An item reported that the Romanian river fleet numbered around 208 barges divided in 3 categories.
Category I described as the best numbered 80 barges of 600-1.200 tons. Due to their age just around 30 of the barges could be used for the transport of minerals like bauxite shipped from Austria towards Ismail and Ren in Romania. Other barges could only be used for transporting cargoes with a lighter weight such as cereals.
Category II numbered 50 400-1.000 ton barges.
Category III numbered 80 200-1.500 ton barges all obsolete and not longer used.
In fact were in 1953 of the 208 barges just around 130 in serve and used for shipping Romanian and Soviet goods on the Danube and the other rovers. To solve the insufficient cargo capacity were shipyards at Turnu-Sverin (north 44-38, east 22-40), Giurgiu (north 43 53 east 25-77) and at Galati-Braila ordered to build new barges and in 1953 were 20 under construction and several others repaired. The above mentioned shipyards had a theoretical combined maximum building capacity of 55-1.000 ton barges which was not possible to realized actually lacking materials, personnel and an adequate organisation.
Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP82-00046R000400010006-0
Category I described as the best numbered 80 barges of 600-1.200 tons. Due to their age just around 30 of the barges could be used for the transport of minerals like bauxite shipped from Austria towards Ismail and Ren in Romania. Other barges could only be used for transporting cargoes with a lighter weight such as cereals.
Category II numbered 50 400-1.000 ton barges.
Category III numbered 80 200-1.500 ton barges all obsolete and not longer used.
In fact were in 1953 of the 208 barges just around 130 in serve and used for shipping Romanian and Soviet goods on the Danube and the other rovers. To solve the insufficient cargo capacity were shipyards at Turnu-Sverin (north 44-38, east 22-40), Giurgiu (north 43 53 east 25-77) and at Galati-Braila ordered to build new barges and in 1953 were 20 under construction and several others repaired. The above mentioned shipyards had a theoretical combined maximum building capacity of 55-1.000 ton barges which was not possible to realized actually lacking materials, personnel and an adequate organisation.
Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP82-00046R000400010006-0
