(ESTIMATED PUB DATE) SHIPPING TO CAMBODIA IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1968

Created: 12/1/1968

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Intelligence Memorandum

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Foreword

This memorandum analyzes the pattern of foreign shipping to Cambodian ports to help in determining whether arms or military-related goods arethe Viet Cong through Cambodia. It updates CIA/ERhipping to Cambodia in the Second QuarterECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEM, and is the fifth report writtenuarterly basis.

The time lag between the end of each quarter and the date of publications in this series is theof_ delays in the receipt of the Bulletin of the Hixed Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture of Cambodia, an important source of data on ship arrivals and cargo deliveries.

The data in this memorandum are preliminary andbe modified as additional information becomes available. For the purposes of this memorandum, Yugoslavia is considered toountry of the Free World. Cargo weights are expressed in metric tons. Tha term imports, as used in this memorandum, refers only to imports by sea. Because of rounding, components may not add to the totals shown.

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCi Directorate of Intelligence8

INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM

Shippingtoodia in the Third Quarter8

Summary

There were at least two deliveries of military cargo to Cambodia in the third quarteroviet ship arrived at Sihanoukville on ulyons of military aid materiel from the Soviet Union, and inrench ship unloaded tanks andons of military equipment from Western Europe. ossible military shipment,ons, arrivedhinese ship in August.

Total shipping activity dropped from the very high level of the second quarter. Shipn the second quartern the third quarter, and imports droppedonsons, apparently for seasonal reasons. In the third quarter, for the first timemports at Phnom Penh exceeded those at Sihanoukville0 tons. Free World ships madeewer calls and discharged less cargo than in the previous quarter. Communist ships, which visit only Sihanoukville, also made fewer calls but unloaded more cargo than in the second quarter. More thanercent,ons, of imports came from Free World countries; theons, more than one-half of it unidentified, came from Communist China and the Soviet Union.

Note: This memorandum was produced solely by CIA. It aas prepared by the Office of Economic Research and information on ship arrivals wets coordinated uith the Naval Intelligence Command. '

Ship Arrivals and Imports by Sea

calls at Cambodiann the second quartern the third quarter. Most of tho declineFree World ships, which madeewerpercent cf total calls were atandercent were at Sihanoukville. Cambodian ports decreased fromons in the second quarter toin the third. This drop appears to beas imports have fallen tothe third quarter for three consecutiveof cement, petroleum, and coal all declined.

Shipping to Sihanoukville Ship Traffic

calls at SihanoukviHe decreasedin the second quarter ton the Free World ships mostly French,Greek, Japanese, and Liberianadef

thealls (see Eight of these calls were by ships under charter to Communist China. There were six calls by Communist ships: three Chinese, two Soviet, and one Polish. Two Communist shipsone Soviet and one Chinesearrived in ballast to load lumber and rice for North Vietnam and China. The other Chinese ships discharged foodstuffs,cargo,ossible consignment of aavp.unition. The second Soviet ship deliveredcargo, and the Polish cargo liner unloaded cement.

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Seaborne imports to Sihanoukville fell fromons in the second quarter0 tons in the third quarter, the lowest level of imports since the third quarter. The absence of asphalt, coal, and petroleum imports accounted for most of the decrease. The petroleum deliveries in the first two quarters were mostly diversionsby closure of the Mekong River. Crude oil imports to Sihanoukville are anticipated in the fourth quarter after the new refinery near the port is opened.

The composition of imports to Sihanoukville during the first three quarters8 and the

third quarters shown in the following tabulation:

Thousand Metric Tons

1st Utr ^ndOtr jrcTwtr

Military

and explosives

products

and pyrites

general cargoes

:

a/

5

1

possible military aargo delivered by th Fo-Shan and an unknown tonnage of tanks delivered by the Nausica.

ons ofercent of total imports to Sihanoukvillearrived directly from Communist ports during the third0 tons in the first quarter0 tons in the second. The largestons, carte from Communist China, and theons came from the USSR. Imports from China included medicines, foodstuffs, chemicals, and metal products; imports from the USSR consisted almost entirely of military cargo. Sixty tons of additional cargo of Soviet originmostly chemicals, metals, and general cargoeswere delivered to Sihanoukville after transshipment at Singapore.

