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THIRTY TONS of German wines made up the first container shipment of wines from Germany to Texas.The wine was in two containers.
Happiness is Containers at the Port of Houston!¯ Containerization is BIG at the Port of
Houston.
¯ Containerization provides faster cargo
handling; thus a faster ship "turn-around".
¯ To handle containers, the Port of Hous-ton has four 82-ton capacity truck cranes;
two revolving gantry cranes; one contain-
er gantry crane; seven locomotive cranes;
two 50-ton mobile cranes.
¯ 150 acres ,of marshalling area in which
to maneuver.
¯ Open docks; marginal tracks.
There is booming containerization traf-
fic between the Port of Houston and the
United Kingdom and Western Europe.
Among imports are: radio parts, whiskey,
wines, liquers, binoculars, furniture, auto
parts, canned goods.
Among exports are: synthetic resins,
paints, oil well treating compounds, cut-
back asphalt, boats, insecticides, fertiliz-
ers, air conditioners.
Always Specify the
P(IRrl 1 (IFIII)IISrI’llNServing America’s HeartlandP.O. Box 2562 ̄ Houston, Texas 77001Telephone CA 5-0671 ̄ Pride of the Gulf
PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
MANCHESTEROtfers You
At The
Port of
HOUSTON
If you have shipping that needs fast, economical loading or
unloading facilities, you’ll save time and money by using
Manchester Terminal. Here it is easy for ships, trucks and
rail cars to load and unload cargo with no delay.
¯ Concrete wharves¯ Two-story transit sheds
¯ High.density cotton compresses¯ Automatic sprinkler system¯ Large outdoor storage area
¯ Rapid truck loading and unloading
¯ Modern handling methods and equipment
For complete cargo handling service, use Manchester Terminal.
Manchester TerminalP. O. Box 52278Houston, Texas 77052
CorporationGeneral Office: CA 7-3296Wharf Office: WA 6-9631
JANUARY, 1968 3
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¯ Melbourne
¯ Auckland
¯ Lyttleton
¯ Sydney
¯ Adelaide¯ Wellington
¯ Dunedin
General Agents
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Memphis-New Orleans-Dallas
Chicago - Atlanta - St. Louis
Kansas City- Cincinnati
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Houston Office1400 Cotton Exchange Bldg. CA 8-1431
Other OfficesGalveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Miami, Port Everglades, Jacksonville,
Savannah, Dallas, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City,Chicago, Atlanta, Cincinnati
New York AgentsBarber Steamship Lines, Inc.--Swedish Atlantic Line
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PERSONAL SERVICE
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Houston New OrleansDomburgh Jan. 9 Jan. 6Stella Nova Jan. 17 Jan. 15
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JANUARY, 1968 5
SERVICES FROM HOUSTONand other Gulf ports
INDIA SERVICEKarachi ¯ Bombay ̄ Colombo ¯ Madras
Calcutta ¯ RangoonAlso calls Mediterranean and Red Sea ports
PERSIAN GULF SERVICEDammam ¯ Kuwait ¯ Basrah ¯ Khorramshahr
Bandar Shahpour ¯ Abadan ̄ BahreinAlso calls Mediterranean and Red Sea ports
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Hilo ¯ Kahului
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6 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
Volume 10
Official PublicationOf the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District
January, 1968 No. 1
Directory OfPort Commissioners
And StaffFOR THE
Navigation DistrictHOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanR. H. PRUETT, CommissionerE. H. HENDERSON, CommissionerW. D. HADEN, II, CommissionerW. C. WELLS, Commissioner
J. P. TURNEE, Executive DirectorGEORGE W. ALTVATER, Deputy DirectorC. E. BULLOCK, Director of Port OperationsHENRY M. BROADNAX, General Sales ManagerJ. L. LOCKETT, JR., CounselS. B. BRUCE, County AuditorVAUGHN n. BRYANT, Director o! International
RelationsLLOYD GRECORY, Director of InjormationRICHAtm P. LEACH, ChiM EngineerJ. R. CURTIS, Terminal ManagerK. P. RODEN,
Manager o] Grain ElevatorW. J. STACNEE, Manager, Storage WarehousesJ. W. HATCHETT, Superintendent,
Bulk Materials Handling PlantJ. K. HENDERSON, ControllerJ. T. WALL, Purchasing ManagerA. B. LANDRY, Personnel Manager and
World Trade Building ManagerC. L. SHUPTmNE, Chie! Security OgicerW. E. R~MON, Maintenance SuperintendentT. E. WHATLEY, Administrative AssistantV. D. WILLIAMS, Administrative Assistant
SALES OFFICESEDWARD P. MOORE, New York District
Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, ASSistant
25 Broadway, New York, New YorkHUME A. HENDERSON, Chicago District
Sales Manager401 E. Prospect, Mount Prospect, Illinois
JOHN 1~. WEILER, Houston DistrictSales Manager
C. A. ROffSSER, JR.,District Sales Representative1519 Capitol Avenue, Houston, Texas
EXECUTIVE OFFICES
1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford StreetTelephone CApitol 5-0671
P. O. Box 2562, Houston, Texas 77001
Con[en[3
Why Ship Via Port of Houston? .................................... 8
Port Entertains Naval Attaches and Consuls ........................... 10
Ships On Maiden Voyages Are Honored ............................... 12
He’s Dynamic Advocate of International Trade ....................... 13
Scene At The World Trade Club ................................... 14
The Houston Port Bureau Reports .................................. 16
Harbor Towing .................................................. 17
Houston Steamship Agents ........................................... 30
Port of Houston Shipping Directory .............................. 31
Sailing Schedule of General Cargo Ships ............................. 32
THE COVER
Recently launched are these three modern tugs assembled in the Port of Hous-ton Turning Basin. They are, from the left, MARS, owned by Intracoastal Towing& Transportation Corp.; GRETCHEN, owned by Suderman & Young, FRANCES E.HADEN, owned by Bay-Houston Towing Company. See Page 17 for a story onharbor towing.
