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6 Port of Houston Magazine

Volume 21

PORT OFIIOUSTON

Official Publicationof thePort of HoustonAuthority

July, 1977 No. 7

Port CommissionersAnd Staff

FENTRESS BRACEWELL. ChairmanW.D. HADEN, II, CommissionerMRS. MARCELLA D. PERRY, CommissionerPAUL DROZAK, CommissionerJOHN H. GARRETr CommissionerGEORGE W. ALTVATER, Executive DirectorC.E. BULLOCK. GeneralManager-

OperationsRICHARD P. LEACH, General Manager-

AdministrationF. WILLIAM COLBURN, CounselMICHAEL SCORC10. Executive Secretary

to the Port CommissionC.A. ROUSSER. JR.. Director of Trade

DevelopmentLEON LITTERBACK, Acting Eastern Sales Manager

ARMANDO WATERLAND. MidwesternSales Manager

BILL COOK, Western Sales ManagerBARCLAY TERHUNE, Sales RepresentativeSTEPHEN TURNER. Sales RepresentativeTED SUMERL1N, Advertising ManagerJERRY BRoWN, Assistant Advertising ManagerMIDDY RANDERSON. Publicity ManagerJ.K. HENDERSON. ControllerNORMAN E. HUENI, Chief EngineerDAVID P. WALSH, Assistant Chief EngineerALTON B. LANDRY, Personnel Manager and

World Trade Building ManagerJ.R. CURTIS, Director, Port OperationsW.D. DUNNAnOE, Manager, Port Operations,

Turning BasinC .G. SEAMAN, Manager, Port Operations,

Barbours Cut and Bayport TerminalsK.P. RODEN, Manager, Grain ElevatorLESLIE J. SANDERFER, Manager, Bulk Materials

Handling PlantA. MONROE BEAN. Manager, Storage

WarehousesL,T. FRITSCH Purchasing AgentA.J.M. VAN DE VEN Maintenance

Superintendent

Louis F. BROWN, JR., Manager Marine,Fire and Safety

JAMES C. VOREIS, Manager of SecurityS.G. FULLERTON, County Auditor

EXECUTIVE OFFICE1519 Capitol Avenue, Houston, Texas 77002P.O. Box 2562, Houston, Texas 77001

Telephone: (713) 225-0671TWX: 910-881-5787

TERMINAL OFFICETelephone (713) 672-8221

HEW YORK FIELD OFFICE60 East 42nd. Street, New York 10017

Telephone: (212) 867-2780

CONTENTS

New Consuls General Join The Houston Corps ............................ 9

Citizen’s Chamber Tours Port Facilities ................................. 10

New Houston Commercial Zone Map ................................... 11

Port Entertains Consular Corps ........................................ 12

Mooring A Ship Is "Same Old Business" With Automation ................. 14

Seamen’s Center Directors See Port .................................... 16

Snap Out Directory of the Port of Houston ............................... 27

General Cargo Ships Sailing From the Port of Houston .................... 31

THE COVER

Mooring a ship is a tricky job. Houston has a corps of well-trained expertswho tell about the mooring business starting on Page 14.

The Port of Houston MagazineTED SUMERLIN, Editor

Published monthly by the Port of Houston Authority, the PORT OFHOUSTON MAGAZINE is distributed free to maritime, industrial and trans-portation interests in the United States and foreign countries. Thispublication is not copyrighted and permission is given for the reproductionor use of any original material, provided credit is given to the Port afHouston. Additional information, extra copies or advertising rates may beobtained by writing the PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE, Post Office Box2562, Houston, Texas 77001.

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Citizens ChamberTours Port FacilitiesThe Port of Houston Authority recently entertained the

Houston Citizens Chamber of Commerce Board of Direc-tors aboard the M/V SAM HOUSTON as another means ofkeeping the Houston Community in touch with thedevelopments at the Port of Houston.

