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PORT OF HOUSTON
AUGUST, 1966
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MANCHESTEROilers You
At The
Port of
HOUSTON
If you have shipping that needs fast, economical loading orunloading facilities, you’ll save time and money by usingManchester Terminal. Here it is easy for ships, trucks andrail 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
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Only Humble providesweatherprool pipoline fuelingTo help you keep big vessels on schedule, Humblemakes direct pipeline delivery of bunker fuels at allPort of Houston City Docks and at Long Reach. Thiscuts turn-around time and improves scheduling in anyweather . . . can save you as much as 12 hours in foulweather. Another reason for specifying Humble--where you get the fuels and lubricants that are the"World’s First Choice!" H U M B L E
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SERVICES FROM HOUSTONand other Gulf ports
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PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE
Official PublicationOf the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District
Volume 8
Directory OfPort Commissioners
And StaffFOR THE
Navigation District
August, 1966 No. 8
Content~Search For Oil Under The Sea ............................ 8
W. N. Blanton Retires ............................................. 10
HOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanR. H. PRUETT, CommissionerE. H. HENDERSON, CommissionerW. D. HADEN, II, CommissionerW. C. WELLS, Commissioner
J. P. TURNER, Executive DirectorTRAVIS L. SMITH, IlI
Director o/ Engineering and PlanningGEORGE W. ALTVATER, Managing Director o]
Trade Relations and DevelopmentC. E. BULLOCK, Director o/ Port OperationsJ. L. LOCKETT, JR., CounselS. B. BRUCE, County AuditorVAUGHN ]~I. BRYANT, Director o/ International
RelationsEDWARD J. FAY, Director, World Trade CenterLLOYD GREGORY, Director o] lnJormationRICrIARD P. LEACH, Chie[ EngineerJ. R. CURTIS, Terminal ManagerK. P. RODEN,
Acting Manager o/ Grain ElevatorW. J. STAGNER, Manager, Storage WarehousesJ. W. HATCIlETT, Superintendent,
Bulk Materials Handling PlantV. D. WAFER, Accounts ManagerJ. T. WALL, Purchasing ManagerK. W. STEPHENS, Personnel Manager and
World Trade Building ManagerC. L. SHUPTR1NE, Chie] Security OfficerW. E. REDMON, Maintenance SuperintendentT. E. WHATLEY, Administrative AssistantV. D. WILLIAMS, Administrative Assistant
SALES OFFICESEDWARD P. MOORE, District Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, Assistant
25 Broadway, New York, New YorkHUME A. HENDERSON, District Sales Manager
Board of Trade Building, Chicago, IllinoisJOHN R. WEILER, District Sales ManagerC. A. ROUSSER, JR.,
District Sales Representative1519 Capitol Avenue, Houston, Texas
EXECUTIVE OFFICES1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford Street
Telephone CApitol 5-0671P. O. Box 2562, Houston, Texas 77001
Scene At The World Trade Club ............................... 12
Meet August C. Schipplick ............................................ 13
The Houston Port Bureau Reports ............................ 14
News In Views Around The Port ................................... 15
Visitors See The Port of Houston ................................. 16
Scandinavian-American Line To Observe Centennial ............... 17
Houston Steamship Agents ............................... 30
Port of Houston Shipping Directory .............................. 31
Sailing Schedule of General Cargo Ships ....................... 32
THE COVER
The M. V. NEBRASKA is being nudged up to a dock at the Port of Houston.For more about the interesting Scandinavian-American Line see Page 17.
The Port of Houston MagazineTED SUSIERLIN, Editor
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.
AUGUST, 1966 7
The hlgh-speed all-aluminum crewboat MERCURY pulls up to the supply vessel GEMINI, sister ship of the JUPITER, following commissioning
SEARCH FOR OIL UNDER THE SEAOffshore Drilling Depends On
Ships For Men And Supplies
By CARL D. BONDInternational Relations Representative
HOUSTON IS THE CENTER of a whole new world in themarine industry--the activity caused by offshore drillingfor oil with its attendant need for moving men and suppliesquickly between stmre and blue water installations in nearlyally kind of weather.
Astro-Marine. Inc. of Houston is one of the new breedof oil industry-0riented marine operators--or marine orientedoil operators who have abandoned the carly make-shift ves-sels and equipment to develop new techniques of operatingoff-shore.
In the early days of nffsh()re oil activity the operatorsused converted surplus navy craft, inland barges, and hastilyrequisitioned fishing and shrimping boats. These were adc-quate for the swamp and shallow bay areas but when theoil industry moved "off soundings," it was time to moveup to something bctter.
Astro-Marinc has put into service three classes of vesselsfor use offshore: 90.font all aluminum crewboats, 125 to150 foot all-steel, deep "V", double chin(’, hull supply vessels,and 165 foot occanngraphic research vessels.
All three types were designed and built to meet the needfor high speed, high load capacity, easy riding and easymaintenance.
