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Volume 17 NOVEMBER, 1973 No. 11

Port CommissionersAnd Staff

FENTRESS BRACEWELL, ChairmanW. D. HADEN, II, CommissionerJAMES W. FONTENO, CommissionerMas. MARCELLA D. PEARY, CommissionerWAaNER F. BROCK, Commi~sionerGEaRCE W. ALTVATEa, Executive DirectorC. E. BULLOCK, General J~anager--

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AdministrationDAvzo C. REDFORD, CouasdMICHAEL SCORCIO, Executive Secretary

tO the Port CommissionVAUCHN M. BRYANT, Director ol

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CONTENTSPort of Rotterdam Promoted By Group ............................... 8

Brazilians Study Importing and Exporting ................................ 10

Council of Seamen’s Agencies Meets Here ............................. 12

This Man’s Companies Cover The Waterfront ........................... 13

Korean Mission Welcomed ............................................ 14

Bulk Plant Expecting Record ........................................... 15

Oklahoma Shippers Entertained By Port ................................. 16

Port of Houston Snap Out Directory .................................... 19

Three New Consular Officials Posted Here .............................. 23

Statistics ........................................................... 24

The Houston Port Bureau Reports ...................................... 25

Sailing Schedule For General Cargo Ships .............................. 36

THE COVERThis beautiful color photo shows the Port of Houston’s Bulk Materials Handling

Plant in full operation as it works toward setting a new record for the year. Formore about this installation see Page 15.

The Port of Houston MagazineTED SUtSERLIN, Editor

Published monthly by the Port of Houston Authority, the PORT OF HOUSTONMagazine is distributed free to maritime, industrial and transportation inter-ests in the United States and foreign countries. This publication is not copy.righted and permission is given for the reproduction or use of any originalmaterial, provided credit is given to the Port of Houston. Additional informa.tion, extra copies or advertising rates may be obtained by writing the PORT orHOUSTON Magazine, 3901 Westheimer, Houston, Texas 77027. ~ 0

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A delegation of prominent Rotterdam maritime andgovernment representatives promoting the Rotterdam Port

Promotion Council was in Houston last month and spent threedays here, including visits to the Mayor’s Office, the Chamberof Commerce and the Port of Houston and the Ship Channel.

The group was headed by Dr. J. A. Reus, President of theRotterdam Port Promotion Council and Managing Directorof Steenkolen Handels-Vereeniging, N.V., and by Dr. H. J.¥iersen, Deputy Mayor of Rotterdam and Chairman of the

Committee on Port and Economic Affairs. Others in the groupincluded leaders in the fields of Port Administration, labor,

banking, grain handling, barge traffic, railways, containeriza-tion and from the Chamber of Commerce.

M. van der Sande Lacoste, Managing Director of theRotterdam Port Promotion Council, arranged the group’sprogram, which also included visits to New Orleans andNew York. While here the members visited the Manned

Spacecraft Center and were hosts to more than 100 Houstoninternational traders at a seminar and luncheon in the

World Trade Club at which they spoke and answered questionson all phases of activity in the world’s largest port and

showed a special film on Rotterdam and its amazingdevelopment over the last two decades.

Scenes are of some of the activities of the group while inHouston.

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The first visit of the Rotterdam group was tothe offices of Mayor Louie Welch, where theypresented a specially struck medal of the Port ofRotterdam and were, in turn all given keys to theCity of Houston. Delegation Leader Reus, right,and Deputy Mayor Viersen, center, also receivedhonorary Houston citizenship certificates.

A. D. J. Brantenaar, Executive Secretary Generalof the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce, spokebriefly at the Houston Chamber of Commerce fol-lowing a presentation by Felix Prieto, right, Di-rector of the Chamber’s World Trade Department,who addressed the visitors during a visit.

At a morning seminar in the World Trade Clubon the second day of their visit, the Rotterdamgroup fielded questions from the floor on allaspects of Rotterdam’s port activity. Here F. Swar-touw, President of Europe Container Terminus,talks on container-handling, flanked by a few ofthe panel participants.

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The Port of Houston’s Executive Director, GeorgeW. Altvater, left, with Dr. J. M. C. Hagenaar nextto him, Deputy Managing Diirector of the Port ofRotterdam. Also shown are I)r. F. J. L. Baltussen,of the Board of Directors of Amsterdam-RotterdamBank, and Albert H. Liedts, Operations Managerof the Board of Directors of Amsterdam-RotterdamContainer Marshalling Yard who took the groupon a tour of that facility.