During the boat ride down the Ship Channel, the guestswere treated to a barbecue dinner.

The Houston Citizens Chamber is one of many civicgroups invited by the Port Authority to tour the HoustonShip Channel.

Reverend Ray Martin; Willie Williams; E.C. Willis; Mrs. E.C. Willis, andRichard Leach, General Manager-Administration, Port of Houston.

Earl Loggias, President, Houston Citizens Chamber of Commerce; Mrs.Margaret Loggias, Fentres Bracewell, and Ernest Z. Clouser.

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Vernon Chambers; Ruby Chambers; Patti Barbee; Fentress Brocewell,and Jack Barbee.

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Mrs. Gladys Rosenberg; Mary Preston; Marjorie Estorge; MargaretClouse, and Mrs. Dot Curtis.

Earl Loggins; Richard Leach, Port of Houston; Ernest Z. CIouser and Er-nest F. Clouser.

Judge Cecil Bush; Fentress Bracewell, Chairman of the Port Com-mission; Roger Rosenberg, and Michael Scorcio, Executive Secretary tothe Port Commission.

J.K. Henderson, Controller, Port of Houston; James Bowie, HeightsSavings; Mrs. James Bowie; Ella Nunn, Small Business Development; R.T.Jennings, McGregor Bank, and Judge Cecil Bush.

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New Consuls General Join Houston’s CorpsThe Consul General of Colombia in Houston, Juan

Gilberto Moreno, was no stranger to Texas when he arrivedlast November to take over his current post. He had spent abrief time as a student at Texas A&M University and hadundergone U.S. Air Force basic training at Lackland AirForce Base in San Antonio, and so feels right at home in theLone Star State.

Mr. Moreno completed high school at a small Catholicschool in Rayne, Louisiana, and was graduated fromMiami University in Florida with a degree in Economics andPolitical Science. He met his American wife, Karen, at theUniversity, and it was while he was in Miami that he ap-plied for a position at the Colombian Consulate in that city.

His previous diplomatic posts have included positions asVice Consul in Miami; Second Secretary at the ColombianEmbassy in Stockholm; First Secretary and Interim Head ofMission at the Colombian Embassy in Santo Domingo;Assistant Undersecretary for Economic Affairs in theBogota Ministry for Foreign Relations; and Counsellor ofthe Permanent Colombian Mission to the United Nations inGeneva.

Mr. Moreno said he is particularly glad to be back inTexas as he is "already a cajun and can’t wait to become afull-fled~zed cowbov."

He added that his government considers this an importantpost as Houston is a large shipping, marketing and distrib-ution point for goods going to and coming from Colombia.He noted that the climate and customs of Texas are similarto those in his country and that there are close to 10,000Colombians in the state.

The Morenos’ son, 10, and daughter, 7, are attendingschool in Houston.

Hon. Juan Gilberto Moreno

Hassan Ali Hanjani, Houston’s second Consul General ofIran, has spent 27 years in the foreign service of his country.

After graduating from the University in Tehran with adegree in Political Science, Mr. Hanjani immediately joinedthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs and after two years oftraining was posted as attach6 in the Iranian Embassy in TheHague. He was then sent to Stockholm where he spent threeyears as third secretary in the Embassy.

Returning to Tehran, he spent three years in the protocoloffice before taking a position as Third Secretary in the Em-bassy in Ottawa. After one year in Canada, Mr. Hanjaniwas sent to Geneva where he spent three years with theIranian delegation to the United Nations. At the end of thethree years he had attained the rank of First Secretary.

He returned to Tehran to work for three-and-a-half yearsin the Cabinet of the Foreign Minister, Ardeshir Zahedi,who now is the Iranian Ambassador to the United States.

Mr. Hanjani then spent what he says was "a very happy"five years in the Embassy in Paris. When he returned toTehran, he was Chief Officer in tht~ Cabinet of the Ministerof Foreign Affairs, and then spent two years as the officerresponsible for receiving all official state guests, includingseveral presidents and prime ministers of various countries.