Speed is necessary because of the high cost of offshorerig operation. Rigs in the Gulf of Mexico cost about $8,000per 24-hour day to operate. Any delay caused by slow-downof regular supply delivery or in getting emergency parts toa rig is costly and often dangerous.
Helicopters are used to supply the offshore platforms withmany things but often the needed items are too big, too bulky
or too heavy for the ’copters or the weather is too bad foreven the birds to fly.
The older boats are generally too slow, the flat-bottomedinland waterway vessels too rough riding, and the shrimpboats poorly laid out for oil field hauling.
According to Astro-Marine officials, each class of theirboats has been designed to deliver the men or goods mosteffectively when needed.
The company’s three 90 foot aluminum crew boats, forexample, were built by Breaux’s Baycraft of Loreauville,Louisiana and are completely air conditioned and centrallyheated. The lounge scats $1 passengers in airplane-type re-clining seats, which are equipped with foot rests and backguards. The boats have a six bunk stateroom for us(; in theevent it: is necessary to transport sick or injured men.
The three vessels( the SATURN, the VENUS and the MER-CURY, are fully cquipped with radar, radio-telephone andrecording fathometcrs and maintain regular schedules tooffshore platforms 100 miles and more out in the Gulf inalmost any type of weather. They are reported to maintaina speed of 22 knots in five to eight foot seas.
The 125 foot to 150 foot snpply boats are all-Houstonproducts, having been designed by Houston naval architectRobert E. Schuller. Jr., and huih by Mangone ShipbuildingCompany of Houston. The design is that of a "model" hull---one that has a continuous curving line on every plane fromtop rail to keel. This makcs for a very seakindly hull andincreased speeds.
A somewhat unusual method of construction was developedby Ivan Mangone. president of the shipbuilding firm, for
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building the vessels. The craft are built in two longitudinalsections, using the center line as a flat base from which tobuild. When the two halves of the hulls are completed, hugecranes lift them to be welded together.
Mangone reports that the method offers several advantages,a main one being that overhead welds are reduced to aminimum. Handling of hull plates is easier because theycan be laid in place on the frames rather than having to beheld in place by special jigs during welding, as is necessaryin conventional hull-building methods.
Deck arrangement on the vessels is especially suited foroffshore supply work. The deckhouse and bridge are locatedforward, giving the helmsman good visibility for the frequentclose maneuvering called for at dock and rigside.
The uncluttered after deck is ideal for handling the heavy,bulky items used by the oil industry and for the large trucksused by many of the service companies. The 125 foot MARSwas the first vessel delivered to Astro-Marine by Mangone.The larger 150 foot JUPITER and GEMINI boats were de-livered late in 1965 and early 1966.
The GEMINI and the JUPITER have 112 feet of cargodeck space aft and 69,000 gallon fuel capacities. They cruiseat 15 miles per hour for more than 8000 miles. Poweredby a pair of 12V-71 tandem General Motors diesels, ratedat 1000 hp. each, the vessels are capable of carrying morethan 700 tons of fuel and supplies.
Air conditioned in all living and work areas, each vesselhas 19 berths and a complete galley with mess facilities.They are certificated by the U. S. Coast Guard and meetABS load line requirements.
The 165 foot oceanographic research ships under con-struction at Todd Shipyards’ Houston plant follow the samebasic design as that of the supply vessels. They are expectedto be in service late this year.
The growing demand for equipment designed and builtspecifically to help man discover the under-ocean worldprompted Astro-Marine to build these vessels, the first ocean-ographic ships in the Company’s fleet. They represent aninvestment in excess of $1.5 million.
The two w’ssels, the LEO and the VIRGO, are each to bepowered by two 16-567 General Motors marine diesels ratedat 1600 hp. pcr engine.
All eight new vessels put into service by Astro-Marinewere purchased as complete package deals through the MarineDivision of Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc. of Houston,largest distributor of GM engines.
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Another launching for Astro-Marine, this time at the Houston Division ofTodd Shipyards. The 165-foot oceanographic researck vessel VIRGO joinsits sister ship LEO in the waters of the Houston Ship Channel with agreat splash.
Two halves of the offshore marine supply vessel M. V. JUPITER assumetheir final shape in the unique method of construction.
M. V. JUPITER slips into the water of Bray’s Bayou at the Port ofHouston after being welded together. The open deck arrangement is easilyseen here.
AUGUST, 1966 9
W. N. BlantonReti,es And IsHono,ed gy City..jde Has Se,ved
By VAUGHN M. BRYANTDirector of International Relations
TIlE PORT OF" HOUSTO.X said "thanks and well done" last
month to W. N. Blanton--civic leader, businessman, philan-thropist and churchman--for more than a dozen years offaithful and valued services as a commissioner of tile Nay|ga-llon District.
Some 250 friends from government, business and hiseimreb gathered on July 18 in the World Trade Club tohonor lhis elder statesman-citizen of Houston and to recallhis dynamic hand in moulding the leadership and progressof the city for nearly forty years.
