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Title:
Foreign shipping to North Vietnam in April 1967
Date of Creation:
May 1967
Date of Declassification:
April 13, 1993
Type of Document:
Intelligence memorandum
Level of Classification:
SECRET
Status of Copy:
SANITIZED
Pagination, Illustration:
22 p.
Abstract:
Record volumes of food and general cargo imports, a near-record volume of total imports, and the lowest volume of exports in the last 28 months highlighted North Vietnam's identified seaborne foreign trade in April. Ships continued to discharge at Haiphong without undue delay, despite the exceptional volume of deliveries in March and April. No shipments of arms or ammunition were detected. In april, 37 foreign ships called at North Vietnam, a slight decline from the level of the first quarter 1967. Identified imports totaled 141,500 tons, only slightly less than the record volume delivered in March. Steel products, construction equipment, trucks, barges, machinery, rubber, and coking coal were the principal components of of the record 65,300 tons of miscellaneous and general cargoes. The 37,300 tons of bulk foodstuffs delivered in April brought the total of these imports in the first four months of this year to 108,800 tons, compared with 77,600 tons in all of 1966. Only 13,000 tons of petroleum were imported, compared with an average of nearly 26,000 tons a month in the period December 1966 - March 1967. Seaborne deliveries of petroleum, however, are expected to exceed 26,000 tons in May. Shipments of all major categories of seaborne exports in April were below 1966 levels. Sharply curtailed coal shipments -- the result of air strikes against coal facilities and power plants in February and March -- were the principal cause of the extraordinarily low volume of exports. A comparison of data of the first quartes of 1965 and 1967 reveals a significant decline of the role of the Free World as a supplier and a carrier of goods to North Vietnam. In contrast, the volume of shipments to North Vietnam from Eastern European countries increased more than four times during the period, and imports from the USSR and Communist China, the principal suppliers, more than doubled.
Indexing Terms:
Declassified Documents Reference System Location:
1993-003064
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