Mr. Hanjani and his wife of two years, Homa, areawaiting the birth of their first child. Mrs. Hanjani also hadbeen an officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and comesfrom a family of career dipolmats.

The Consul General, who arrived in Houston just afterChristmas, enjoys skiing and says he is beginning to enjoythe" dynamic game of basketball."

Hon. Hassan Ali Hanjani

July, 1977

HOUSTON COMMERCIAL ZONEAND TERMINAL AREA

MONTGOMERY

© 1977 Houston Port Bureau

July, 1977

This map depicts the geographical area of the enlargedHouston Commerical Zone and Terminal Area, whichbecame effective April 19, 1977, as a result of recent I.C.C.decision in Ex Parte No. MC-37 (Sub. No.-26) which being contested in the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.In the meantime, the I.C.C. decision results in an enormousterritory, exempt from regulation of the I.C.C., whichnormally requires a Public Convenience and NecessityCertificate. Thus, transportation charges within the zone arenot regulated and are negotiable, not subject to the I.C.C.for additional information, contact: Houston Port Bureau,Inc. (713) 228-7447

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Mrs. Marcella D. Perry, Port Commissioner; Jim Westmoreland, CityCouncilman; Mrs. Judson Robinson, Mrs. Homer Ford; Mrs. Jim West-moreland; Judson Robinson, City Councilman: Homer Ford, City Coun-cilman, and Mrs. E.A. Lyons.

Mrs. R.P. Leach; Mrs. Fentress Bracewell; Mrs. Frank Mancuso, andGeorge Twan, Consul of China.

Port EntertainsConsular Corps

The Port of Houston Authority’s annual reception anddinner honoring members of the Houston Consular Corpswas held recently and more than 100 Consuls, City ofHouston, Harris County and Port officials attended. Thereception was held aboard the SAMHOUSTON on the waydown the Ship Channel to the newly rebuilt San Jacinto Inn.Dinner and dancing followed at the Inn. Among the veryspecial guests were Mrs. T.K. Chu and son Bevin. T.K. Chuis a former Consul General of China and Dean of the Con-sular Corps in Houston and is now Chinese Ambassador toSaudi Arabia. Identified left to right, the following picturesare of some of the guests at the reception.

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Mrs. F. William Colburn; Carlos Montoya, Honorary Consul ofGuatemala; Frank Mancuso, City Councilman; Hyung Kun Kim, ConsulGeneral of Korea, and F. William Colburn, Port Counsel.

Paul Hedemann, Honorary Consul of Denmark; Mrs. Paul Hedemann;Mrs. Charles HalJson; Dr. Charles Hallson, Honorary Consul of Iceland,and Mrs. John Boulvin.

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Father Rivers Patout, Seamen’s Center Chaplain; Pat Nemic; ClaudiaBooker; Ogden H. Pemberton, Acting Consul of Liberia, and Dr. J.Reuben Scheeler, Honorary Consul of Haiti.

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Mrs. Will C. Hodgkins; Sabir Amawi, Honorary Consul of Jordan; Mrs.Clive Allen; Martin Lakocinski, Vice Consul of Sweden; Mrs. MartinLakocinski; Mrs. Kunihiko Murono, and Kunihiko Murono, ConsulGeneral of Japan.

Mrs. J.G. Moreno; Juan Gilberto Moreno, Consul General of Colombia;Mrs. H.B.M.E. Nijdam, and H.B.M.E. Nijdam, Vice Consul of theNetherlands.

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Councilman Frank Mann; Bevin Chu, son of the former Chinese ConsulGeneral; Mrs. J.E. McEwan; J.E. McEwan, Consul General of Nicaragua,and Mrs. Martha Toledo Ocampo, Consul General of Peru.