It was a leadersldp that brought Houston from far backamong ttw nation’s cities and ports in 1929, to rank todaysixth as a metropolis aud third as a port in the nation, andto surpass all other cities ill the South.
As executive head of the Houston Chamber of Commercefor twenty-two years (1929-1951), "Bill" Blauton was cred-ited with responsibility for many of Houston’s advances asa medical, livestock, business, trading and educational center.He later carried this same zeal, drive and |lair for successinto the fieht of business as oilman and banker.
It was in mid-1953 that then Mayor Roy Hofheinz namedMr. Blanton a commissioner of the Harris County HoustonShip Channel Navigation District -the five man t)oard thatdirects the Port of Houston’s activity and progress and whichwas then twaded by ~arrcn S. t)ellows, civic leader andbuilder who |lad previously l,ecn president of the ChamberOf Conlllleree.
Twelve and one half years later Mr. Blanton asked tostep down from the Port (~ommission aud Mayor Louie Welchtiffs spring named \V. C. Wells Io the vacancy.
BUT A GR,’~TEFI 1. (]ITY COUNCIL appointed the tireless anddedicated civic worker "Port Commlssiouer Emeritus" and"Ambassador at Large" for the Port of Houston, and in thiscapacity W. N. Blanh)n late this spring completed a trip tothe Middle East and Europe where he continued Io sing thepraises of Houston and its port to all who would listen.
W. N. Blantun call look back on a solid record of achieve-men! during the time tw was a Navigation I)istriet commis-sioller.
When he came, tile District’s ~harves ended at No. 16just below the Public Grain Elevator. but during Iris tenurethe Port Commission:
Built \Vharw.s No. 8. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. 22, 23, 2.1, 25,and lmxe Numbers 26. 27 and 2° halfway through construe-lion.
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W. N. BLANTON
Enlarged tin(" Public Grain Elevator from 3.5 million to6 million bushels.
Built the 83.5 million ~:orld Trade Buihling.Erected a bulk materials handling plan! on Green’s Bayou.Built the Port ()perations building, maintenance sheds,
access roads, and many renovations and improvements ofexisting facilities.
Ill all, nearly 840 million, most of it financed by revenuebonds, was speul for new construction and improvementsduring the more Ihan twelve years W. N. Blanton servedthe Port Commission, and the results have beeu increasedrevenue, increased tonnage and solid expansion assured forfuture ,~ ears.
It was the \Vorld Trade Building, how,.ver, wMch perhapsshouht best s/and as a memorial to tint, Blanton vears with!lw Navigalion District.
THE H~.NDSOME El,EVEN STORY, structure of steel, glass andmarble which |muses Houston’s interna!ional trade activity,bad long been a Blanton dream. As a member of the PortCommission he fought for its development h) give Houstonan international trade develolnment facility to meet those ofcompeting ports.
The achiewmwnts of Mr. Blanton ow.r his lifetime arc toonumerous to lnenIiolt but ~crc recounted in auecdote and
Iributes by those participatino ill the dinner in his honor.Lloyd Grc~gorv. director of informal|on fur the Port of Hous-ton~ presided and tributes came from Mayor Welch, Chamberof Commerce lhesident Gall Whilcomb. Chamber of Com-merce F]xeetllixe Vice President Marvin Hurley, former Hum-ble ()il & Relining Company President Hines H. Baker, theRev. J. I(emwth Shamblin of St. 1,uke’s Methodist Church,and others.
They lohl of Iris role ill bringing the Baylor College ofIContinued on Page 251
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At left, Commissioner E. H. Henderson presents Mr. Blanton with a plaquefrom his fellow Commissioners, and right, Garvice D. Kincaid of Lexington,Ky., makes him a Colonel on the staff of Gay. Edward T. Breathltt.
Port Commissioner R. H. (Red) Pruett, left, with Port Executive DirectorJ. P. Turner and Marvin Hurley, executive vice president of the HoustonChamber of Commerce.
The Port’s newest Commissioner, W. C. Wells, center, flanked by GeorgeW. Altvater, managing director of trade relations and development, andC. E. Bullock, director of port operations.
Warren S. Bellows, left, former Port Commission chairman, with MayorLouie Welch and Wright Morrow, attorney, civic leader and former Demo-cratic National Committeeman.
A genera/ view of the more than 250 friends who gathered in the WorldTrade Club for a reception and banquet honoring W. N. Blanton an hisretirement from the Navigation District.
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w. N. Blanton is shown with five of his six sons, from left to rightJoseph F.; W. N., Jr.; Benjamin F.; Jack S., and J. Neal. TheRev. Paul G. Blanton of Claremore, Ca/., was unable to attend.