The Port o~ Houston Magazine
TED SUMERLIN, Edilor
Published monthly by the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Naviga-tion District, the PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine is distributed free to maritime,industrial and transportation interests in the United States and foreign coun-tries. This publication is not copyrighted and permission is given for the re-production or use of any original material, provided credit is given to thePort of Houston. Additional information, extra copies of the magazine oradvertising rates may be obtained by writing the PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine,2332 W. Holcombe Blvd., Houston, Texas 77025.
JANUARY, 1968 7
$1 VIA OFJoy JOSEPH F. MALONEY
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Typical of the quick and efficient handling of steel at the Port of Houstonis this scene of four of the Navigation District’s new 80-ton Link Belt motorcranes working to unload steel from a ship. The Port has also purchasedrecently two 50-ton motor cranes.
IN TI[IS DAY OF MODERN technology with sweeping and re-
volutionary changes which are made in science and industry,and keeping in mind that the talk today is not primarily ofbetter and faster 13,000 to 25,000 ton vessels, but that Lloydswill soon be coming forth with the specifications for the 500to 750 thousand ton vessels, one might be inclined to thinkthat the era of those smaller ships is over.
This is not the case but if one did not recognize this, onewould think that the ports of the future would obviously bethe so-called "off-shore" ports. These would be the small sta-tions which act as one terminus for the submarine and/orfloating pipe line which would be receiving and transflowingall types of commodities in some sort of a liquid or fluid move-ment.
To believe this would be, in essence, similar to contemplat-ing the day when the large super air carriers will be trans-porting the bulk of our foreign commerence. The day whenour existing ports will be obsolete is not in the most distantforeseeable future.
Therefore, the current surge throughout the United Statesand the world of port improvement, renovation and enlarge-ment is quite in order and it should be geared to the sizesand tonnages which even today represent the bulk of vesselsin existencc. One must not forget that, despite the fact the 500-750 thousand tonners are under study and will indeed be areality in the future, the day of the 5,000 tonner is still verymuch with us. Actually, it is again coming into its own if onlybecause of the many, numerous underdeveloped areas in theworld in which there are today either non-existent ports, orports which can only accommodate vessels of that size orsmaller.
With this in mind one might wonder why any particularport in the United States is growing at a faster rate than anyother and why any industry or corporation might be inclinedto invest and situate itself in a particular area in order totake advantage of improvements which are being developed.In order to do this one would have to list the basic reasonsdetermining what makes a great port. I believe these to be:
PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
Unsolicited and unsought compliments are the onlyones of value. Thus, Edward P. Moore, New YorkSales Manager for the Port of Houston, became allears when he heard the enthusiastic James F. Maloneyof the Tuteur Steel Corporation in New York tell ofhis experiences in the handling of a cargo of steelfrom Brazil.
Importer Maloney offered to put his thoughts inwriting, and the PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE gladly ac-cepted the opportunity to publish his comments.
A graduate o] the United States Merchants MarineAcademy, class of 1949, Mr. Ma’Ioney has had sevenyears at sea, including service in the U.S. Navy. Hehas been ashore in the steamship field for the last 13years. THE EDITOR.
iOUSTONJOSEPH F. MALONEY
1. The Harbor itself.2. Facilities and equipment.3. Location4. The hinterland or interior areas which are
geared to industry and commerce.5. People
There are many ports, notably New York, Hampton Roads,San Francisco and Seattle which have ideal natural harborswhich surpass the 50 mile, man-made channel leading to aturning basin which constitutes the Port of Houston. It shouldbe noted, however, that much of this 50 miles of channel isconnected to completely open area in which industry canlocate its terminals in order to obtain fast access to the sea.
A port’s facilities and equipment must include ideal andadequate docks, dock space, warehouses, open storage areas,railroad sidings, trucking facilities and space, proper andnecessary crane equipment and usual stevedoring, truckingand rail facilities. These Houston has to a degree which iscertainly as good, if not better, than many of the major largeand small ports of the United States.
