An item dealing with the Romanian Danube harbours reported that most of the available piers and wharves in the harbour of Galati were not in a good condition. In fact ships usually were moored alongside barge to load or unload cargoes. Excluded lumber were all goods stored in warehouse. Lumber was not stored in the warehouses. Military unloaded the lumber transported by railroad and civilian labourers loaded the ships. There were one mobile crane, 4 cranes mounted on barges and operating with fixed heights and on 2 cranes near the shore available. The mobile jointed –boom crane had a lifting capacity of about 5 tons, of the cranes on the barges around 2 tons and of the shore cranes around 1 ton. The mobile crane operating with the cranes on the barges was able to handle around 700 tons cement18 hours.
Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A008300620005-0
Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80-00810A008300620005-0
