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PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

PORT OFHOUSTON

Volume 5

Official PublicationOf the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

December, 1963 No.. 12

Directory Of OfficialsFOR THE

Port of Houston ContentsPORT COMMISSIONERSHOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanW. N. BLANTON, Vice ChairmanW. M. HATTENWILLIAM W. SHERRILLR. H. PRUETT

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTJ. P. TURNER, General ManagerVERNON BAILEY, Assistant General ManagerJ. L. LOCKETT, JR., CounselSAMUEL B. BRUCE, AuditorTRAVIS SMITH, Engineer and Planning ManagerRICHARD LEACH, Chie] EngineerROBERT W. ROBINSON, Accounts ManagerKENNETH W. STEPHENS, Personnel ManagerT. E. WHATLEY, Administrative AssistantVINCENT D. WILLIAMS, Administrative

Assistant

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENTLLOYD GREGORY, Director of InformationTED SUMERLIN, Editor of MagazineVAUGHN M. BRYANT, Director o~

International Relations

SALES DEPARTMENTGEORGE W. ALTVATER, General Sales ManagerEDWARD P. MOORE, District Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, Assistant

25 Broadway, New York, N.Y.HUME A. HENDERSON, District Sales Manager

Board of Trade Building, Chicago, Ill..JOHN R. WEILER, District Sales Manager

1519 Capitol, Houston

OPERATIONS DEPARTMENTC. E. BULLOCK, Operations ManagerT. H. SHEaWOOD, Manager of Grain ElevatorWALLACE J. STAGNER, Manager-Storage

WarehousesCARL L. SHUPTRINE, Chief Security Of JicerD. P. WALSrI, Maintenance Superintcndent

WORLD TRADE CENTEREDWARD J. FAY, Director

EXECUTIVE OFFICES1519 Capitol Avenue at Crawford Street

Telephone CApitol 5-0671P. O. Box 2562, Houston 1, Texas

Port of Houston Entertains At Foreign Trade Conference ................ 8

Gulf Ports Praised For Team Work ........................... 13

Interesting News and Views ....................................... 14

The Houston Port Bureau Reports ......................... 16

Visitors See The Port of Houston ......................... 17

Land And Sea Transportation Is Now A Success ....................... 18

Houston Steamship Agents ....................................... 30

Port of Houston Shipping Directory ................................ 31

Sailing Schedule of General Cargo Ships ............................ 32

THE COVER

Tied up at one of the Port of Houston’s open wharves is the Sea-Land’s BIEN-VILLE. To learn how this company was developed see page 18.

The PORT OF HOUSTON Magazine is pub-lished monthly and distributed free to mari-time, industrial and transportation interests inthe United States and foreign countries. Itspurpose is to inform shippers and others inter-ested in the Port of Houston of its develop-ment, facilities, plans and accomplishments.

This publication is not copyrighted and per-

mission is given for the reproduction or useof any material, provided credit is given tothe Port of Houston.

Additional information or extra copies ofthis magazine may be obtained by writingThe Port of Houston Magazine, 3005 l.ouisi-ana Street, Houston 6, Texas.

DECEMBER, 1963 7

James J. Drew, well known in New York shipping circles:Michael Randazzo, vice president of Republic Interocean Cor-poration and William P. Higgins of William P. Higgins, Inc.,all of New York.

Talking things over around the table are O. V. Portocarrero,vice president of United States Navigation Co.; Albert E. Lns-rig, sales vice president of Harborside Terminal Co. and R. C.Waehner of Lever Brothers Co., all of New York.

Port of Houston EntertainsAt Foreign lrade Co:nference

Commissioners and officials of tile Harris Comity HoustonShip Channel Navigation District again played hosts to hun-dreds of foreign traders and friends of the Port of Houstonthis year at the Fiftieth Annual National Foreign Trade Con-ference in New York November 18-20.

Commissioners W. M. Hattcn and R. H. Pruett were onhand along with General Manager J. P. Turner to greet theguests at three evening receptions in addition to two luncheonson tile 19th and 20th. General Sales Manager George W. All-valet together with New York District Sales Manager EdwardP. Moore and Assistant Manager Frank Ward were in chargeof arrangements.

