An
item reported that the Czechoslovakian Oder Navigation Company (CSPO) operated
around 100 barges of 350-900 tons cargo capacity and 21 tugs with a horsepower
of 200-750hp on the Oder. The tugs were divided over 3 stations, namely Kozle
(10), Wroclaw (6) and Szczecin (5) in Poland. The Czech and the Polish vessels
were part of a common pool. Czech barges and tugs could be identified by a
combination of the letters CSPO and four digit numbers for the barges and the
ships name for the tugs, painted in black on a white background. Furthermore
was on the funnel (s) of the tugs a red stripe and one blue star painted. There
were no longer German sailors employed on the Czech Oder River Fleet in
contrary to the Elbe River Fleet.
Source
The
report was published on www.archive.org, document number
CIA-RDP82-00457R006200770012-0