The third key item in port development is a port’s partic-ular location. Now certainly Houston’s location is not as goodas New Orleans’ inasmuch as it is not connected with a mightyriver which provides cheap barge transportation to and fromthe industrial and agricultural mid-section of the UnitedStates. Houston, however, does have an ideal position location-wise as it must be remembered that it is as close to the SouthAmerican ports as New York and Philadelphia. It is only 3-5days further to the Continent than the major East Coast portsand it is approximately the same distance to the Far East asthe major Eastern ports.
The fourth item, industrial hinterland, is surely an asset tothe Port of Houston, but in reality only comparable to themajor exporting areas of the United States.
Now, all of the above items Houston has, but not to anytruly measureable extent greater than any other great portsin the United States. Therefore, one could ask, why has itrisen so fast to become the nation’s third largest port withinthe short span of the postwar years?
In my opinion it is because of the fifth item in my list ofreasons, namely people.
In order for a port truly to be effective and to succeedover and above other ports which have as good, if not better,all-around facilities, the key must be the people who arc im-plementing and utilizing all of the natural and man-madefacilities. As this point it should be brought forward that itcannot just be the efforts of some in management or some inany particular field, but it must be the joint efforts of all whoare, in essence, working for the same goal and end.
Here is where I believe Houston excels. Whether you gointo the hold of the vessel with the longshoreman or to theclerks’ office on the dock, or to the truck dispatcher’s office, orto the freight forwarder’s office, or to the stevedore and agent’sdowntown office, or to the top management in any industrialcorporation you find each and everyone working with the sameeffortless dedication. I say effortless because, although greateffort is exerted, it is a natural thing and not something whichis forced upon any one of the particular people.
Basically it stems from the personal desire to each to do thejob the best and fastest way and then go on to the next job.It could well be that this is a trait which is peculiar only tothe people of the area, but then again you find many peoplewho are not from the area and have just recently relocated.It would seem to me to be some sort of an indefinable spirit ordesire on the part of all there to get the job done.
Texas has a history of which its people might well be proudand of which the world is certainly aware that they are. Ipersonally am of the opinion that they shortly will have some-thing else of which to be proud, that is, the Number 1 portin the nation! The beauty of this pride, however, is that it isnot worn as an obvious outer garment, but is reflected in themanner in which people want to get the job done right andthen to make it even better.
I should like to list the organizations involved in this latestshipment. The vessel was the M. S. DINAR which loaded acargo of steel in Brazil for discharge at Mobile, New Orleansand Houston. The stevedoring was performed by Gulf Steve-dore Corporation, the freight forwarder was Hawthorne & Co.,the vessel agents were Rice, Kerr & Company, the truckingwas handled by Ramsey Trucking, Mission Petroleum andothers, and the importer of the steel was Tuteur Steel Cor-poration.
JANUARY, 1968 9
Twenty three members of the Corpsof Fore(gn Naval Attaches accreditedto the United States Navy visited Hous-ton in December and were guests of theNavigation District for luncheon anda look at the Port and Ship Channelaboard the SAM HOUSTON.
The attaches represented countries ofEurope, Latin America, the Middle Eastand Fart East, and Canada and werejoined aboard by representatives of morethan a dozen corresponding consulates inHouston.
Rear Admiral E. B. Fluckey, USN,Assistant Chief of Naval Operations(hatelligenee) was in charge of thegroup, assisted by Captain C. C. Harti-gan, Jr., USN, and Lieutenant R. C.Moran, USN, both Navy Foreign LiaisonProtocol Officers, who were escort of-ricers for the group. Captain John C.Allman, USN, Commanding Officer andSenior Naval Officer Present-HoustonArea, was in charge of local arrange-ments, which also included a tour of theManned Spacecraft Center.
Rear Admiral E. B. Fluckey, USN, (second fromleft) who was in charge of the tour, is shownwith, from left, C. E. Bullock, director of Portoperations; Port of Houston Deputy DirectorGeorge W. Altvater; Captain Arrigo Barbl ofItaly; Colonel Milan Mavric of Yugoslavia, andCaptain C. C. Hartlgan, USN, senior escort officerfor the group.
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Watching port activity from the fantail of the
SAM HOUSTON are, from left, Kenneth Roden,manager of the Navigation District’s Public GrainElevator; Colonel Aksel Jorgensen of Denmark;Brigadier Furdoon S. B. Mehta of India; Nicara-guan Consul Dr. Alejandro Arguello and Colonel
Julio Gutierrez R. of Nicaragua.
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From left to right on the bow of the SAMHOUSTON are Captain Anwer Saeed of Pakistan,Lieut. Colonel Uri Yarom of Israel, and CaptainFumiro Shimizu of Japan, chatting with StevePlumb of Interncontinental Motors, Inc., of SanAntonio and Graham Chidzoy, commercial officerin the British Consulate General.