Also present from tbe Navigation District were Edward J.Fay, director of the Houston World Trade Center, andVaughn M. Bryant. director of international relations.Houston Port Bureau General Manager Greg B. Perry alsoattended. Numerous Houston shipping, banking and foreigntrade executives, additionally, were on hand to help greetvisitors to the Port of Houston receptions.

New Yorkers Charles G. O’Rourke of Thomas J. Kane & Co.;l)ouglas H. Berry of E. R. Squibb & Sons and John H. Bunning~f Socony Mobil Corp. in the Port of Houston hospitality room.

Houston port commissioner William M. Hatten with Mr.and Mrs. Paul Amundsen of Washington, D.C. Mr. Amundsenis executive director of the American Association of Port Au-thorities.

Henry J. Douvry of Hellenic Lines in New York; Edward J.Fay, director of Houston’s World Trade Center; Robert L. Loc-head of American Export and Ishrantsen Lines in New Yorkand George E. Hoffman of the New York office of the ChileanLine.

Houston’s A. M. Alvarez of Oivind Lorentzen Inc. (NopaiLine) with A. Kenyan and A. M. Andrews, Jr., traffic managerand president, respectively, of Airco Company International ofNew York, and William Bohhneyer of Mitsui Line.

Basil R. Galgano of Sinclair International Oil in New York;George C. Whitney, vice president of Transoceanic ShippingCompany and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Stass, president and vicepresident, respectively, of the J. S. Stass Co., foreign freightforwarders.

F. E. McLendon, manager of Stone Forwarding Co. of Hous-ton chats in the Port’s hospitality room with Stauffer ChemicalCompany executives C. L. Macumber, assistant sales managerof the international division, and J. R. Flood, both of NewYork.

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Houston Port Commissioner R. H. Pruett, right, and MerleCroekard of Houston’s Bank of the Southwest, next to him,with Mr. and Mrs. William H. Trauth of Washington. Mr.Trauth is a vice president of the Alcoa Steamship Company.

B. A’ Hoeger, traffic manager of Volkswagen of America inEnglewood Cliffs, N. J., with American Can Company’s HenryO. Schneider and Morris S. Abe of Diamond Alkali Company’sinternational division ill New York.

Clarence Dupre of the Texas National Bank of Houstonwith Roy Ruckert, district manager in New York and Alvin J.Cowan, vice president in Houston of Inland Forwarding, Inc.,of Houston.

Basil J. Verlangieri and Harvey L. Titus, vice president andpresident, respectively of Carbon Black Export, Inc., of NewYork, with the Port of Houston’s assis|ant district sales man-ager in New York, Frank Ward.

Houston’s Byron Wilson of J. R. Michels Co., freight for-warders, with Crossocean Shipping Co. president, H. W. Meyer,and personnel assistant Richard T. McMahon of tire R.E.A.Express, both of New York.

Robert A. Morris of Socony Mobil Oil Cmnpany with Nich-olas J. Bendish, Stahlunion Corporation; Paul Amundsen,Washington, executive director of the American Associationof Port Authorities and Walter ,|. Oehler, also of lbe Stahl-Union Corporation in New York.

Standing by the screen on which photos of the Port ofHouston’s facilities were shown are James H. Branard, Jr., vicepresident of the Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co., (Long ReachDocks) in Houston with Howard J. Henke of Union CarbideInternational; J. D. Sullivan of H. J. Baker & Bro., and G. R.Vaning of Corn Products Co., all of New York.

Auguste Bohler of Amerlux Steel Products Corp.; Jobn A.Brennig, Central National Commercial Company: NicholasSchilling, vice president of Amerlux Steel and R. J. LaBauof Socony Mobil Oil Company, all of New York.

William J. Hueston of International Ore & Fertilizer Corp.;C. L. Macumber, Stauffer Chemical Co." Anthony T. DeLucaof E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., and Raymond ~:. Hardy,of Union Carbide International Co., all of New York.

