chemins de E'er/ 1 International J'Igreement on Railroad Freight Transportation. 4 A .CTT = Comitl Internationaldes Transports par Chemins de 12er/ International Railr4d Transport Committee. CIV = Convention Internationale concernant le Transport dos Voyageurs at des Bagages par Chemins de 1:1er/ ? International Agreement on Railroad Passenger and Baggage Transportation RIC - Regolamento Internazionale Carozze/ Agreement on the Mutual Utilization of Passenger and Baggage Cars in International Traffic . SEMI' NO FOREIGN D1SSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET KO FOREIGN DISSEM 4 Annex 1 to 'Transportation - 'Summary for April 1963 RIV = Regolamento Internazionale Veicoli/ Agreement on the Mutual Utilization of ,Freight Cars in International Traffic. UIC = Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer/ International Railroad Association. There is no comparable organization with such comprehensive -functions available in the western countries. It is noteworthy, that. railroads -belonging to the OSShD are also Members of West-European transport organizations, but that no western country is a, member of the OSShD. In connection with the work and :effects of the OSShD it must be ascertained that all measures taken by this institution are decisively influenced by the USSR and are designed in the first place to meet Soviet requirements within the East Bloc. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET LO iFORIGN DISSEM ?Annex 2 to Transportation 'Summary for April 1963 Standing Commission for Transportation of COMECON *) I. History IXth Meeting of the Council at Bucharest, June 1958: Agreement to form an institute succeeding 4. Work Team for Transport Matters which had been operating within the COMECON area since 1950. 29 October to 2 November 1958, Meeting .of incorporators to organize the Standing Commission for Transportation of COMLCON, in Warsaw. Nine member states: .Albania **)', Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,Mongolia, Polamd,Rumania,Soviet Zone of Germany,Hungary, USSR. . Observer delegations at?conferencesoptionally admitted from: China, 'N-orth-Kore4, North-Vietnam. II. Oranization 1. General **) The Standing Commission for Transportation is one of 18 COMECON commissions. As a working group it makes proposals to the Meeting of the Council (highest ranking body within COMECON, consisting of delegations of the member countries meeting twice annually and passing basic resolutions) and to the 'Executive Committee (executive body composed of one representative each of the member countries and of experts who meet every other month to make current decisions and to 'exercise coordination and supervisory ? functions). 4 COMECON = Council for Mutual- Economic Aid /SEW = Soviet Economitch6sko VsaimopomoShchi 1 Albania was not mentiioned as a member country at the 17th Meeting of COLCON in Bucharest in late .1962. Political differences and lack of land transport connections with the remaining member countries may account for the absence of Albania from COLECON .transport commission meetings since that date... SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET KO FOREIGN DISSEM ,s 2 Annex 2 to Transportation . :-,ummary for.Apri1.1963. 2. O4ganization of Transport Commission - -a) .The chairman, delegations of the member c-)untries, secretariat, technical commissions and sections, standing:wOrk teams, temporary work. teams. . Directorate . Chairman: Polish Transport Minister Popielas; furthermore, thu chiefs of the delegations (Chief of Soviet 7ono delegation: Traffic Minister Kramer,. 4eputy:? TransportatioL Attach6 .at.the. Soviet Zone eMbassy-in.VidrdaW;,Prickfnu).. c) Functioning Bodies Special commissions and sections forealing with the indi- vidual technical .branches. Standing work teams for special tasks. Temporary work teams for transitory limited tasks. Secretariat, in Warsaw. Technical commission's and sections are available for railroad transport, railroad construction, tariffs, road transport, road construction, high seas shipping inland shipping, ship construct- ion, harbors, air transport, airport construction, telegraphy and radio, .production of moans of transportation... The main tasks of the COMECON Standing Commission for.Trans- portation are the planning and binding recommendation of measures to be taken for the development of transportation within. the COMECON area. They include in particular: Common transport research; - Preparation of long7turm transportation plans; Coordination of investment plans in the transport sector;.? Standardization and work division in the construction of means of 'transportation; Cooperation in transit traffic; Increase of transloading capacity of railroad stations of the gauge-changing area; Foundation of a common freight car pool of the East Bloc; Foundation of a common charter agency for navigation of the East Bloc countries; .. Coordination of railroad and superhighway construction; Development of in1L:nd shipping and motor transport; _Standardization of river and sea-going vessels; Cooperation in SECRET NO FOREIGN DI$SEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 tt?ikt I I\,U FUKLIVil 111JUM Annex 2 .to. Transportation Summary for April 1963. M.! Effects The COLIECON Standing'Coml:Assion for .Transpov.tation iswues. technical decisions in the form of recommendations and resolutions for all - modes of transportation and makes preparations. for carrying them out. This has brought about frequent disputes regarding competence. with the OSShD (Organization for the Cooperation of East Bloc Railroads) which is also in charge of railroad and motor trgInsport.. matters in the East Bloc. Just as the OSShD, the activities of the COMECON Transport Commission are designed