The Port of Houston’s General Manager-Admin-istration, Richard P. Leach, second from right,looks over a map of the Port of Houston withRotterdam Deputy Mayor Viersen, right, and Mrs.Drs. N. Smlt-Kroes, a member of Parliament andmember of the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce.At left is M. van der Sande Lacoste, ExecutiveDirector of the Rotterdam Port Promotion Council,who organized the visit.

Port of Houston General Manager-OperationsC. E. Bullock, second from left, is shown here onthe SAM HOUSTON with Dr. P. Boender, Boardof Management of The Netherlands Railways, andF. Swartouw, President of the Europe ContainerTerminus, N.¥.

On board the SAM HOUSTON, DelegationLeader Dr. J. A. Rus, left, is shown with thePort of Houston’s Executive Secretary to the PortCommission, Michael Scorclo, P. J. G. Furnee,President of the Graan Elevator Maatschappij,N.V.; Dr. L. J. Pieters, President of the RotterdamPort Employers Association, and the Hon. H. A.Hoogendoorn, Consul General of The Nether.lands in Houston.

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A. J. M. Van de Ven, center, MaintenanceSuperintendent of the Port c f Houston and, him-self a native of The Netherl[ands, is shown withDr. Brantenaar of The Rot’Perdam Chamber ofCommerce; J R. Curtis, Senior Terminal Managerof the Port of Houston Autharity; Dr. M. van denBos, Managing Director of the Europese WaterwegTransporten, N.V., and W. D. Dunnahoe, TerminalManager of the Port of Houston.

NOVEMBER, 1973 9

BRAZILIANS STUDY IMPORTING AND EXPORTINGA group of nine Brazilian technical

experts in the export-import field visitedthe Port of Houston in October underthe auspices of the Technical AssistanceProgram of the Agency for InternationalDevelopment of the U. S. Department ofState.

Their two-day program here and else-where in the United States was workedout by the Trade Union Exchange Pro-grams Division of the Bureau of Inter-

national Labor Affairs of the U. S. De-partment of Labor, and on the local sidein Houston by the U. S. Customs officeand the International Relations Depart-ment of the Port of Houston Authority.

Members of the nine-man team werechosen by the Brazilian government tostudy the construction and managementof customs warehouses and to obtain acomprehensive understanding of U. S.Customs organization and operational

procedures. They also studied loadingand unloading equipment at the variousports visited, especially in regard to thehandling of containers, and the tech-niques of classifying and appraising im-ports as well as collective bargainingagreements concerning dock labor.

While here the group toured U. S.Customs facilities, landside operations atthe Port of Houston Authority, had atrip on the Ship Channel aboard the in-spection vessel SAM HOUSTON andwere guests at a luncheon sponsored bythe Delta Lines and tile Roberts Steam-ship Agency, agents for the Lloyd Bra-sileiro Line, and also at a luncheongiven by the Port of Houston Authority.

Port of Houston Executive Director George W.Altvater met with the Brazilian group when theycalled at the Port’s Administration Building for adiscussion of containerization, and he is shownhere addressing the visitors with State Departmenttranslator Neif Calixto at right.

At the U. S. Customs office at the Port ofHouston docks the Brazilians gathered with Cus-toms Inspector Anthony R. Martinez, second fromleft, who accompanied them during their entirevisit to Houston. The photo was taken just beforethe group visited the grain elevator, and, later,the Sea-Land Service, Inc., facilities nearby.

Inside the Sea-Land Ioading-unloading shed,Terminal Manager Patrick M. Morrlssey of SeaLand explains a point to Raymudo Bastos RibeJraof the Brazilian Commission of Tariffs and Com-merce, and Luis Paulo Pretti Miranda of the Ex-portation Department of the Department ofForeign Commerce, both of Rio de Janeiro.

During the Brazilian group’s visit to the Sea-Land Service’s facilities, they were addressed byJ. B. Miranda, right, who explained the opera-tions of the Houston terminal in the loading,unloading and handling of containers at Sea-Land’s facilities on and behind Wharves 16 and17.

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The Brazilian group met for luncheon in theWorld Trade Club with several Port of Houstonofficials and its members are shown here withseveral of them. Seated at left is Louis F. Brown,Jr., Chief, Fire Protection and Traffic Control. Nextto him is Juarez Barreto, Team Leader and Trans-lator, followed by Wallace J. Stagner, Managerof Storage Warehouses; Harry G. Kelly, DistrictDirector, U. S. Customs, and C. G. Seaman,Superintendent of Efficiency, Safety and Security.Back row, second from right, is Paul Ermler ofU. S. Customs, who helped plan the program,and fourth from left, back row, is Vincent D.Williams, Manager of General Services of thePort of Houston Authority.