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AT THE
There are more than a dozen Japanese trading firms in Houston plusJapanese steamship lines with representatives and other business activitieshaving to do with the fast-rising Japanese economy. To keep in touch witheach other they all meet monthly in the World Trade Club with Consul Gen-eral Hideho Tanaka. Here, left to right, are a few of those gathered in theClub’s Board Room for the July luncheon: T. Okura, Ataka Co., N.Y.; N.Kurita, Sumitomo Shoji Co.; T. Hashimato, Marubenl lida America; ConsulGeneral Tanaka, and Y. Yokoyama, Mitsui-O.S.K. steamship line.
W{IRLI] TRAFIE
A long way from Genoa but renewing old friendships in the HoustonWorld Trade Club is Henry G. Diaz, center, manager in the Mediterraneanfor Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., based in Genoa. At right is George W.Altvater, managing director of trade relations and development for the Portof Houston, who visited Diaz and Genoese foreign traders in May (Port ofHouston MAGAZINE, July, 1966), and at left is F. LaMar Betz, assistant of-fice manager for Lykes in Houston.
Barber Steamship Lines, Inc. Vice President J. J. O’Dea, New York, washonored guest at a reception given in the World Trade Club by the Line’sHouston Agent, Biehl & Company. Here in the President’s Room are, leftto right, Don S. Waheed, general sales manager, Biehl; O’Dea; M. 14.Landes, vice president, Transoceanic Shipping Co., Inc.; and F. Val Thomp-son, operations, Biehl & Company.
Liberia’s ambassador to the United States and Mrs. S. Edward Peal,center, were honored guests of the officers of the Houston World TradeAssociation at a luncheon in the World Trade Club last month during avisit of Ambassador Peal to Texas. On the left is Hon. Dr. Charles W.Pemberton, honorary vice consul of Liberia in Houston, and at the rightDr. J. Leon Peacock, in charge of the protocol arrangements for the visit.
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Carl Theodore Steldle, center, director of the Frankfurt InternationalFairs, Frankfurt, Germany, spoke to a group of Houston business leadersat the World Trade Club recently on "The Frankfurt International Market-ing Arena," its many different types of industrial exhibitions held in theFair’s facilities each year, and how they help international trade. WithSteldle are Ashley W. Lott, vice president, Lykes Brothers. Steamship Co.,Inc., left, and Sam D. W. Low, program advisor, Houston Regions Customsoffice. Steldle’s visit was sponsored by the German American Chamber ofCommerce and was under the patronage of the Germany Consulate,Houston.
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Another In A Series Men Who Make The Port of Houston Hum
Meet August C Schtppltck
He’s Texas Manaqer H[
/lhaunz,a S.S. Aqency
By LLOYD GREGORY
Information Director
IN MOMENTS OF REFLECTION, August C. "Augie" Schipplick
marvels that he, "a West Texas farm boy," ever got into thesteamship business in Houston.
Mr. Schipplick is Texas manager of the bustling AbaunzaSteamship Agency corporation. The main office is in the newInternational Trade Mart in New Orleans. The Houston officeis 203 Marine Building; the Galveston office in U.S. NationalBank building. There is also a Dallas office.
Gonzalo Abaunza, Jr. is president of the corporation.
Mr. Schipplick, a bachelor, was born September 18, 1934on a livestock farm near Winters, between Abilene and SanAngelo. After graduation from Winters high school, he stud-ied geology at the University of Texas. Then came three yearsin Uncle Sam’s air force.
"Augie" moved to Houston in 1957, and got a clerk’s jobwith Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. He worked for Collin andGissel, steamship agents, and for the P. D. Marchessini Com-pany before joining Abaunza in 1960 as Galveston man-ager. In March, 1963, he was transferred to Houston as Texasmanager.
The blonde, gray-eyed, slender, six-foot tall Mr. Schipplickhas no hobbies. "I find my work takes all my energy," heexplained. "I find my job interesting and challenging; but Ilook forward to the time when there will be less paper workand red tape in the steamship agency business," he said."There must be an easier way to get the work done."
A steamship agent represents steamship owners or char-ters. The main lines represented by Abaunza are: China Mer-chants Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., and the Shipping Corpora-tion of India.
Among the main imports handled by these lines are: coffeefrom Ethiopia; tea and burlap from India; plywood, toysand hand tools from Japan and Taiwan.
"One reason this work is so fascinating is that each shipyou handle is different, with problems all its own," Mr. Schip-plick explained.
You would not call "Augie" a joiner, although he gets akick out of his membership in the Propeller Club, Port ofHouston. He is a member of the Lutheran church.
Far removed from his West Texas birth place, "Augiehopes one day to return. "That’s a long time and hundredsof ships in the future," he smiled. "You can say that, whileI live in the city, I’m still a country boy at heart."