J. Schneider and C. H. Guerin, both of Asiatic PetroleumCorporation in New York with H. H. Graebner of J. M. HuberCorporation and Manuel Martinez of H. A. Astlett & Co., alsoof New York.

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J. D. Kerr, assistant vice president of Bethlehem Steel’smarine division looks at the Port of Houston’s screen whilefacing the camera are Robert Fairlie, Jr., Esso International,Inc., and Adam Hunter and Frank A. Dougherty, export trafficmanager and assistant~ respectively, of American Smelting andRelining Company, all of New York.

Edward H. Hams of Texas Transport & Terminal Co., NewYork; Edwin Eikel, president, Intracoastal Towing and Trans-portation Corp. of Houston; Albert E. Waters, Texas Transport& Terminal, New York: Jack E. Hunger, president of WorldShipping, New York, and Joachim R. Kirsten, executive vicepresident of Nautilus Shipping and Trading Company, NewYork.

Eugene Sparaco, assistant tragic manager, Cerro Sales Corp.,New York; A. O. Evans, Jr., assistant tragic manager, DowChemical International, Freeport, Texas; Thomas Kennedy andAnthony V. Mareski, both of Esso International of New York.

Mr. and Mrs. AI Simon of the A. & R. Simon Import-ExportCompany, center, flanked by Milton Bargar, left, SpencerChemical Co. of Kansas City, and James V. Miner, MercuryNews Fihns, New York.

R. F. Hilpert and J. L. Wade, assistant manager and manager,respectively, of Overseas Marine Services, shown with JosephF. Ravener of the Connel Rice & Sugar Co., all of New York.

W. F. Ellebrecht, Continental-Emsco Co., New York ; HoustonPort Commissioner R. H. Pruett; K. M. Seaman, and L. W.Walden, both of International Milling Co., Minneapolis, Minn.

Henry Tonyes and Steve Ketterer, newly-appointed assistants,and International Tragic Manager R. F. Seidel, all of SoconyMobil Oil Company in New York with Burke Baker, Jr.,president of the Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Co. (Lung Reachl)ocks), in Houston.

E. H. McConnell, New York customs broker and freightforwarder, with Carl G. Moberg, tragic manager WestinghouseElectric International Co. and Howard Seymour, president ofMohegan International Corp., all of New York.

George W. Ahvater. general sales manager of the Port ofHouston. points to a scene of the Port Houston on the giantscreen as he explains tbe Port’s building program to F. E.Marik, general tragic manager of American Metal Climax, Inc.,of New York.

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William J. Squicciarini, traffic manager: Richard C. Colton,vice president New York, and Walter J. Amoss, Jr., vice presi-dent tragic, all of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., with (’harlesF. Schlenner, manager, International General Electric Com-pany, New York.

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Four executives of States Marine-Isthmian Agency withJames H. Branard, Jr., second from left, vice president of GulfAtlantic Warehouse Co. (Long Reach Docks), Iloustou, are,from left, W. B. Register; A. J. Theis, president of StatesMarine-lsthmian; J. E. Davies, Houston, vice president of theagency, and David Fleming of the New York office.

Elwood R. (Andy) Anderson and R. J. Caragher, Imth of theEthyl Corporation in New York, with T. R. Williams, New Yorkregional export sales manager of Reed Roller Bit Co., ofHouston, and Alan I. Newhouse, president of Behring-SouthPorts Shipping Co. of Houston and president of the HmistonWorld Trade Association.

Jan Buijs, Holland American Line; Ruby Cohen, B.N.S.International Sales, Henry Borsch, Freedman & Slater: C.Thomas Tralicante, Stockard Shipping Co., and Mrs. Borsch,all of New York.

R. E. Bule, Mid-Continent Supply Co.; G. M. Middleton,traffic manager of American International Oil Co., and GeorgeR. Plassmann, Oasis Oil Co. of Libya, all of New York.