Imports from Free World countries dropped0 tons in the second quarter0 tons in the third quarter, less than one-half the average for the first two quarters Approximately

ons) of these cargoes were

loaded in Asian countries, and theons) came from Western European countries (see Deliveries from the Free World included foodstuffs, chemicals, and cement from Singapore, India, Western Europe, and Thailand; and metals and other general cargo from Japan, India, SouthWestern Europe, and Singapore.

Military and Military-Related Cargoes

least two military shipmentsoneUSSR and the other from Western Europein Sihanoukville during the thirdSoviet ship Svoboda arrived onulyons of military equipment, theunder the new agreement signed within The cargo, variouslyto include HIG aircraft, armoredartillery, and ammunition, wasthe Pochentang military airbase at Phnomto the Longvek supply depot. Inusica delivered civilian goods,quantity of tanks, andons of tankWestern Europe. The Chinese ship Foons of military cargoin August. Although it is possible thator small arras were discharged, thetenuous and the actual amount is unlikelyons. Small quantities ofgoodsmedicines and dry cell batteriesdelivered to Sihanoukville in the third quarter.

Unidentified Cargoes

percent of the0 tons ofcargoes discharged at SihanoukvilleCommunist0 tons) andons). The remainder was loaded

at Western European0 tons) and0 tons). Some of the commoditiesmostly metals and automotive partshave been identified, but their quantities are not known.

* The second delivery under this new aid agreement arrived on the Soviet skip Partizanskaya Slava on II October. The shipment consisted of ZI? casesons) of unidentified military equipment.

Shipping to Phnom Penh Ship Traffic

9. Ship calls at Phnom Penh declined fromn the second quarter ton the third quarter. Forty-nine calls were made by tankers andalls by dry cargo ships. Ships of six Free World countries called during the quarter, but Panamanian andships predominated, accounting for almost two-thirds of the arrivals (see Table

10. Imports to Phnom Penh dropped in the third quarter0 tons but were well above first quarter lovels (see As shown in thetabulation, imports of petroleum accounted for most of the decline in total imports:

Thousand Metric Tons

Ufr1

Utr

gtr

Qtr

products

and pyrites

and explosives

general cargo

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11. Deliveries of petroleum, which made upercent of total imports to Phnom Penh, fell from tho abnormally high level0 tons in the second quarter0 tons in the third quarter. French, Cambodian, and Panamanian tankersmost of the petroleum from Shell storage facilities near Saigon and from the Ssso storage facility on the Indonesian island of Bintan. Dry cargo ships delivered moreons ofin drums.

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of dry cargoes through Phnomtons) were slightly below those inquarterons). All ofcarried by Panamanian, Singapore, Japanese,ships. More than two-thirdsons)cargoes cane from Singapore and Japan;ons) came from Hong Kong.

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ons) of theat Phnom Penh was unidentified. Allcame from Southeast Asia.

Table 1

Cambodia: Merchant Ship Arrivals and Cargo Discharged, by Port a/ First, Second, and Third8

Cambodia: Merchant Ship Arrivals and Cargo Discharged at Sihanoukville

and Phnom Penh, by Plag a/ Third Quarter

Cargo (Metric Tons)

b/

China

World

20

Kingdom

Including only arrivals of seagoing ship* from foreign porta; excluding arriv-alo from Cambodian ports*

b.mail volume of cargo in transit for Laos and petroleum deliveries upriver tc the Cambodian ports of Kompong Cham and fonts Bet.

Cambodia: Cargo Discharged at Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh

by Country of Loading a/ Third8

Country of Loading

Communist

Communist China USSR

Free World

Belgium Prance

West Germany Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan

Netherlands

Singapore

South Vietnam

Thailand

Yugoslavia

Unidentified Europe

Unidentified

Total

Port

Diseha

k* ions

Penh

390

In most cases the country of loading is the same as the country of origin^ but in some oases it is the country at which the cargo was off-loaded for transshipment, b. mall volume of cargo in transit for Laos and petroleum deliveries upriver to the Cambodian porta of Kompong Cham and Tonle Bet*

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