AUGUST C. SCHIPPLICKAUGUST, 1966
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SHIPPERS TO BENEFIT from reduced handlingcharges at Port of Houston on container-ized freight scheduled to become effectiveAugust 25, 1966. These charges will applyon all kinds of freight except householdgoods. The charges to be assessed are9¼4 per i00 ibs. when the container orvan maximum dimensions are 7 feet 6 inchesin length, 6 feet in width and 7 feet inheight, gross weight not less than 2,000ibs. or more than 6,000 ibs. and 11¼4 peri00 ibs. when the container or van maximumdimensions are i0 feet in length, 8 feet6 inches in width and 8 feet 6 inchesin height, gross weight over 6,000 ibs.but not exceeding 15,000 ibs. Also, addi-tional reduced handling charges are sched-uled to become effective August 6 of 10¼4per i00 ibs. on steel sheets in coilsbanded, strapped or secured with eye ofcoil opened to permit handling by fork-lift trucks, maximum dimensions 48 inchesin diameter by 42 inches in width, maximumweight 9,000 ibs. per unit; 9~# per i00ibs. on aluminum sheets in coils, bandedtogether or secured in a matter to permithandling by fork-lift trucks, minimumdimensions 32 inches by 32 inches, maximumdimensions 32 inches by 47 inches, not ex-ceeding 45 inches in height, gross weightnot less than 2,000 ibs. per unit and9¼4 per i00 ibs. on fertilizer and fertil-izer materials, unitized on wing-typepellets, minimum base dimensions 48 inchesby 48 inches, maximum base dimensions 54inches by 66 inches, gross weight not lessthan 16,000 ibs. per unit.
THE TEXAS PORTS ASSOCIATION, at theirAnnual Meeting on July 12, voted to opposethe merger of the Rock Island Railroad withthe Southern Pacific and Union Pacific
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION de-clined to suspend and investigate a 6percent increase in the charges on Less-Truck-Load shipments weighing 1,000 ibs. orless and an increase in the minimum chargeto $3.50 published by the SouthwesternMotor Freight Bureau scheduled to becomeeffective July 15, 1966. However, the Com-mission did suspend schedules publishedby the Southwestern Motor Freight Bureaucarriers proposing to increase the chargeson LTL shipments weighing in excess of1,000 lb. but less than 5,000 ibs. by 3percent, LTL shipments weighing in excessof 5,000 ibs. but less than i0,000 ibs. by1 percent. These increases were originallyscheduled to become effective July I, butwere voluntarily postponed by the carriers,as result of the many petitions for sus-pension and investigation of the increasesfiled by various shipper interests.
THE SOUTHWESTERN MOTOR CARRIERS haveunder consideration in CCMFA Proposal 4557and SWMFB Docket 5274, a revision of thepresent Houston terminal area description.This description dictates the boundaries inwhich the motor carriers will performpickup and delivery service. The basicHouston terminal area description in motorcarrier tariff reflects the Houston citylimits prior to 1949 of approximately 84square miles. Today Houston’s corporatelimits embrace approximately 446 squaremiles of territory. The proposed re-defini-tion of the Houston terminal area is vitalin order to determine the proper terminalarea and rate application in the greaterHouston metropolitan area.
PENALTY SURCHARGE of ~3.00 per shipmenton Less-Truck-Load and Any-Quantity ship-
Railroads before the Interstate Commerce ments of export or import freight han-
Commission. It was the consensus of opinion dled over piers, wharves or docks at Texas
that all the Texas Gulf ports needed theand Louisiana ports has been cancelled by
benefit of a strong north-south trans-continental railroad, linking the Gulf withthe northen border of the United States.The approval of the proposed merger woulddestroy this north-south transcontinentallink. The Texas Gulf ports feel that thepresent Rock Island System should notbe divided into two or more parts.
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the Southwestern motor carriers. Previ-ously, the Houston Port Bureau was success-ful in petitioning to the Interstate Com-merce Commission to suspend and investigatethe lawfulness of the proposed charge. Thesurcharge was published by the Southwest-ern Motor Freight Bureau, effective June 5,as a revenue measure and was applied onlyon foreign commerce.
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Chamber of Commerce President Gall Whitcomb reads a proclamation onbehalf of Mayor Lauie Welch at a meeting of the South Texas RegionalExport Expansion Council in the World Trade Club, making the third weekin July Export Expansion Week in Houston. Center is Judge Roy L. Morgan,director of field service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, and atleft is Ray R. Brlmble, president of Brimble Brothers Lumber Co., Inc. andpresident of the South Texas REEC. Judge Morgan, who was guest of honorand principal speaker, also conferred diplomas of membership from Secre-tary of Commerce Cannot an twelve new members of the South Texas Council.
The Consul General of Venezuela, Elias Casado, right, presents a checkto International Bank President John W. Hazard, center, to be used in pur-chasing two fire trucks for Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. The trucks, to beshipped via Port of Houston, are to be supplied by Houston Fire & SafetyEquipment Co., represented by George L. Fox, Jr., between Hazard andCasado. Selection of the fire trucks was made by Rafael Bellorin Malaver,second from left, chairman of the fire truck committee of Puerto La Cruz. Onthe left is Venezuelan Vice Consul Octavia AIfonzo.
