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FIGURE 7. Selected pipelines (U/OU) (Includes pipelines under construction)
Terminals Length (Miles) Diameter (Inches) Products Transported Capacity (Bbl/Day) Remarks
From To
East Germany-Poland border (near Linow) Schwedt 16 20 Crude 200,000 Initial East German segment of CEMA pipeline; completed in 1963.
East Germany-Poland border (near Linow) Schwedt 16 20 Crude na Parallel to initial segment of CEMA pipeline. More than doubles delivery of Soviet crude oil to Schwedt refinery
Schwedt Leuna 312 20 Crude 180,000 Completed in 1965. Known pumping station at Schwedt and Pothus. Parallel pipeline reported under construction.
Leuna Leutzendorf 2 20 Crude na Serves lubricating oil plant at Luetzendorf.
Leuna Zeits 20 na Crude na Completed in 1970; serves hydrogenation plant at Zeits.
Leuna Baehlen 20 na Crude na Serves chemical combine at Baehlen.
Rostock Schwedt 126 15 Crude/refined 150,000 Completed in 1967. Delivers crude oil to Schwedt refinery; returns refined products to port of Rostock for export.
Schwedt Ersfeld 50 12 Refined 62,000 East Germany's first significant petroleum product pipeline; completed in 1968. Pumping station at Heinendorf.
Ersfeld Dresden 106 na Refined na Under construction; completion date not available.
Magdeburg Schwarze Pumpe 154 na Natural gas na East Germany's only significant natural-gas pipeline; completed in 1971.
East Germany-Czechoslovakia border (near Betlitz) Leuna 20 56 Natural gas na East German portion of Tennagas system delivering Soviet natural gas to the West. Completed in May 1972.


Most of East Germany's maritime trade, which in 1972 amounted to a total port cargo turnover of some 15.9 million tons, is conducted through its major ports. Rostock (including Warnemuende) handles about 60% of the tonnage—about six times the amount handled at Wismar, the second leading seaport. At Rostock (Figure 9) an extensive program of expansion during the past decade, including a completely new deepwater port, has made it one of the prime seaports in the Eastern European Communist countries. Its modern facilities include equipment and storage areas specially designated for containerized cargo, a new and well-equipped petroleum-transfer harbor, and two major shipbuilding yards. Further development of the port may include a new and more efficient specialized container terminal and, in the roads outside the port, construction of an offshore oil terminal capable of accommodating supertankers. Wismar handles mainly bulk cargoes (Figure 10) transferred directly between ship and railroad car; it is also the site of one of the most modern shipbuilding yards in East Germany. Stralsund, the third ranking seaport, is accessible only to small oceangoing vessels but is a key rail center and site of an important shipyard. Sassnitz, important as a terminus of the train ferry between East Germany and Sweden, is an active fishing port and site of a naval operating station. Peenemuende is primarily a naval operating base. The minor ports handle commercial cargoes, accommodate naval vessels, and serve shipbuilding and repair


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