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Captain E. H. Potter, commanding the NavalReserve Training Unit at Rice University, secondfrom right, chats with Commodore Donald W.Knox of Canada, at left, and Danish ConsulBernhard Daugbjerg. In center is CommanderJean-Pierre Murgue of France and at right Cap-tain Demosthenes P. Evgenidis of Greece.
At left Commander Frank Poldermans of TheNetherlands chats with Norwegian Consul ThorleifJorgensen. In center is Captain Claes-Olaf Silf-verberg of Sweden, listening while Captain Sera-fettin Batbay of Turkey talks with Brigadier Gen-eral Ali Kabbanl of Saudi Arabia.
Capt. John C. AIIman, left, and his son, EnsignJohn C. AIIman, Jr., chat on the upper afterdeckof the SAM HOUSTON with Germany’s consulin Houston, Dr. Win. Otto Denzer and Lieut.Commander Wolfgang Wetenkamp of the Ger-many Navy. In the center is Capt. Charles Her-Iofson of Norway.
From left to right are Belgian Consul GeneralHerman J. Matsaert and Lieut. Col. Albert L. Tor-reele of Belgium; Venezuelan Consul General Dr.Elias Casado and Lieut. Commander AndrOs E.Brito of Venezuela, and Lieutenant Nelson D.Taylor of the Naval Reserve Training Unit atRice University in Houston.
Brazil, Argentina and Portugal got together inthis group on the foredeck of the SAM HOUSTON.At left is Brazilian Vice Consul Octavlo Tavorafollowed by Commander Vasco A. M. Rodriguesof Portugal, Commander Paulo de Gouvea Cor-rea of Brazil, Argentine Consul Alejandro Carideand Argentine Navy Commander Angel L. Martin.
JANUARY, 1968
Ships On Maiden Voyages Are Honored
The S. A. HEXRIVIER of the South African Mar-ine (Safmarlne) Line called at the Port of Houstonfor the first time last month and received aplaque from the Navigation District and HoustonJunior Chamber of Commerce commemorating theevenl. From left to right are James C. Palmer,Gulf Port Captain for Safmarine; Captain R.Ralph; Ron Wade of the Jaycees; John V. Temp-leb sales and traffic manager for Hansen & Tide-man, Safmarine agents, and First Officer R~bertStenhouse.
The 10,000 ton motor vessel TOULOUSE of theWilh. Wilhelmsen Line of Norway visited the Portof Houston on her maiden voyage to the Gulfand was received with proper honors at a lunch-eon aboard hosted by Kr. Kristiansen, Master.Above, Captain Kristiansen holds a commemorativeplaque presented by the Navigation District andthe Houston Chamber of Commerce. From leftare R. O. Davies, traffic manager for StrachanShipping Co., agents for the Wilhelmsen Line inthe Gulf; Bill Nelson of the Houston Jaycees, andLeonard LaGrange, Strachan traffic representative.
The M. V. MARIO D’ALMEIDA, a 18,495 d.w.t.bulk carrier belonging to Cia. Comercio e Nave-gacao of Brazil, delivered 38,400 bags of coffeeto Houston on her maiden voyage recently. Thevessel is one of five sister ships being built inBrazil for the company. The MARIO DALMEIDAwas launched in August, 1967, and the othersare to be launched at four months intervalsbeginning this month. Junior Chamber of Com-merce member Bob Bacon, left, presented CaptainL. F. DaSilva, center, and Admiral FranciscoOliveira, the owner’s representative, wlth thePort of Houston maiden voyag~ plaque honor-ing the occasion. The ship ~as sailing for LloydBrasileiro Line, representsd by Kerr SteamshipCompany, Inc.
The German flag vessel M. V. SECURITAS wasin Houston recently on her maiden voyage tothe Gulf, sailing for Atlantic Shipping Company,S. A. Her master, Captain Heinz Matthias, center,was presented the ship’s maiden voyage plaqueby Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce re-presentative Nils R. Stadeager, left, as HansKnickrehm, president of States Shipping Agency,Inc., steamship agents, stood by. Captain Mat-thias first sailed to Houston in 1928.
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Another In A Series
Meet J<’e. St.erlie’s llynamic Advucate{If Inlernatiunal Trade
Men Who Make The Port of Houston Hum
By LLOYD GREGORYInformation Director
KEN STUER. president of the Texas International Trade
Association. deelarcs Texas industrialists will have a goldenopportunity to sell their products to the international trade atHEMISFAIR. opening April 6 in San Anlonio.
Mr. Smer’s association has the blessing of the TexasInduslrial Commission, and Texas Manufacturers’ Association.
The prematnrely gray, dynamic Mr. Stucr is in the marineinsurance business, with oftices in the World Trade Center.
"Computerized equipment will help us at HEMISFAIR,"Mr. Stuer said. "Suppose a visitor wanls to know the manu.faeturers of certain oil field equipment in Texas. We’ll puncha button, and the computer in a very short time will furnishthe information."