One of the world’s largest trucks, the Unit Rig M-120 Lectra Haul thatweighs more than 60 tons itself and carries a 120-ton payload, waits an aPort of Houston wharf at the Long Reach Docks to be loaded aboard theGulf and South American Steamship Co.’s GULF BANKER. Consigned to theMarcona Mining Co., San Juan, Peru, the unit is the first of 12 beingshipped from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, manufacturer for use in the Peruvianmines. Forwarding on the shipment is being handled by Harper, Robinson& Co.’s Houston office.
NEWSIN
VIEWS
AROUND THE PORT
An exhibition of more than 140 original woodcuts, engravings and etch-ings including works of Albrecht Durer, 15th Century German artist; Rem-brandt van Ryn, 17th Century Dutch artist; and Francisco de Goya, 18th-19th Century Spanish artist was held in the World Trade Building Auditoriumduring July by Florence M. Hall and All A. Abssi, owners of World TradeCenter Imports. Shown in the photo is Durer’s "St. Jerome in Penitance,"dated 1497. The exhibit is valued at about $100,000 according to Abssiand Hall.
AUGUST, 1966
Faster handffng of railcars at the Navigation District’s Bulk MaterialsHandling plant is expected with two large Caterpillar car pushers deliveredrecently by Mustang Tractor & Equipment Co. of Houston. The pushers arespecially adapted front-end loaders that have had the scoops removed andreplaced with railcar couplings. Use of the car pushers cuts car handlingtime in half as compared with other methods commonly used. W. E. Redmon,center, Navigation District maintenance superintendent, took delivery of theunits from E. A. Tiarks, right, Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, Illinols, andClifford H. Johnson, general sales manager, Mustang Tractor.
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Visitors See ThePort of Houston
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Kenneth P. Roden, left, acting manager of the Public Grain Elevator, washost aboard the SAM HOUSTON to a group of five German wheat spe-cialists who toured the nation’s wheat producing states as guests of theGreat Plains Wheat, Inc., topping off with a visit to Houston, the nation’sleading wheat port. In foreground is Joseph Raley, marketing specialist andtour director from Kansas City. Others, from left, are Erwin Jaus, Stuttgart;Franz Beck, Munich; Richard Petri, Hamburg; Paul Hess, U.S. Embassy inBonn, and Werner /:ischbach, Braunschweig. All are active in German wheatand baking circles.
ABOARD
Werner Tobaben, left, of the Ozean-Stinnes Lines of Hamburg, Germany,spent several days in Houston with Biehl & Co., a~ents, as part of an orien-tation program. He is shown here on the SAM HOUSTON with Hans-JoachimSpringer of the Biehl agency.
THE SAM HOUSTON
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On the bridge of the SAM HOUSTON before a trip down the Ship Chan-nel are Carl H. Moberg, traffic manager of Westinghouse Electric Interna-tional, New York, N.Y., and John A. Donza, U.S. Department of CommerceBureau of International Commerce, New York, N.Y.
Officials of the Burlington Lines railway system were guests aboard theNavigation District’s inspection vessel SAM HOUSTON recently. Left to rightare Joseph V. Maxwell, assistant regional sales manager, Houston; G. F.Defiel, director, Chicago; and Norman G. Brooks, land & tax commissioner,Fort Worth.
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An attorney from the Republic of the Philippines and one from MexicoCity met recently on the SAM HOUSTON during a trip down the Ship Chan-nel. At left is Luis Capua Catublg, city councilor of Dagupan City in thePhilippines, visiting on a State Department grant. At right is Javier PerezRocha of the Mexico City office of Houston’s Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coateslaw firm, with Mrs. Victor Linck, bi-lingual secretary from the Houston office.
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Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S--The United Steamship Company Ltd.of Denmark and operators of the Scan-dinavian-American Line calling in theGulf of Mexico---joins the ranks of one-hundred-year-old steamship lines in De-cember of this year.
The company was organized Decem-ber 11, 1866, by C. F. Tietgen, a Danishtycoon of his day and titular Counsellorof State. Unification of Danish shippingservices was vital, as the country wasreeling under the impact of the War of1864 with Prussia when the duchies ofSchleswig and Holstein were lost. At thesame time, the increasing use of steamvessels was calling for additional capitaland more operational e~ciency.
The new shipping company began itsexistence with a fleet of 15 small steam-ships and a share capital of 11~ millionRigsdaller. The Company soon won agood reputation for integrity, punctual-ity and good service. Ships with thecompany’s black and red funnels, andthe blue house flag with a Maltese Crossat the masthead, became a familiar sightnot only in Scandinavian ports hut alsoin most of the other ports of Europe.
Gradually, the tteet grew; other Dan.ish shipping companies were absorbed
The M. V. NEBRASKA glides into the glassy
smooth water of the Houston Turning Basinon her maiden voyage. She is the first of a
class of eight vessels being put into theGulf of Mexico service by the Scandinavian-
American Line.
