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FLD00200060

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ON BOUTE 2

6, 24, 27, 28, 31, 44, 45, 47, 53, 58, 66, 67, 68, 76, 77, 104, 129, 131, 132, 141, 159, 161, 164, 172,
177, 195, 205, 207, 209, 213, 233, 236, 259, 304, 318, 321, 323, 327, 393, 402, 410, 412, 413, 416, 420,
438, 488, 489, 491, 496, 497, 498, 500, 503, 506, 507, 509, 510, 512, 519, 520, 526, 539, 542, 547, 554,
561, 562, 570, 571, 574, 576, 577, 596, 607, 608, 613, 617, 621, 636, 675, 676, 677, 681, 780, 787, 786,
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O ROUTE 2

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ON ROUTES 3&4

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SUBMARINE

HAZARD

DEFENSE COORDINATION

PANAMA AND FLORIDA
CANALS

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U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943-0-85442

Area A, the eastern seaboard States, is the principal consuming and manufacturing area, while area B, the Mississippi Valley, is the chief producing area. Areas C, D, E, F, and G are next in order from the supply point of view. The raw materials produced in all these areas are listed at the left of the chart. I wish to offer this chart for the record.

The principal logistic problem is the transport between areas A and B, and between areas A and C. Transport between area A and areas D, E, F, and G is only of relatively less importance. Eighty percent of all transport is between A and B, and the maintenance of this transport is our chief problem. Normally, this transport is afforded by rail and by coastwise vessel. At present, coastwise traffic is suspended, and all freight must move overland.

Likewise, freight from areas E and F and a large part of that from G could move by vessel to the Gulf coast, and thence overland to A, thus further burdening our rail system.

With the completion of the link across Florida, a large part of the tonnage which formerly moved coastwise between A and B will be able to move via the intracoastal canal, as well as the tonnage originating in E, F, and G, which could be transshipped to barges at Gulf ports.

MOVEMENT OF VENEZUELAN OIL

At this point I desire to call your attention to the fact that the safest and only practicable present route for oil from Venezuela to Atlantic ports of the United States is to a Gulf port and thence overland to the north and east. If we have to get more petroleum to the Atlantic seaboard than our own fields can produce under existing conditions, Venezuelan oil could move to our Atlantic coast via the comparatively safe Gulf waters and thence, by transshipment and barges, via the intracoastal waterway to the east. Here is reasonably satisfactory insurance against an insufficient supply of our own.

POTENTIAL WAR SERVICE OF CANAL

Some idea of the potential war service of the barge canal can be gained by remembering that in the year 1941 approximately 23,000,000 tons of dry cargo moved coastwise between A and B, and that if the fleet of 1,000 barges and 334 tugs suggested by the Chief of Engineers were duplicated for dry cargo, it would carry 27,000,000 tons. In other words, that number of dry cargo barges with tugs could restore the entire coastwise traffic over the intracoastal route, which formerly moved between these areas by ocean vessel.

EFFECT OF WAR UPON COASTWISE SHIPPING

If the committee will now turn to the chart marked "4 of 8," there will be seen the former coastwise routes pursued by traffic between these Each dot represents an actual ship. The numbers at the left each relates to a ship. The name and description of the ship will be found opposite its number on pages 7 through 24.

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