Communications and transit > Enquiry on national public works

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The traffic on the Vistula amounts to 500,000 tons and represents a total of 150 million
ton-kilometres.
An analysis of the present railway traffic, which in 1929 amounted to 85,862,000 tons,
shows that the Vistula and the other navigable waterways might take over at least
10 million tons of goods, or 12 % of the total traffic from the railway system (30 % in the
direction of Germany, 40 % in the direction of Russia).
In order to complete the South-North route over its entire extent between the
coal-field and the mouth of the Vistula, the following works would have to be carried out :
1. Canal between the coal-field and Spytkowice.
2. Canal between Spytkowice and Cracow.
3. Additional conservancy works on the Vistula between Cracow and the mouth
of the San.
4. Conservancy works on the Vistula between the mouth of the San and Otloczyn.
5. Construction, on its tributaries rising in the Carpathians, of a number of
reservoirs with a total capacity of more than 300 million cubic metres in order to
protect the inhabitants of the districts threatened by dangerous floods.
These reservoirs, together with the feed reservoir at Wlodawa, on the Bug (see
below), with a capacity of 500 million cubic metres, would ensure a minimum flow
of 500 cubic metres per second on the Vistula below the Bug.
6. The Warsaw-Malkinia Canal with hydro-electric power stations generating
30,000 h.p. and an annual output of 200 million kw. h.
7. Conservancy of the Bug, below Brzesc, with a feed reservoir of 500 million
cubic metres capacity, built round the lakes near Wlodawa.
8. Reconstruction of the Royal Canal between Brzesc, on the Bug, and Pinsk.
The above brief account of the state of the navigable waterways in Poland, their
conditions of operation and the highly important part that they are probably destined to
play in the life of the country, justify the conclusion that, being extremely backward in
this respect, Poland has now every reason to take a keener interest in inland navigation
questions.
(g) MARITIME PORTS.
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Zloty
From J anuary 1st, 1929, up to date, maritime hydraulic works, such as
the construction of docks, breakwaters, wharves, landing-stages for passen¬
gers in the ports of Gdynia and Hela and along the Polish littoral were
undertaken to a total value of 65,700,000
Port warehouses, service buildings for the maritime prefecture, dwelling-
houses, administrative and industrial premises, such as workshops, garages,
luggage depots, waiting-rooms for workers, public conveniences, etc., were
constructed to the value of 16,200,000
For the construction of roads, railways, viaducts, water-supply works
and water mains and for digging and levelling, expenditure amounted to 9,000,000
For 38 harbour cranes, the expenditure was 8,200,000
This brings the total value of the works carried out to 99,100,000