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Sunday, 24 September 2017

The Albanian merchant marine according to an American intelligence report dated 15 March 1950

An item reported that the merchant marine had a total tonnage of around 2.500 tons although none of these were steamships, so apparently just sailing vessels. The fleet consisted of:
12 wooden vessels built in Italy of the Liountress type of varying tons, 2-60 tons, 2-30 tons and 9-20 tons.
20 vessels , mostly of the Italian Trampakolo type of varying tonnage namely 1-300 tons, 2-250 tons, 3-100 tons and 14 between the 50-100 tons.
9 sailing fighting boats [(fishery?], made in Italy with a tonnage of 50-70 tons.

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, Document number CIA-RDP82-00457R004500130007-5.