Stand" " " "mawan-~mencan
Line Ready To Observe
Centennial This Year
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The director and president of the Scandl-navian-American Line, Georg Anderson, right, andCaptain N. S. Madsen, master of theNEBRASKA, congratulate each other on be-coming "true Texans" after being presentedTexas hats by Joe S. Gumina, branch managerof Funch, Edye & Company, Inc., agents. Thevessel was on its maiden voyage at the time.
by United, the network of routes wasextended and new countries were in-cluded in the service.
Attention was focused on Great Brit-ain first. The Danish government builta new port on the West Coast of Jut-land, at Esbjcrg on the North Sea. Rail-ways were built to link Copenhagen withEsbjerg, and in 1875 the paddlesteamerRIBERHUS sailed for the big Britishmarket. This route was to be vital tothe Danish export trade, and the servicetoday is one of the most important linksbetween Denmark and foreign markets.
In 1895 D.F.D.S. opened its firstIransatlantic route with the sailing ofthe LEOPOLD It to New Orleans. Thedevelopment of the Danish cattle anddairy industry called for imports of con-siderable quantities of cottonseed cakesand corn from the Southern UnitedStates. The trade boomed and the newly-opened "free port" zone in Copenhagenbecame an important distribution pointfor all of Scandinavia.
In October, 1,898, United officially es-tablished the Scandinavian- A m c r i c a nLine and purchased four ships from theThingvalla Company that had been op-erating a North American Service.
These four vessels, plus three newpassenger ships and several of the com-pany’s other vessels were put on theScandinavian-American Line’s routes,running to New York, New Orleans andBoston, and later, to Baltimore andPhiladelphia.
As the company progressed, new ships
took the place of older ones. In fact, inthe hundred years of United’s existence,more than 400 vessels have flown theMaltese Cross on its blue field. In 1913,the company started its conversion todiesel power with the commissioning ofthe CALIFORNIA.
The company early started the prac-tice of giving its ships names related tothe countries where they called. Thosevesesels sailing to the United States arc’named after the various states whilethose going to South America are namedafter specific countries. Two of United’scombination passenger-car ferries plyingbetween Esbjerg and Harwich arenamed ENGLAND and WINSTONCHURCIIILL.
Faced with stiff, world-wide competi-tion, the company’s officials working outof the large, white home office buildingsoverlooking the docks of Copenhagen.constantly work for efficiency, speed andfirst class service. Big, new cargo shipshave been delivered or arc on order forthe company in the amdversary year.
A pioneer in the European contain-erization service, United has adopted lheroll-on roll-off system of container shiploading. Company ott[icials say that the}talk of Denmark’s agricuhural exportsare being carried on Uniled’s ships withwheeled containers being used more andmore to assure the grealest efficiency formoving such vital exports as butter.bacon, canned meats, beer and otherl)anish products.
The fleet is being stabilized at about
The modern cargo-handling gear aboard the NEBRASIseen as a pallet load of bagged cargo swings aboard a
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Somebody’s big "season’s cheer" swings overthe side of the M. V. MISSOURI at the
Port of Houston. Scotch whiskies loaded atGrangemouth, Scotland, are an importantpart of the Scandlnavlan-American Line’s
west-bound trail%.
vessels of the Scandinavian-American Line can be easilyof Houston.
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70 vessels but with a constant replace-ment or modernization program beingcarried out to keep a modern, competi-tive fleet. Ship after ship is being con-tracted for in Denmark and abroad:small freighters for coastal service, spe-cial ships for containerized traffic, cargovessels for the Mediterranean trade, andmodern car and passenger liners.
Starting with the NEBRASKA, eightnew ships representing an investment of$40 million, are being placed in theGulf trade of the Scandinavian-Ameri-can Line. These new ships have made itpossible for the Line to increase its sail-ings to three a month in a "round-about" service of Copenhagen-Grange-mouth (Scotland)-New York-Gulf Mexieo-London-Copenlmgen.
Tim service will be known as theScandinavian- American Line’s LondonExpress Service. The new routing is inaccordance with the present and prob-able future flow of the freight tralfic be-tween Europe and the United States.company officials believe.
The first of tim NEBRASKA classvessels . . . the MISSOURI . . . waslaunched at the Burmeister & Wain yardon December 30, 1965, while the lastone is scheduled for delivery in thespring of 1967. Two of the ships willcome from Burmeister & Wain, two fromHalsingborg, Sweden’s, Skibseaerft ogMaskinbyggcri, and four from Bergen,Norway’s, Mekaniskc Verksted.
The NEBRASKA class vessels have aspeed of 20 knots and will provide a
transit time of fourteen days betweenGrangemouth and Houston. They areequipped with 80,000 cu. ft. of refriger-ated and frozen cargo space, capable ofmaintaining temperatures of minus14° F.