Shown here on the SAM HOUSTON’s upperdeck are Vaughn M. Bryant, left, Director of Inter-national Relations of the Port of Houston, incharge of the group’s program at the Port, withJorge de Souza Ramalho of the Superintendencyof Federal Income; Moaldo Fernando Bornhausende /:aria, Office of Technical and InternationalCooperation; Manoel Rodrigues Filho, Ministry ofFinance, and Juarez Barreto, translator and ateam leader from Washington, D. C.

At a luncheon given far the group by DeltaSteamship Lines and the Roberts SteamshipAgency, agents for the Brazilian flag Lloyd-Brasileiro Line, were L. R. Westerman, right, Man-ager of Delta Lines, with, from left, Ben Davisof the U. S. Customs Service; Team Leader andTranslatcir Neif Calixto; Augusto Carlos de MadelroMacedo and Geraldo Linhares.

On the bridge of the SAM HOUSTON are,from left, Alexandre Biolchini of the Commissionof Tariffs and Commerce; Geraldo Linhares, Ad-visor to the Minister of Finance; Enrique ManuelGarbayo Guarido, Income Tax Department of theMinistry of Finance in Brasilia, and RaymundoRousett of the U. S. Customs Office in Houston.

U. S. Customs Inspector Anthony R. Martinez,second from right, with, t~ram left, RaymundoBastos Ribeiro, Luis Paulo Prettl Miranda andAugusto Carlos de Madeiros Macedo, SectionManager of the Central Bank of Brazil.

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kPort Commission Chairman Fentress Bracewell, right, greets the Rev. Joseph

Abbott, S.Th., A.K.C., Chaplain of The Missions to Seamen in Toronto,Canada, before the opening luncheon. At left is Dr. Jack G. Brannon, Presi-dent of the Houston International Seamen’s Center. Next to him is the Rev.

Sam Duree, Second Vice President and Program Director of the HoustonCenter, and between Father Abbott and Chairman Bracewell is Father JamesKeating of Chicago, Chairman of the Interfaith Cooperation Committee ofthe I.C.S.A.

£ounc|l of Seamen’s Agencies Meets HerePort Commission Chairman Fentrcss

Bracewell spoke at tile opening luncheonin greeting the delegates, who also touredtile Houston International Seamen’s Cen-ter for half a day and made a trip downthe Ship Channel on tile Port’s inspec-

tion vessel SAM HOUSTON, with lun-cheon aboard, as well.

Wiley R. George, President of theWest Gulf Maritime Association, was theprincipal speaker at the final banquet ofthe four-day conference, which was fea-tured by workshop sessions as well as theSeamen’s Center and Port tour and avisit to the Manned Spacecraft Center.

Some of the I.C.S.A. delegates are shown onthe upper deck of the Port’s SAM HOUSTON priorto departure for their luncheon trip down theShip Channel.

The International Council of Scamen’sAgencies held its annual assembly inHouston last month with nearly 100 dele-gates present from all over the UnitedStates and Canada, and some from over-seas ports, as well.

The beer bar at the Houston International Sea-men’s Center was a popular spot during the tourof the Center made by the delegates and heretheir host is Father Rivers Patout, (with pipe)Chairman of the Ministry to the Port of Houston,former member of the Board of Directors of theHouston Center and one of the prime movers inits organization.

The Rev. James Scott of the Episcopal Dioceseof Texas, is one of seven chaplains of variousdenominations assigned by their churches to serveat the Houston Center, and is shown here talkingto one of the delegates.

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Another In A Series Men Who make The Port Of Houston Hum

Me~t .F,.ed E. ThompsonThis Man’s EumpaniesEuver Walerfrnnl

By LLOYD GREGORYInformation Director

BIG FRED E. THOMPSON and the companies of which he ispresident really "Cover The Water-Front."

Mr. Thompson is president of TMT Shipping & Chartering,Inc., international marine transportation consultants; ship-brokers and chartering agents; steamship agents.

Mr. Thompson also is president of TMT Marine EquipmentSales, Inc., domestic and world-wide brokers of commercialmarine equipment sales and purchasing. Both are headquar-tered at 512 Petroleum Building, Houston.

The two T’s in the company name represent Mr. Thompson,and John Templet, executive vice president. The "M" standsfor Mowbray Marine Enterprises of New York, a stockholderin tile company.