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Will Hodgkins, Consul of the United Kingdom; Mrs. Mike Scorcio; E.A.(Squatty) Lyons, County Commissioner; M.T. Kuo, Consul of China; MikeScorcio, Port Liaison with the Consular Corps, and Vera de Faro, ViceConsul of Brazil.

Leonard Patillo, Houston Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. Leonard Patillo;Louis Vorms, Consul General of France; Mrs. Ignace van Steenberge;Mrs. Louis Vorms; Catherine Vorms, and Ignace van Steenberge, ConsulGeneral of Belgium and Dean of the Consular Corps.

R.P. Leach, Port General Manager-Administration; Mrs. Yvonne Pan-toja, Consul General of Brazil; Mrs. J.K. Henderson; J.K. Henderson,Port Controller, and Ruth G. Boettner Cattoni, Consul of Paraguay.

Mrs. Carlos Monsanto; Clive Allen, Belgian Trade Commissioner; Mrs.Frank Mann, and Guillaume Duym from Brussels.

John Boulvin, Chancellor in the Belgian Consulate General; Mrs. ShanChung Lee; Shan Chung Lee, Consul General of China, and Carlos Soto,Honorary Consul of HonduraS.

Monica Pantoja; Mrs. Jochen Trebesch; Achille Arcidiacono, HonoraryConsul of Italy, and Mrs. Carlos Soto.

Peter Juul, Consulate of Denmark: Mrs. Peter Juul: Alberto M. Vilela,Consul General of Argentina, and Mrs. Leticia Umana, Consul General ofCosta Rica.

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After the heaving line is received by the ship’s crew, it is attached tothe mooring lines. Here the linemen are pulling the heaving line whichis attached to the ship’s bow or head line.

MAKE IT SECURE

Mooring A Ship Is

’Same Old Business’With AutomationBy JERRY BROWN

"Slack away!""Stand by your lines!""Take in the slack!"

These are some common expressions heard along thedocks at the Port of Houston. They are orders to the menhandling the lines for mooring a ship. Their meanings are:"Slack away!" or "Slack off! "--Pay out the line allowingit to form an easy bight. "Stand by your lines! "--Man thelines, ready to cast off. "Take in the slack!"--Heave in onthe line, but do not take a strain.

Mooring is the name given to the trade of tying up a shipat a dock.

Since the beginning of sea travel, in ports throughout theworld the necessity to secure ships to pier has been of theutmost importance. It is the final function of a ship’s crewafter reaching its port of destination and one of the first ser-vices performed at any given port.

The primary purpose of a port is to provide terminalfacilities and services to vessels.

Securing ships to a wharf is a service performed by specialfirms called " mooring companies." These are harbororganizations that earn a living by giving assistance to shipsin connection with mooring and unmooring. Their job is tohandle the ship’s ropes and secure them or release themfrom bitts, quays bollards or dolphins. They are often con-trolled by a local association and they are remunerated ac-cording to a tariff settled between themselves on the onehand, and the shipowners and steamship agents on theother.

In Houston, mooring services evolved out of necessity.When that first steamer came up the tangled and windingBuffalo Bayou to Allen’s Landing, in January of 1837someone had the final responsibility of tying her up to awharf.

Mooring by professionals in Houston isn’t a very oldbusiness. When the Houston Ship Channel first opened in1914, there were no mooring companies around to handlethe task, only a few enterprising men with strong backs androwboats used as mooring launches.

Today however, there are three mooring companies, GulfMooring & Services Inc., Houston Boatmen Inc., andHouston Mooring Company, the oldest of the three.

It was the forefathers of the Houston Mooring Companyand their counterparts that pioneered the trade. From theirrelentless perseverance to become recognized as a necessityin the shipping industry, came the I.L.A. local 1438 Boat-men’s Association, labor pool for the mooring industry.

All three mooring companies have standing contracts withthe union. The union provides linemen for the companies. Italso negotiates wages, overtime, zone operations, travel ex-pense and many other operations on the Ship Channel bymooring companies.