A similar promotion was put on at EXPO ’67 at Montreal,with more than 18,000 visiting businessmen registering to seekinformation on Canadian manufacturers, Mr. Stuer said.
The Texas International Trade Association was organizedin 1951. Other officers are: Manuel Carillo, customs broker ofLaredo, first vice president; Joe Sekin, freight forwarder ofDallas, second vice president; Don Waheed of Biehl & Com-pany. Houston, treasurer: Bill Brewster. Port of Galveston,secretary.
Wherever he goes, Mr. Stuer preaches the gospel of freerinternational trade. Chairman of a sub-committee of the Inter-national Business Committee of the Chamber of Commerce,Ken took the head in acquainting high school students study-ing world history with the economic impact of the Port ofHouston. On a day’s fieht trip, 60 students toured the HoustonShip Channel aboard the Sam Houston, visited customsoffices, steamship offices, etc.
Mr. Stuer was born in Methuem, Mass., and graduatedfrom high school there. After attending Trinity College inHartford, Conn., he began a long and versatile career ininsurance :
One year with the Aelna Life group; four years withHartford Fire Insurance; 11 years with Hartford in oceanmarine; 1l years with Aetna Insuranee. serving as assistantsecretary, and four years as vice president of American Inter-national Marine agency, New York. During his career in theeast, he was a member of the American Institute of MarineUnderwriters and of the Wall Street club.
On his first visit to Houston in 1918, Mr. Stuer was im-pressed with the potential growth of the Port of Houston.He moved here in 1957, joining Langhain, Langston, Burncttand Dyer as marine account executive. In 1961, backed bymore than 35 years of experience, he opened his own marineinsurance office.
Mr. Stuer describes Executive Director J. P. Turner of thePort of Houston as "a real pro," declaring "I try" to do asgood a job running my office as he does running the port."
Mr. Stuer is a member of the Propeller Club, ArabiaTemple Shrine, World Trade Cluh, Regional Export Expan-sion Councih and he was the Texas World Trade Man ofThe Year in 1966.
Mr. and Mrs. Stuer have six children, ranging from 14upward. They live at 5510 Arboles in Westbury. They areEpiseopalians. KEN STUER
JANUARY, 1968 13
Real Admiral Ross Pharo Bullard, commandingofficer of the 8th. Coast Guard District, head-quartered in New Orleans, was in Houston recentlyto visit the operations of Captain Robert G. Schwing,officer in charge of Maritime Inspection, U.S.C.G.,Houston, left, and Commander Arthur Taylor, Cap-tain of the Port, Houston, right. They are seen herein the Houston World Trade Club.
A model of the newly converted containersMpS. S. HOUSTON was presented to the World Trade
Club by Sea-Land Service, Inc. following the christ-ening of the vessel after her arrival last monthfrc~m the Todd Shipyards Galveston Division (SeePort of Houston MAGAZINE November, 1967).Club President J. E. Davies holds the identifyingplaque between A. T. Leigh, Sea-Land’s Southwestsales manager, and G. E. Fitzwater, Houston salesmanager for Sea-Land.
Discussing Denmark’s trade with Houston andhow to increase it are Danish Consul Franz Howitzof the Royal Danish Consulate General in NewYork who visited the World Trade Club last monthwith Danish Consul Bernhard Daugbjerg, left. Atright in Paul E. Hedemann, district agent for theBethlehem Steel Co.
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Traffic department employees of the AmericanSmelting and Refining Company held their Christ-mas luncheon at the World Trade Club in Mid-December. Sponsor for the party was G. W.Dokes, district traffic manager for AmericanSmelter and Refining Company.
PORTOF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
Mrs. Yolanda Figueroa de Leiva, granddaughterof El Salvador’s late President Figueroa, was aguest at the World Trade Club of Jos@ Trabanino,Jr., standing, Consul of El Salvador, Seated atleft is Danish Consul Bernhard Daugbjerg, withHouston rancher and businessman K. Bruun.
Congressman James F. Fanseen of Maryland,center, a Republican member of the Federal Mari-
time Commission, addressed the Houston WorldTrade Club at its December meeting to discussthe nation’s merchant marine program. He isshown with Lykes Vice President Ashley Lott, left,
and W. D. Haden, II, vice president of the BayHouston Towing and a Commissioner of the Port
of Houston.
Help offered by the United States Departmentof Commerce to increase U.S. exports by exhibit-ing abroad was explained to Houston area busi-ness executives recently by Robert L. Pritchard,center, of the Bureau of International Commerce,Washington. With Pritchard are Ken Warden, left,manager of the South Texas Onion Committee,Mercedes, Texas, and Edward Fecteau, right, headof the Houston field office of the Department ofCommerce.