Mr. Thompson and Mr. Templet make a good team: Mr.Thompson’s experience has been mainly with barges and tugs;Mr. Templet’s with cargo vessels. "We complement one an-other," Mr. Thompson explained.

Mr. Thompson is bullish on tile Port of Houston. This isNOT surprising considering the record TMT has made sinceit was formed here in December, I970.

TMT Shipping & Chartering is agents for several ownerswho principally cater to the ocean transportation requirementsof those major internalSonal companies involved in the explo-ration and production of petroleum products, petro-chemicalplant construction, and other cargoes requiring specializedvessels or barges with heavy lift capabilities that can transportcargoes to the virtually inaccessible points throughout theworld.

TMT, from a modest beginning a few years back, has growninto a major agent for handling consignment vessels into theports of Texas and principally into the Port of Houston for agreat many owners/charterers. This department is in thehands of capable Freddie Jordan.

In addition to cargo solicitation and in-port operations fortile owners TMT represents, its chartering department, throughits worldwide correspondence, is daily involved as charterers/owners brokers arranging transportation from full cargoes topart cargoes, ranging from bagged and bulk commodities upto complete oil well dilling rigs; components for offshore drill-ing platforms, and complete refinery complexes.

Born in Minneapolis in 1922, Mr. Thompson played highschool football, and was an ardent follower of University ofMinnesota grid teams when Bernie Bierman was turning outhis crushing single wing attack national champions.

Mr. Thompson first came to Texas in 1.94.2 to train for theAir Force. He was a pilot in the 12th Air Force, and sawservice in Italy.

Mr. Thompson first worked "in the trade" in Chicago forCentral Barge Line, which was bought by Mississippi ValleyBarge Lines. He came to Houston in 1952 as district managerfor Valley Line and served in the same capacity in New Yorkfrom 1958 to 1962. He returned to Houston in 1962 and forfour years was a partner in C. J. Thibodeaux Company.

Mr. Thompson was president of Coyle Line, Tampa Ter-minal and Debardeben Marine of New Orleans for the years1966 through 1968. FRED E. THOMPSON

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Members of a high-ranking Korean Purchasing Mission, in the United States tospend millions of dollars on a vast assortment of machinery, visited Houston lastmonth as one of the principal industrial centers on their tour.

While here, the group was entertained by the newly-formed Korea-Texas TradeAssociation Council, several area industries and the Port of Houston Authority,which was host for an afternoon reception and trip down the Ship Channel aboardthe inspection vessel SAM HOUSTON.

KoreanMissionWelcomed

The Port of Houston’s Executive Director GeorgeW. Altvater, second from right, on the bridge ofthe SAM HOUSTON with Capt. Suck ChungChang, left, representative of the Korean ShippingCorporation in Houston; Miss Wendy Haimes,translator and escort with the group, and theHon. Yang Ho Park, Korean Consul in New York.

Korean Consul General in Houston, the Hon.Youn Tai Chi, right, chats with two of his country-men on the purchasing mission, Dong Hee Park,left, Deputy Administrator of the Korean Office ofSupply, and Eun Tak Lee, Director of the Bureauof Marketing of the Ministry of Commerce andIndustry.

In this photo, Felix Guerrero, second from right,of the U.S. Department of Commerce Field Officein Houston, is shown with Don Hwang, Directorof the Overseas Department of the Korean TradersAssociation; Kwang Bae Kim, President of theKorea Chamber of Commerce in Houston, andHal Chun, Director of the Korea Trade Center inDallas.

Henry Dyches, right, Program O~icer of theInstitute of International Education in Houston,who arranged much of the program for theKorean visitors, is shown with Timothy H. Seou,left, Houston attorney; John Sullivan, escort andinterpreter, and Chang Sung Kim, Vice Presidentof the Chongbang Ca. and a member of thepurchasing mission.

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BULK PLANT

RECORDS

The Port of Houston’s Bulk Materials Handling Plant ap-pears headed for another record-breaking year as exports ofpotash and soybean mcal continue to run heavy and imports,principally of iron ore and concentrates, continue strong,though only about 7 per cent of the export total.

Through October the Bulk Plant had handled more than1.4 million tons of cargo, of which some 1.3 million tons wasin exports. Last year’s record total reached 1.76 million tonsand according to Plant Manager K. P. Roden, "We’re shoot-ing for at least 1.8 million tons this year."

Potash exports, moving to Houston principally from Carls-bad, N.M., constitute the overwhelming item handled at the

Ship taking cargo of soybean meal

Double rail tracks expedite shipments

NOVEMBER, 1973

Bulk Plant with more than 1.1 million tons moved throughOctober, with the remaining export cargo soybean meal.