J. P. Turner, right, general manager of the Port of Houston.with Mrs. Frank Ward, wife of the Port’s assistant district salesmanager in New York, and Sal Contino of the Kenneco CopperCompany, New York

B. W. White, vice president, Hansen and Tideman, Inc.,Houston: Aaron Gross, general traffic manager of CentralNational Corporation, New York, and Mrs. Gross, and John V.Templet, New York, sales manager for Hansen & Tidemann.

Oswald Freundlich, center, of the Government of IsraelSupply Mission, flanked by R. F. Mendel, left, vice presidentof Stone Forwarding Co., in Corpus Christi, Texas, and F. E.McLendon, manager of Stone Forwarding in Houston.

Richard A. Davis, International Paper Company; Hector L.Vazquez, vice president, Champion Paper Corp.; H,, V.Demarest, Potash Export Ass~rciation. and E. R. Mooney, Inter-national Paper Co, all of New York.

D. E. Watson, traffic manager of Kennecott Copper Corp.;Robert Butterworth, Asiatic Petroleum Co.; Aaron Gross,general traffic manager, Central National Corporation, andEdward W. lsakson, export traffic manager, National Distillersand Chemical Corp., all of New York.

DECEMBER, 1963

Frank P. McGlinchey, California Texas Oil Corp., New York:Greg B. Perry, general manager, Houston Port Bureau, Hous-ton; D. J. Dore, California Texas Oil: Harold J. Smith, AsiaticPetroleum Corp., New York, and James M. Canosa, commercialmanager international sales of Babcock & Wilcox, New York.

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Edward P. Mnore, New York district sales manager of thePort of Houston: S. J. Contino, export traffic manager, Kenne-cott Copper Corp.: John R. Ural, Stauffer Chemical Company,hoth of New York, and William M. Hatten, Commissioner oftile Port of Houston.

George W. Ahvater, general sales manager of the Port ofHouston, flanked by A. Maruhbio, left, export traffic manager,New York, and F. J. Reighley, manager-interplant, FirestoneTire and Rubber Co., Akron.

George R. Nelson, Bunge Corp.; Elmer H. Mann, Interna-tional Minerals & Metals Corp.; Roderic R. Appelman, trafficmanager, Esso International Inc., and Donald Beinhaekcr,International Minerals & Metals Corp.

Ray V. Harron, director of traffic of General Foods Corp.:Louis C. Stein, president of Norton & Ellis of New York, andFred W. Moore, international division of Tennessee EastmanCo., Kingsport, Tenn.

Paul Brandman, traffic manager, Albumina Supply Co.;George J. Eline, general traffic manager, Luria Brothers & Co.,Ernest E. Hahn, Associated Metals & Mineral Corp. and HenryOhneda, ContinentaI-Emsco Corp., all of New York.

J. W. Buckley of Buckley & Co., foreign freight forwarders;Rita Ojeda of Connell Bros., Ltd., and Galen L. Braithwaite,assistant export manager of George E. Failing Co., all of NewYork.

Four officials of the Cunard Steam-Ship Company, Ltd., NewYork offices attended the Port of Houston reception. Frmn leftto right Walter T. Moffatt, Elmer W. Ellsworth, Robert Julinand Charles J. Sperl.

Charles Hornbostel and Peter Arabia of Continental GrainCompany, and Gerald C. Ekedal of the New York Journal ofCommerce, all of New York.

Edward Charles Saenz, Sterling Products, International; Maxtloffman, export manager of Waukesha Motor Co., Waukesha,Wis., and Stanley E. Hollis, Foreign Credit Insurance Associa-tion, New York.

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James Sheridan of Tupman Thurlow Co., and Mrs. Sheridan,with R. J. Rivera, American Smelting and Refining Companyand Lou Taylor, Monaco Chemical Co., all of New York.

PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

No. 46 In a Series Men Who Make The Port of Houston Hum

M~,t £. C. Leutsch, Jr.I]ulf Purls PraisedFur Team Wurh

BY LLOYD GREGORYInformation Director

AISE for the traffic committee of the Gulf Ports Associa-tion comes from E. C. Leutseh, Jr., president of H. L. Zieglcr,Inc., ocean freight brokers and forwarding agents.