Johannes G. Beekman, third from right, consulgeneral of The Netherlands, was honored by theNavigation District at a party of Consular Corpsfriends in the World Trade Club last month, priorto his departure for Vancouver, British Columbia,to take up a like assignment. Miss M. H. deBruljn,center, Netherlands vice consul, is in charge pend-ing arrival of a replacement. From left to right,Georges MacClenahan, consul general of France;Herman J. Matsaert, consul general of Belgium;Vaughn M. Bryant, director of international rela-tions for the Navigation District; Tore Hoegstedt,consul general of Sweden and Dean of the Con-sular Corps; Bernhard Daugbjerg, consul of Den-mark; Jos@ Trabanlno, Jr., consul of El Salvador;Dr. Wm. O. Denzer, Consul of Germany; Andr@Crispin, honorary Consul of Belgium; Thorleif Jar-gensen, consul of Norway and J. P. Turner, ex-ecutive director of the Navigation District.
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The nations railroads have under con-sideration the matter of cancelingabsorption of wharfage or tollage chargesat all United States ports, except PacificCoast Ports, where those absorptions arepresently being made. The Port Bureau hasasked for a public hearing on this matterso that it and other interested partieswill have an opportunity to voice theirviews on this important subject. The jointproposal is before the carriers underExecutive Committee-Western Railway TrafficAssociation Docket No. 67-5, TrafficExecutive Association-Eastern RailroadsBulletin 277, Illinois Freight AssociationBulletin 344, Southern Ports ForeignFreight Committee Docket 6845-E, andSouthern Freight Association Submittal21000.
M. A. Barrilleaux joined the Houston PortBureau staff as a Transportation Analyston December I. He is admitted to practicebefore the Interstate Commerce Commissionand brings a wealth of transportationexperience to the Bureau. Prior to hisaffiliation with the Bureau, "Mel" hadserved as Traffic Manager of industrialfirms, worked in rates and sales withcommon carrier motor lines and steamshipcompanies and acted as a professionalTraffic Consultant.
The nations rail carriers have furtherpostponed from December 31, 1967 to Marchi, 1968 the effective date of rail carrierrules naming five days free-time inconnection with shipments of export,coastwise and intercoastal traffic at allports. Under I.C.C. Docket 34522 and I&SDocket 8230 rail carrier rules naming thisreduced free-time were suspended to andincluding January 31, 1966. Since that datethe carriers have voluntarily postponedeffective date of their publicationsinvolving free-time at the port. Publica-tions involving Houston and other Texasports is Item 160-G of Texas-LouisianaFreight Bureau Tariff 25-W. Generallyspeaking, the present free-time at Houstonand other Gulf ports on export trafficremains at seven days, exclusive ofSaturdays, Sundays and Holidays.
Several changes relating to Port of HoustonTariff No. 8 are now under considerationby the railroads and as soon as theirapproval is granted will be made in TariffNo. 8 under these changes, the two heavy-lift charges applying on shipments of 35tons or less will be eliminated and allreference to the qualifying word "wing-type" will be deleted from Tariff No. 8where it now appears in connection withthe word "pallet." Scheduled for loading/unloading reductions on January 15, 1968are two commodities: printing ink, loadedin 55 gallon drums on pallets with not lessthan 4 drums to each pallet will be chargedat 9¼~ per i00 pounds; also subject to this9¼~ cwt. charge will be synthetic plasticgranules, unitized on pallets maximumdimensions 58 inches by 46 inches, notexceeding 65 inches in height, grossweight not less than 2,000 pounds. Alsoscheduled for a reduction on January 15,1968 down to 25~ per 2,000 pounds is thewharfage rate at the Bulk Handling Planton "all commodities not otherwisespecified." This change is being made inPort of Houston Tariff No. i0.
The Interstate Commerce Commission underDocket 34905 will investigate the law-fulness of rates, rules, regulations andpractices established in connection withthe so-called "Rent-A-Train" plan of ratesestablished by the Illinois Central Rail-road Company applying on corn, oats, orwheat from Illinois stations to BatonRouge, Destrehan, New Orleans and Reserve,Louisiana and Gulfport, Mississippi forexport. Under the new rates, which becameeffective November 29, 1967, the IllinoisCentral will provide trains of 86 cars to115 cars based on yearly rental fees, for86 car trains, as example, of $700,000 inshipper furnished hopper cars or $i,000,000in railroad furnished hopper cars. Ad-ditional charges are provided for each tonmile moved, loaded or empty, and for thecarriage of a greater number of cars.According to the Illinois Central, toeffect a savings in freight charges, atleast 40 trips annually must be made. Someshippers could save as much as 25% of theirpresent transportation costs based on 70trips each year. The rates were protestedby numerous shippers and port interests.
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Harbor TowingModern Tug Boats Serve As
Powerful Guides For Vessels
Visiting The Port of Houston
By Carl D. Bond
lnlernational Relations Representative
THEY LOOK like children hanging
onto their mother’s skirts as they comeup the channel and into the TurningBasin . . . but the powerful tug boatstied securely to the ocean going vesselsthat visit the Port of Houston are ac-tually more like strong Boy Scouts help-ing a lady across the difficult street.