Actually, says Bob Jernigan, Cargo Supervisor at the plant,"Soybean meal has made a tremendous jump this year. Ayear ago this time we had handled only 15,000 tons and todate we have handled nearly 200,000 tons."

The soybean meal is moving principally from Kansas andcomes in both hopper and boxcars. For boxcar unloading thePort’s Bulk Plant uses a specially designed "augurmobile"which is inserted into the open door of the car and literallypulls the meal out with the turn of the giant augur. In hoppercars the cargo drops through the bottom, and in both casesgoes onto an endless belt which feeds the cargo to the loaderat the wharf, where it goes into the ship’s hold and is trimmed.

Unloading is done by clam bucket from the vessel’s holdand carried by endless belt to a surge bin through which itdrops into waiting, open rail cars or trucks. A tear-shapedendless railtrack carries cars into and out of the Bulk Plant,allowing for a smooth, continuous handling of incoming oroutgoing cargo. Both loader and unloader can handle morethan 1,000 tons of cargo an hour.

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Exporters and importers and other friends of the Port of

Houston in both Tulsa and Oklahoma City were visited re-

cently by the Port of Houston Authority’s Director of Trade

Development, Henry M. Broadnax, and C. A. Rousser, Jr.,

the Port’s Western Sales Manager.

While in the two Oklahoma business and manufacturing

centers--which export and import considerable cargo through

the Port of Houston--the Port Authority representatives enter-

tained at reception-dinners, as well as calling on key personnel

in their trade solicitation activities.

Photographs on these pages are of the two social functions

at which the Port of Houston representatives were hosts.

In Oklahoma City

In Oklahoma City, the Port’s H. M. Broadnax, center, is shown with Mr.and Mrs. Bruce Gilmore, left, of Sequoyah Industries, and Mr. and Mrs. DonEdelson of the Summit Machine Tool Manufacturing Co.

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wltt, left, of the Lee Way Motor Freight Co., at thePort’s Oklahoma City dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Gene Fox of the Kerr-McGeeCorporation.

C. A. Rousser, Jr., of the Port of Houston, right, with Mr. and Mrs. AlanParker of Halliburton Services at the Oklahoma City gathering.

Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Molson, left, of the Liberty National Bank and Mr.and Mrs. Ray Fisher of the Kerr-McGee Corp., in Oklahoma City

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At the Oklahoma City reception-dinner were Mr and Mrs. William Holdt,left, of Calns Coffee Co., and Mr. and Mrs. Afton Morton of the CorkenPump Co.

At the Tulsa reception H. M. Broadnax, left, is shown with ChesterStephens, Williams International Corp.; Marvin Wynn of the Tulsa Chamberof Commerce, and Steve NorJing of the Santa Fe Railroad.

Mr and Mrs. Phll Carr, at left, of the T. G. & Y. Stores, with Mr. andMrs John Bennett, of Bennett Traffic and Transportation Services in Okla-homa City

In Tulsa

The Port’s Western Sales Manager, C. A. Rousser, Jr., left, with Mr. andMrs. R. E. Burdette of the Skelly Oil Co., at the Tulsa reception and dinner.

Jack Dural, left, of the W. C. Morris Division of the Dover Corporation;Mr. and Mrs. Waymon Ray, Sun Oil Co., and Mrs. Duval at the Port’s Tulsagathering

NOVEMBER, 1973

C. A. Rousser, Jr., left, with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fenimore, Warren Petro-leum Corp., and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilson of the National Tank Co. ofCombustion Engineering, Inc. (CE NATCO).

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John Neff, left, of the Reda Pump Co., with Vickl Scott and Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Briones, left, of the Houston-based Harle ServicesA. A. Means of CE NATCO. Cfrelght forwarding), and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Whiteis, Ozark-Mahoning Co.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vera of CE NATCO are shown with Mr. and Mrs.Robert Johnson of the Byron-Jackson Pump Division of the Borg WarnerCorporation.

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Shepherd, left, of the Unit Rig Co.; Mr. and Mrs.Gerald Bone of Cities Service International, and the Port’s Trade Develop-ment Director Broadnax

Mr. and Mrs. William Weaver of Loffland Bros. Co., shown with Mr. andMrs. Nelson Howell of the Parker Drilling Co.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Morgan and Mr. and Mrs. Art Mahurin, both of theReda Pump Co., shown at the Port’s Tulsa reception and dinner.

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