The tools of the trade are basically the same, just largerand automated now days. The linemen still use boats on oc-casions to moor up to dolphins or other stations in water.The boats are called mooring launches. They are usuallytwenty-foot-long, one and one quarter inch mahoganyplanking boats, equipped with a 220-horsepower V8 inboard

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motor with a mooring bitt on the stern for pulling heavylines. It is also common for the men to use pickup trucks toheave the heavy wire used as mooring lines on the largetankers.

A mooring job begins with a call from a steamship agentalerting mooring company of an arriving ship. Workingdirectly with the Houston Pilots and tug boats, the mooringdispatch office is then notified when the vessel is boarded bythe pilot in Galveston Bay. The pilot in turn notifies thelinemen once he passes Morgan’s Point of where he willdock and which lines he wishes to go on first.

This process requires perfect timing and coordination sothat the turn-around time of the ship is expedited. Con-sequently each mooring company is in constant touch byradio or walkie-talkie with port people, ship crew, steamshipagents, his own men, the pilot aboard the ship, and theHouston Maritime Association, which keeps him posted onthe movement of the ship on the channel.

Once the pilot and tugboat maneuver the ship to theassigned dock, the mooring men are called on to do therething.

They throw a light line from the shore or from their boat

After removing the heaving line from the bow line, the lineman putshis back into pulling the heavy line to the bitt while the tugboat holds theship to dock.

to the ship. A piece of lead, called a "monkey fist" in thetrade, is attached to the head of the line to make the tosseasier and more accurate.

The ship’s crew attaches the heavy mooring lines to thelight lines and then the mooring team, of about four men,haul the big lines to the docks or their small boats.

Mooring of a big freighter is a task requiring experienceand finesse to avoid damage to the ship and to the dock, andto expedite the turn-around of the ship.

Each ship is equipped with its own mooring lines, andeach line has an eye at the end of the rope. The eye iscarefully slipped over the steel bitt on the dock securing theship from drifting.

The average number of lines used for mooring a ship isseven, three at the stern, three at the bow, and one in themiddle of the ship. Each line is given a name for easy han-dling. They are; the Bow Line, After Bow Spring, FowardBow Spring, Waist Breast After Quarter Spring FowardQuarter Spring, and the Stern Line.

In mooring to a dock a line run through the bull-nose orchock in the front of the ship is known as a bow line or

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Tugboats are used to maneuver large freighters to assigned dockswhere linemen wait to moor her. Crew members can be seen on theship’s bow, waiting to work the lines.

head line, and a corresponding one from the stern chock isknown as a "stern line". Usually they lead well up the dockand tend to reduce the fore and aft motion of a ship whenmoored.

The forward or after lines gives the direction in which theline extends from the ship.

Waist and quarter gives the part of the vessel from whichthe line is run.

Breast or spring line give the use of the line. A breast lineis at right angles to the ship’s keel and prevents a ship frommoving athwartship. A spring line leads forward or aft andprevents a vessel from moving aft or forward respectively.

Mooring is only a small part of port operations, but it is atremendously important part. There are many people andvarious jobs in connection with port operations, all are im-portant, and they are all part of one team.

"Cast of all lines!" A linemans’ day is done when he hears this order onthe last line. Here the lineman is unmooring the bow line, the last linefor this particular job.

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Mrs. Roy Strange Jr.; The Rev. Roy Strange, Jr., Chaplain; Pat Nemic;Father Rivers Patout, Chaplain, and Dr. Jack Brannon, Director.

Jostein Haughe, Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce; Mrs.Walter Farnsworth; Capt. Walter Farnsworth, Director; Clarence Dupre,Director; Mrs. Harald Traavik, Harald Traavik, Vice Consul of Norway.