The modern tug th,et at the Port ofHouston is composed of vessels belong-ing to three separate towing companies,
the Bay-Houston Towing Co., lntra-coastal Towing and Transportation Cor-poration, and Suderman & Young Tow-ing Company. The three companiesalways have tugs ranging in power from1000 to 1700 horsepower, available tohandle any ship moving in the HoustonShip Channd.
The fleet recently has been augmentedand updated by the addition of four new
Even the biggest ships can get pushed around by the "little giants" and here, though dwarfedalongside, a Bay-Houston tug maneuvers the mammoth NATIONAL DEFENDER on her trip to thePort of Houston’s Public Grain Elevator where she loaded more than one million bushels of wheatfar overseas.
tugs of modern design buih by theBludworth Shipyard of Houston. Thenew tugs are of a relatively short, fatdesign that gives them great stabilityand maneuverability. Fully equippedwith all the latest navigational and com-munications equipment and with fullair conditioning, the tugs develop 1700horsepower.
Although two of the companies. Su-derman & Young and Bay-Houston hadtheir beginnings in the late 1800’s inthe Galveston Bay area, ship handlingobviously did not start in the Port ofHouston until after the eomph’tiou ofdeep water channel and Turning Basinin 1914..
Captain W. D. Haden, founder of thecompany presently known as the Bay-Houston Towing Company, began op-erating an oyster shell dredging anddistributing business in Galveston Bayshortly after the Civil War, and occa-sionally used his boats to handle oceangoing vessels calling in the Bay area.
In 1898, Suderman & Dolson, fore-runner of Suderman & Young andowned at that time by Charles T. Suder-man and Ben Dolson, purchased thesteam tug LOUISE, of some d00 imputhorsepower, to shift derrick bargeswhich were used extensively in theirGalw’ston stevedoring operations.
Soon the LOUISE was being calledupon to assist the sailing ships and
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A famous visitor to the Port of Houston, the U.S.S. CONSTITUTION, with the Intracoastal Towing& Transportation Corp. steam tug TITAN alongside as she came up on her historic visit in the 1920’s.
steamers calling at the Port of Galveston.The LOUISE, which was originally usedto tow cotton barges down BuffaloBayou and across Galveston Bay, hadher propeller enclosed in a sturdy irontunnel to minimize damage to it in theshallow and log filled waters of Gal-veston Bay. This was one of the firstapplications of the Kort Nozzle, whichis now standard equipment on push-boats around the world.
Intracoastal Towing & TransportationCorporation went into business shortlyafter the Port of Houston was openedto deep water. The company’s first tugwas the PENNSYLVANIA, a steam ves-sel of about 250 horsepower. Sponsoredby the American Republics Corporationwhich had connections with many of theearly giants in the petroleum industry,the company did a brisk business withtankers calling along the Houston ShipChannel.
Bay Towing Company was organized
in the early 1920’s by Captain Hadenwith the MIRAFLORES as his first ves-sel specifically purchased for the ship-handling business. The boat was a steamtug in the 500 to 600 horsepower classand was named after one of the locksin the Panama Canal, where she hadpreviously been used by the PanamaCanal builders.
Soon a sizeable fleet of tugs was oper-ating in the Houston-Galveston Bay area.Suderman & Dolson, known as Suder-man & Young after 1916, when JohnYoung bought Dolson’s interest in theCompany, put the tugs BERNICE, WM.T. KELLEY, RELIANCE, IMA ttOGG,MARINER, and NELLIE into servioe.The NELLIE, purchased in 1915 andsomewhat short on horsepower, develop-ing only 150 b.h.p., had the distinctionof being the first diesel tug to operateon the Gulf Coast.
Bay Towing, in addition to the MIRA-FLORES, owned the JOHN C. STUART
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and the RESOLUTE, and very oftenchartered the Galveston fire boat, theCHARLES CLARK, to help out duringpeak periods.
Intracoastal Towing operated theTROJAN, the TITAN, and the ATLAS,as well as the original PENNSYL-VANIA.
In 1931, Intracoastal, or I.T.T. as itis popularly known, came under theownership of the Petroleum NavigationCo., a subsidiary of American Repub-lics. In addition to operating the tow-ing service, the company owned fourtankers, the FEDERAL, the NAHAN,the PUEBLO, and the PAPOOSE. T.E. Buchanan was president of the or-ganization, H. W. Anderson was vicepresident and L. Trost the companymanager.
In the meantime, the Haden interestshad acquired the Buffalo Bayou-DanRyan Towing Company in the springof 1925 and had chartered the HoustonTowing Company. Much later, underthe leadership of the present companypresident, Cecil R. Haden, the twoHaden companies were merged into to-day’s Bay-Houston Towing Co.
With the Buffalo-Dan Ryan business,Bay-Houston took over the tugs NE-CHES, ORION, and HELEN HENDER-SON. Whereas all previous tugs in useon the Channel had been built of wood,the HELEN HENDERSON had beenfabricated of iron plate.
