Czechosłowacka żegluga na Odrze w latach 1947-1957. Część I.
The Czechoslovak Navigation on the Oder River in the Years 1947–1957. Part 1

Summary/Abstract: After the Second World War the Czechoslovak Government attached importance to the navigation on the Oder River, which – in addition to the Elbe and the Danube – was to be an important route for international trade of the country. The trade negotiations with Poland, which had the whole navigable length of the river, were crowned with signing the Transportation Treaty on July 1st. It vested the Republic of Czechoslovakia with special powers in the Szczecin Harbour (free of duty zone) and a privileged position in the river and sea navigation. Following the stipulations of the Transportation Treaty there was another contract signed on May 12th, 1948 in Wrocław, an agreement to create a limited liability company, the Czechoslovak Oder Navigation Company (CSPO), which dealt with freight transport of merchandise goods on the Oder and its tributaries, as well as on the (German) canals connected to it; the Company also managed a shipyard and auxiliary workshops to repair its own shipping. The article presents the creation of the CSPO, its position in the Polish legal system, its inner structure, size and staff, organisational changes, rules of cooperation with the Polish Oder carrier, i.e. the legal, organisational and personnel conditions of the functioning of a foreign ship owner, against the background of developing the transport function of the Oder in the Polish-Czechoslovak relations.

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