to provide an East Bloc coUnterbalance to the integrating organizations of the West. The following' important principles reveal the main differences between the western and, eastern organizations: In the Test: - Voluntary union of members enjoyineequal rights. ? - .Modernization of the transport sector from commercial points. of view. - Strong competition of themodes of transport according to private economic considerations without special consideration of the general interests. ? Consideration of legal, financial and historical data when deciding,integration measures. I In the East: Union:in the interest of World Communism lead by the USSR, without consideration of the autonomous requirements of the mem1Ser countries 0, Increase of transport efficiency, exclusively with respect - to common economic prosperity and to political and military points of view. Fixing of targets according to long-term transPortation plans for the total.East Bloc area. ? Realization of these plans hindered by frequently noticeable restricted industry capacity and red-tape. 1 The main purpose of the COMECON Standing Commission for Trans- portation is also to provide the key position for the USSR in. ) the political, economic and military fields of the Communist world. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 ,.? 4 SECRET LO FOREIGN DISStm - 1 - I Annex3to Transportations Summary for April 1963 The Danube Commission I. History The 'Danube River, the second longest river in Europe (Volga is ? longest) is an important highway for ,traffic with South-East Europe. . It has a length of 2.,900 kilometers and drains an area of 8179000 Square kilometers between Southern Germany and the Black Sea. To regulate shipping on the Danube, various treaties have been concluded by Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania and the USSR, the riparian states of the river. The principal stagea of this development may be summarized. as.- follows: 1. 30 March 10561 Establishment of a European col,imission of the Danube and a comml4Ssion of the states situated on the river, pursuant to: a convention concluded within the framework of :the ? treaty of Paris, based on recommendations of the Vienna Congress. ? (Russia was not represented on these commissions) 2. 23 July 1921: The_156 convention was replaced by the Danube Statute, signed in Paris on the above date. An international commission on the Danube was established at Pressburg. In addition to the riparian states (excluding Russia), England, France, and Italy were represented on that commiSsion.as. "nonriparian states': ' 14 November 1936: Germany claimed full control o the river on its territory and resigned as a member of the intiernatienal commission of the Danube. 18 August 1948: A."Con;Tention Regarding the Regulation of Navigation on the Danube" (Belgrade Act) was signed. at Belgrade by Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, and Hungary, led by the Soviet Union; Austria. and Germany were not represented. As compared to the, Danube Statute .signed at Paris, ?the Belgrade Act comprised the following changes: a. limited area of application and b.. reservation of administration-of the river to the riparian states. .r.L,is "convention" is not recognized by France, .Great and the USA. 5. 11 to 17 November 1948: First conference of the Danube Commission at Galatz, called pursuant to 'Article 7 of the:7"Convention Regarding the Regulation of Navigation on the Danube". 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But since ;the German Federl Republic is not a signatory of the, Act, German ? users of the river, while being entitled to the protection granted by.1,rticle 2 of the Act, cannot exercise their rights through their own government, The Gorman Federal Republic has made consistent . .efforts to put.Ger= shipping on the Danube on a firm legal basis ',by 'concluding bilateral agreements. Such agreements were entered into with z:ustria (1952) and Yugoslavia' (1954 and 1956) in the course of intergovernmental negotiations on economic matters. Where inter- governmental agreements were impossible,owing to the absence of diplomatic relations, the governments involved authorized the shipping companies of their respective countries to settle certain commercial and technical questions. In the German Federal Republic, a "Danube Shipping Group", composed of "Bayerischer Lloyd,Regensburg" and tho_Deggendorf firm of Waller, was formed and instructed to enter into bilateral agreements with the state-owned shipping. companies and freight, carriers of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria,Rumania, Hungary,- and Czechoslovakia. In late 1962 and early 1963, bilateral relations of thiz kind were ?extended by additional agreements signed with: ,1 the state-owned Soviet Danube Shipping Company on Danube, shipping between Southern Germany and the Levint states, on combined river/rail shipping to Afghanistan and Iran, and on the ? participation of a Gorman shipping group in ore and coal shipments between the Soviet Union, Austria and Gc,.1-1r,ilny3 2. the state-owned Hungarian Danube Shipping Company "Mahrat" on an intensification of combined river/rail shipraents,by way of. Re- gensburg, of overseas transit fa-eight unloaded at German spa ? ports and designed for the Balkan states and of bauxite shipments from Hungary to the West. In the past, the German Federal Republic has been represented on the Danube Commission by observers without voting rights. Its delegation is composed of experts of the Federal Transport .i:iinistry, the Regensburg 7aterways and Shipping.Directorate,?nd the German Danube Shipping Group. - HUE 1\0 FOREIGN ESN Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved forRelease2013/02/14 : CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SL1?htl tUKtiuki uwaLivi 3 Annex 3 to Transportation Summary for April 1963 Thu question of the German Federal Republic joining the Danube Commission os a full-fledged member has been discussed for years :at tho conferences of the commission. Those considerations were given new vigor by remarks made by Dr.. Koller (Austria), the Vice ? President of the Commission, in mid-February 1963 to the effect that full-fledged membership of the German Federal Republic would be highly desirable to make the work of the commission fully effective. HThis desire may be assumed to ho based. on the following !considerations: Ls e full-fledged member, the German Federal Republic could be properly called upon to grant financial and technical toward the costly improvement of the Danube waterway. The commission. would like to influence, and,charo_in, the intensification of traffic on the Danube expected as a result of the improvement of the upper course of the river and the Rhine- Main-Danube Canal. The commission plans to unite all riparian states in a joint organization and issue safety and traffic regulations binding on all shippers on the Danube, regardless of nationality. (LO 1The following circumst'ances must be born in mind in considering !German. Federal Republic membership in the Danube Commission and :an assumption of all rights and ? duties resulting from such a member- ship: 1. The Danube 'Commission is not recognized by France,reat Britain, and the USA, which regard the Danube titatute of Paris ! and the International D. nube Commission of 1921 as the only' valid instruments, 'under international law, for regulating ;? shipping on the Danube. 9, The establishment of a new Danube Commission in 1948 at Soviet initiative is based upon tno territorial changes caused by World War II, prior to which the USSR was not a riparian state. 3.. The economic supremacy of the USSR in Eastern Europe, its 'possession of the mouth of the river, and its decisive influence on the other Communist members make the Danube Commission a.politically,ecenomibally, and militarily important instrument in the hands?of the Soviet Union. 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Secretariat, at No 25 Benczur utca in Budapest VI. - Technical commission and work teams. ? - River Directorate "Iron Gate" and Lower Danube River. - Observer delegations of experts from the German Federal Republic and optionally admitted from 211bania, Poland,Soviet Zone of Germony and the ECE (Economic (Jommission. for Europe Inland Transport Committee), attending conferences without right of voting.. b) Presidium - President Gyenizov, USSR. - Vice President holler, Austria. - Secretary Pisok, Czechoslovakia. - Managing Director ndrone, Rumania. c) Functioning Bodies Secretariat with the sections: Correspondence, record office, bookkeeping; administration, ? personnel; navigation; hydrometeorologfl technology; planning; statistics. - Technical committes, work teams. - River Directorate "Iron Gate" and Lower Danube River. The main tasks of the Danube Commission, meeting twice per year, are the discussion of the security of shipping and the . improvement of the navigable channel. The problems include mainly: ? SECRET ?NO FOREIGN D1SSEM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 i Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/14: CIA-RDP80T00246A068400240001-6 SECRET Mi VUKtibri maw' s. ? ti - ilnnex 3 to P.17/insportatioa Summary for April 1963 a. Regulation projects up to 1980, including a navigable channel with a depth of 2.70 meters'downstreanifrom Rogonsbutg and a depth of 3.50 meters downstream from Vienna. b. Construction of. power-plc,nts.with ovordamming of river obstacles.. c. Construction of locks. d. Issue of new pilot licences. e. Employment of Danube sea-going vess.cls of about 3,000 tons capacity. f. Issue of shipping regulations. g? Improvement of vessels and harbors IV. Effects The Danube shipping is being furthered intensively and is markedly developing. New industries built along the river require more transport facilities; shipping is modernized and improved, .shipbuilding is standardized and its costs reduced; the flow of traffic is planned jointly and subject to uniform regulations. The preparatory work for all these innovations is performed by the Danube Commission, which is c),: device to establish above all the Soviet supremacy in Southeast Europe. The interest of the German Federal Republic in Dahube?shipping could ho upheld in bilateral agreements between the shipping companies concerned despite the lack of diplomatic, relations with the Communist satellite countries and without the German Federal Republic being a member of the Danube Commission. In 1957, a first, and on 27 December 1962, another.'":,greement on the Common Transportation of Goods between the Danube har- bors of the Genian Federal Republic and Austria and the Sea Harbors called at by the SDGP Liners" was signed in Regens- burg. 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Summary for April 1963 List of Formerly Indopendent 'Tost Berlin Reichsbahn Stations Yards,etc, v!hich VTere' Subordinated to Other Reichsbahn Institutions Effective Dec 1962 Offices Which Became Dependent, and Offices AsSignod to Thou RR Station Borlin=Hermsdorf with ?RE Stations Borlin=Frohnau and Veidmannslust and with Stop Point 'Tittonau (North Line) RR Station Berlin=Reinickendorf with Stop Point, 7ittonau (Krommener Line) RR Station Berlin=Treptow,freight station, with RR Station Berlin=Goorlitz RR Station Jungfernheide with RR Stations Scrlin=Gartenfeld b.nd Bousselstrasse and with Stop Points Putlitzstrasse,Berlin=Siemonsstadt and W:ornerwerk ? 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