The year 1925 also saw the incorpo-ration of the tug boat division of Su-derman & Young and its sale to theLykes Bros. Steamship interests. Lykesretained ownership of the company un-til it was purchased by the presentowners in 1937. During the years from1917 to 1927, Suderman & Youngbought four additional tugs; the MES.SENGER and the PROPELLER in anunfinished state from the War ShippingBoard, the second tug MARINER,which was construtced for the companyby Bludworth Shipyard on PelicanIsland in Galveston, and finally, theSEA KING.
The Bay-Houston organization alsoadded the R. C. VIET, the GULF PORT,and the TEXAS to its fleet in this pe-riod.
No additions were made to the fleetuntil after the end of World War II.However, the I.T.T. tug TITAN waslost at sea during the 1943 hurricanewhen the wartime operations suspendedall weather broadcasts. All but one ofthe crew was saved when the life-raftwas washed ashore on Bolivar Beachseveral days after the storm.
After the end of World War II, theFederal Government made a number ofwartime built steel-hulled, diesel-pow-ered tugs available to the tug boat in-dustry and all three of the Houston
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companies began replacing their oldsteam-powered, wooden-hulled vesselswith the newer ones.
Also, at the end of the war period,Intracoastal Towing and TransportationCo. was sold by American Republics toa private group.
The tugs bought from the govern-ment were generally in the 80 footclass with 750 horsepower diesel en-gines. These were soon changed, how-ever, for more powerful ones of 1000horsepower.
In addition to these vessels, severalnew tugs were built during the 1950’sand early 1960’s, and these later-builtvessels were powered with 1700 horse-power diesels.
During this period, I.T.T. operatedthe AJAX, the ATLAS, the HERMES,the TITAN, the TROJAN, and theZEUS. Suderman & Young had theMARINER, the MARATHON, the MES-SENGER, the PROPELLER, and theSEA KING. Bay-Houston operated theR. J. f(~ALES, the W. A. WANSLEY,the H. O. WEATHERBEE, the J. R.GUYTON, the C. R. HADEN, theLAURA HADEN, the BARBARAGEORGE, the JENNIFER GEORGE,and the J. HARRIS MASTERSON.
Although all the vessels have workedin the Houston Ship Channel at onetime or another, the companies operatetowing services in other ports along thecoast, and the actual composition of thefleet in Houston varies greatly.
The four new tugs recently supplied tothe fleet are the FRANCES E. HADENand the IV. DOUGLAS MASTERSONof Bay-Houston; the MARS of Intra-coastal Towing and Transportation, andthe GRETCHEN of Suderman & Young.
Part of the Bay Towing Company’s fleet (now Bay-Houston Towing Company) is shown above as appeared in 1921. Center is the MIRAFLORFS, the first vessel purchased by founder Capt. W. D.Haden specifically for the ship handling business. At left is the JOHN C. STUART and at rightthe ZOE.
The Suderman & Young Towing Company stea,m tug trails the French S. S. LAFAYETTE up theHouston Ship Channel on the passenger ship’s maiden voyage, ready to help maneuver the vesselaround the many sharp bends the channel had in those days.
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Cunard AppointsT. T. & T. AgentsIn United States
The president of Cunard Line Lid.,C. Nicholas Anderson, announced thatas of January 1, Texas Transport & Ter-minal Co., Inc., became their GeneralFreight Agenls in tile UnitEd States.
Cunard’s staff" and officers will be ab-sorbed by the newly appoinlcd Agentsin New York, Boston, Chicago, andPhiladelphia. Tile Cunard Freight or-ganization now located at 25 Broadwaywill temporarily be a seeomt office inNew York for Texas Transport & Ter-minal who presently make their head-quarters at 52 Broadway. (It is plannedthe two offices will be merged and situ-ated at the 25 Broadway address duringthe coming weeks.) Meanwhile, therewill be no change in the booking systemnow in effect for both organizations.
The Texas Transport & TerminalCompany presently represent CunardLine Ltd. as well as their subsidiary,Messrs. Thus. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd.throughout the Gulf area and the newappointment will result in T.T.T. cover-ing the services now operated by Cunardincluding the Atlantic Container LineLtd. Channel Service to Southamptonand London, the weekly service to Liver-pool, the Joint Service with the AnchorLine to Glasgow as well as the manyservices now operated by Cunard/Brocklebank from the U.S. Gulf to SouthAfrica, India, Pakistan, and the UnitedKingdom.
Lykes PromotionWilliam J. Squicciarini, general traf-
fic manager in the Lykes Bros. Steam-ship Co., Inc. office in New York City,has been named an assistant vice presi-dent in the Lykes organization. Squiccia-rini will maintain offices in New York.
Reid PromotedIlobcrl Reid, president of Texas Trans-
port & Terminal Co.. Inc.. has beenelected chairman of the board, andHarold W. RobErts. has succeeded himas president, according to a companyannouncement. In addition. Robert R.Barkerding, Sr. has been elected execu-tive vice-president. All three are mem-hers of the firm’s executive committee.
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