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Mrs. Jack Brannon; Albert Liedts, Director; Mrs. Clarence Dupre; Mrs.RalphFreidmann; Ralph Freidmann, Director, and Mrs. Likower.

Mrs. Robert B. Lowe; The Rev. Robert B. Lowe, Chaplain: Mrs. OddvarMichaelsen, and The Rev. Oddvar Michaelsen, Chaplain.

Seamen ’s CenterDirectors See PortMembers of the Houston International Seamen’s Center

Board of Directors and the chaplains of the Center werespecial guests of the Port of Houston Authority recently at areception and dinner aboard the inspection vessel SAMHOUSTON. The Center, visited by more than 63,000seamen a year, is located on Port property close to the NorthSide docks. The Center provides sports activites, a libraryand beer bar, and social activites as well as evening chapelservices every day. The photos on this page, identified left toright, are of some of the Directors and special guests who at-tended the dinner.

Paul Hedemann, Director; C.E. Bullock, Port General Manager-Operations; Mrs. Fentress Bracewell; Mrs. C.E. Bullock: FentressBracewell, Chairman of the Port of Houston Commission, and Mrs. PaulHedemonn.

Mrs. Betty Nagle, Director of Volunteers; Jack Hall, Center GeneralManager; Mrs. Jack Hall, Mrs. Louis Dupre, and Louis Dupre, CenterTreasurer.

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Leach is Named General Manager of PortRichard P. Leach will become

General Manager of the Port ofHouston Authority effective Septem-ber 1, George W. Altvater, PortAuthority Executive Director, announ-ced.

Mr. Leach, who has served asGeneral Manager-Administration ofthe Authority since 1973, will beresponsible for the "day to day affairs"of the organization, Mr. Altvater said.

An engineering graduate of RiceUniversity, Mr, Leach joined the PortAuthority staff as a structural engineerin 1958. He has since served the

Authority as Administrative Engineer,Chief Engineer, Director ofEngineering and Planning, and DeputyPort Director-Engineering and Plan-ning.

Mr. Altvater will remain asExecutive Director of The PortAuthority.

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DEFELICE JOINS TMT

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The Consular Ladies Club of Houston recently held a benefit luncheon for the InternationalStudent Loan Fund of the Institute of International Education. Mrs. George Bush, wife of the formerU.S. Representative to the People’s Republic of China, spoke on her experiences in Peking. Theluncheon was a resounding success and the group was able to present a check for close to $3,000to Mrs. Alice R. Pratt, Regional Director of the liE. Shown at the presentation, left to right, are Mrs.Ignace van Steenberge, wife of the Belgian Consul General and Chairman of the luncheon; Mrs.Pratt; Mrs. Claude Bovet, wife of the Honorary Consul of Switzerland; Mrs. Carlos Soto, wife of theHonorary Consul of Honduras: and Mrs. Paul E. Hedemann, wife of the Honorary Consul of Den-mark.

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The M/V PACIFICO a vessel of the Galapagos Line S.A. made her firstcall to the Port of Houston recently and her Captain was presented with acolor plaque of the Port of Houston. Shown on the boat deck are fromleft: Bill Suggs, Norton, Lilly & Co., General agents for Galapagos Line;Capt. V. Mino, General Manager, Galapagos Line, Ted Sumerlin, Adver-tising Manager, Port of Houston; Capt. Pablo Vasconez M., Master of thevessel, and C.L. Rankin, Norton, Lilly & Co.

Transoceanic Opens OfficeTransoceanic shipping Company, Inc., international

freight forwarders and customhouse brokers, has opened anoffice in Baltimore and appointed Melvin T. Rupinski, Jr.,as manager.

The company is located in the recently completed, 21story World Trade Center overlooking the inner harbor indowntown Baltimore. Mr. Rupinski, a native of Baltimore,is a veteran of 16 years in the freight forwarding field. He isa member of the Propeller Club of Baltimore. He is marriedto the former Christine Fleischell and they are the parents ofthree children.

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