The ships have an over-all length of~$62 feet, breadth of 61 feet and in-corporate the latest designs in equip-ment and machinery. They have fourcargo holds forward and one aft. withall machinery placed in the aft section.The ships are of 6200 tons deadweightand ,130,000 eu. ft. capacity. A 50-toncapacity derrick has been provided forheavy lift work. The main engine is aturbo-charged diescl.
Transit time direct to London fromthe final Gulf port will be eleven days,according to the Line’s schedule.
Line officials expect that the highspeeds of the vessels and the generousamount of refrigerated and freezerspace will develop increased exports ofDanish canned goods to America.
The same "reefer" space is also beingused for the steadily increasing exportof frozen meats and fruit juices from theGulf of Mexieo to Great Britain. Theyexpect to lift large quantities of suchseasonal Gulf Coast exports as orangesand celery for Great Britain, also.
One of the large inhmmd items onthe Scandinavian-Am, ri::an Line’s w’s-sels is Scotch whisky picked up inGrangemouth, Scotland.
General agents for the Scandinavian-American Line in the Unhed Stales isFunch, Edye & Company, Inc.
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UNITED STEVEDORINGDivision Ot
States Marine Lines, Inc.Cotton Exchange Bldg.
CA 7-0687 CA 7-3374
iNDEPENDENTGULF LINE
(Vinke & Co., Amsterdam, Managers)
REGULAR SERVICEto and from the
CONTINENT
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General Agent U.S.A.
Houston ̄ Galveston ̄ New YorkNew Orleans ¯ MemphisBaltimore ̄ Philadelphia
Refrigerated Space Available
SUDERMANAND YOUNG
TOWING CO., INC.
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The importance of coastwise sea transport was demonstrated recently at the Port of Houston whena 93,000-pound exhaust duct assembly for the National Aeronautical and Space Administration wasunloaded at Houston from the Sea-Land Service, Inc. ship WARRIOR after being lifted at Newark,New Jersey. Officials say it would have been extremely difficult to ship the heavy, bulky prefabri-cated unit overland without damage.
New Plants AreBeing Planned
Industrial waterside plant locationsand expansions showed a sharp up-surge in the second quarter of 1966,reaching a growth rate unmatched sincethe third quarter of 1962, Braxton B.Carr, president of The American Wa-terways Operators, Inc., reported.
Production industries constructed, ex-panded, or announced plans for 165plant facilities along or adjacent to navi-gable waterways during the secondquarter of this year. This compares with119 such facilities built or announcedin the first quarter of 1966. The largestprevious quarterly construction figurecame in the third quarter of 1962 when189 plant facilities were built or an-nounced.
The water carrier spokesman saidthat 88 of the 165 production industriesreported investment expenditures total-ing $1.88 billion along the nation’s25,380 miles of commercially navigablewaterways.
The AWO president said the secondquarter figures indicate sustained inter-est on the part of management to takeadvantage of low-cost barge transporta-tion (aw~raging three mills per ton mile)
-- for handling bulk-loading commodities.
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Cranes work on both sides of the M. V. PUGLIOLA unloading a totalaf 10,800 tons of steel at Houston. The 2,500 tons of steel dischargeddirectly overside to barges was transshipped via the Intracaastal Waterwayand the Mississippi to New Orleans and St. Louis. The charterers of thePUGLIOLA stated that non*availabillty of suitable berth and cranes at
New Orleans resulted in the total load being discharged in Houston fardistribution. At left is the Port’s 50-ton electric gantry while in the centercan be seen the booms of three of the Port’s 25-ton locomotive cranes andat right the Port Houston Shipyards’ 30-ton steam whlrley type barge crane.
We know all theins and outs of
importing-exporting!Want to know the tariff onanhydrous ammonia aLAthens? Schedule of sailingsfor Sierra Leone? Customsregulations at Caracas?Whatever your question re-garding foreign commerce,your nearest MoPac agenthas the answers.
That’s because we serve 12major Gulf ports plus theBrownsville, Laredo and
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Next time you ship in orout of the country, senti itMoPac and let us handlethe details. We know foreignshipping, coming and going.
D R. A. GRIESMANAssistant Traffic Mgr.406 Union StationHouston, Texas 77002
AUGUST, 1966 2t
Convention SetThe annual conw:ntion of the Associ-
ated Traffic Clubs is scheduled Septem-ber 11-13 at the Jung Hotel in NewOrleans.
The keynote address at the conven-tion will be given by Undersecretary ofCommerce for Transportation AlanBoyd, who will describe the proposedcabinet position of the l)epartment ofTransportation.
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A sporty Mercedes-Benz coupe heads for a Port of Houston wharf from the Wallenius Lines’ S.S.MARTHA. One of 34 prestige German manufactured automobiles consigned to the Daimler-BenzCorporation of North America, the car and its sisters were imported through the Port of Houston fordelivery to dealers in the southwest region of the United States. Gulf Matorships, Inc. were agentsfor the ship.
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