Although the planned development of transportation through 1970 is based on the modernization of existing facilities as well as the construction of new transportation lines (or the completion of projects underway), it will again be too diffuse and less effective because of the partially erroneous estimates of the volume to be handled by individual transportation routes and terminals and the insufficiency of funds. The estimates to date based on the overall economic progress of Yugoslavia and the foreign market indicate that transportation volume will be about 20 million tons in 1970. This is almost twice the 1963 volume. If this estimated volume is realized it will require not only increasing the capabilities of those port-transportation centers bearing the heaviest loads but also their modernization to speed up handling operations and their specialization to conform with the future level of foreign trade development. Thus it is of critical importance to establish not only the absolute volume, which can only be approximated, but also the points, or port complexes, which will handle the greatest loads of foreign trade and through freight business, so that they can be fully equipped.
East European Service Industries: Translations No. 571
1967
51 pages
Report
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Englisch