Mr. Leutsch, brown eyes sparkling and his gray crew-cut hair bristling, leaned back in his chair in the HoustonCotton Exchange Building and said:

’Tve been around Gulf ports for more than 40 years, andthere’s closer cooperation than ever before. We must havethat team-work if we are to survive, for we must keep ourrates competitive, and ports in other areas always are shoot-ing at the Gulf ports."

H. L. Ziegler founded the firm which bears his name in1.896 in Galveston, leaving the Santa Fe railway traffic de-partlnent. "Mr. Ziegler was a colorful gentleman who weighedaround 300 pounds," Leutsch recalled.

H. L. Ziegler; Inc. now has offices in Houston, Galw~ston,Dallas. Frceport, and Corpus Christi. Its officers are: Presi-dent E. C. Leutsch, Jr.; L. A. Weber, vice president; GeorgeC. Rube, secretary; S. G. Thompson, treasurer.

Mr. Leutsch was born ill Galveston Dec. 12, 1903; waseducated there in public schools and Draughon’s BusinessCollege. A teen-ager, he went to work as a runner in Galves-ton for J. H. W. Steele, freight forwarders. "There were fewautomobiles in those days, and I developed my legs ridingmy bike on the docks and around the compresses," Mr.Leutsch smilingly recalled.

In August, 1922, Mr. Leutsch went to work in Galvestonas a clerk for Ziegler, and never has left that firm. He cameto Houston 1929 as manager of the office here, and wasnamed the firm’s president in 1947.

H. L. Ziegler, Inc. deals only in exports, handling mainlycotton, grain, oil well supplies, and chemicals.

Mr. Leutseh lauded the Harris County Houston ShipChannel Navigation District "for its great expansion programof recent years.

He noted with approval the growing commerce betweenGulf ports and Latin America and Africa.

Mr. Leutseh is a member of the Houston Traffic Club,National Defense Transportation association, Houston Cham-ber of Commerce, a director of the Houston Cotton Ex-change, a director of the Houston Cotton Exchange Benevo-lent Club and a member of the Houston Club.

The Port of Houston chapter of the Propeller Club of theU.S. was chartered May 22, 1940. Mr. Leutsch was one ofthe charter members recently honored at a dinner. Others:Harry W. Anderson, Sr., J. R. Bencal, B. M. Bloomfield,Judge John R. Brown, John J. Dee.

Also Clarence Eastham, Robert Eikel, G. Harris Emig,R. A. Fenzl, R. J. Fenzl, J. S. Gissel, G. R. Hetherington,Harrison J. Luhn, Capt. C. T. MeMains, J. Newton Rayzor,T. G. Schirmeyer.

Also Robert S. Smith, Carl G. Stearns, Sr., T. C. Stroter,Sr., T. P. Studdert, A. J. Suberbille, and Capt. R. J. Wales.

Mr. and Mrs. Leutseh live at I527 Elliott. They have twochildren, Mrs. Joan Watson; and a son, Edward, a student atTexas Teeh. Mr. Leutsch is an elder in Trinity Presbyterianchurch. E. C. LEUTSCH, JR.

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Inland barge traffic played a significant role in tile con-struction of Houston’s new domed stadium which will bethe first in the world to feature air-conditioned, weather-controlled playing conditions for major league football andbaseball with seating capacity of upwards of 50,000. Thefinal steel truss section went into the dome last month amidproper civic ceremonies. A substantial part of the 9,000tons of steel involved in the stadium’s framework erected byU. S. Steel’s American Bridge Division came from U. S. Steelmills at Birmingham and Chicago and was barged through tileinland rivers and waterways network to tile Port of Houston.

INTERESTING NEWS AND VIEWS

A seventeen thousand pound Londoner returned home toWestminister, Trafalgar Square, Fleet Street and St. Paul’s

aboard tile Brocklebank Line’s M. V. MAHOUT, sailing fromHouston on her maiden voyage in late October. Tile Lon-

doner, a bright red double-decker bus capable of seating72 passengers, was going back to its regular run in the heart

of the English capital after six weeks in New Orleans andMemphis where it was used to publicize British Festival

weeks at stores in the two cities. The MAHOUT, second of itsclass to be put into service by Brocklebank, bas an overall

length of 480 feet and total bale space of 570,020 cubic feet.The MAHOUT and her sister ship, the MARKHOR,

can be operated as open or closed shelter deck vessels.Fnnrh, Edye & Co., Inc., are Houston agents for the vessel. Onthe right are London bus drivers Ted Brakefield, Cohn Curtis,and Ron Eastwood waiting with their double-decker on the

Long Reach Docks, Port of Houston, to load the vehicle forreturn to England. Above, Houston Junior Chamber of Com-

merce representative Dale Thompson, left, hands a plaquehonoring the maiden voyage of tile Brocklebank Line’s M. V.MAHOUT to her captain, J. Newman, center. Assistant Man-ager Joe S. Gumina of the Houston office of Funch, Edye &

Co., Inc’., Brorklebank’s agent is on the right.

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Port AnniversaryIs Observed

The 49th anniversary of the openingof the Port of Houston to world tradewas commemorated by the HoustonWorld Trade Association with a ban-quet at the World Trade Club honor-ing tile Association’s past [)residents onNovember 11.

It was on November 10, 1914. thatMiss Sue Campbell, daughter of MayorBen Campbell of Houston, tossed awreath of flowers into tile waters of theTurning Basin dedicating the Port ofHouston after President Woodrow ~:il-son, from Washington, had pressed atelegraphic button to fire a cannon asnotice that the Port was officially open.

The event cuhninated more thanseven years of dredging Buffalo Bayouand Galveston Bay to provide the 50-mile long deep-sea channel to the Gulfof Mexico which was to make Houstonone of the nation’s and the world’smajor ports.

William E. Dazey, Association boardmember, presided at the banquet atwhich W. St. John Garwood. formerJustice of the Supreme Court of Texas

Past presidents of the Houston World Trade Association present at the commemo-ration dinner gather beneath the Texas Under Six Flags emblem in the World TradeClub dining room. Seated, from left to right are: Ben L. Golub, W. St. John Garwood,Edward J. Fay, E. T. Jenn, and Tom J. Brown. Standing, left to right: Robert E. L.Debner, Ashley W. Lott, William L. Brewster, Andre A. Crispin, and Sydnor Oden.

and former association president, was Port Commissioner W. N. Blanton andprincilmt speaker. Also speaking were association Prcsi&,nt Alan I. Newhousc.

AROUND THE PORT OF HOUSTONMembers of the Southeast Texas

Regional Export Expansion Committeemet with Secretary of Commerce LutherH. Hodges recently when the Secretarywas in Houston to address the NationalSales Association Convention. Memberscame from as far away as the Rio GrandeValley to confer with Secretary Hodgesat an informal gathering held in thenew Federal Building here. Shown seatedwith the Secretary are George W. Ebanks,right, vice president of the NationalBank of Commerce of Houston andchairman, for the second year, of theregional R.E.E.C. and George L. Mal-herbe, manager of the regional tield of.rice of the Department of Connnerce.

Danish Consul General in New York,Hon. Viggo Jensen, center, who holds the

rank of Ambassador in his country’sforeign service, visited the Port of

Houston and World Trade Building lastmonth while in Houston to discuss

Danish-U. S. trade. He is shown herewith Danish Consul in Houston Bernhard

Daugbjerg, left, and Henning Krist-Jansen, commercial attache of the Con-

sulate General in New York, viewing thespace capsule on exhibit in the Manned

Spacecraft Center exhibit in the WorldTrade Building.

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COILED STEEL WIRE AND RODS will move through Port ofHouston to North Texas destinations at lower freight costsin rail service, under a Port Bureau rate adjustment now ap-proved by our carriers. Much of the import steel dischargedat Houston (over 565,000 tons last year) consists of wire for

further manufacture. The new rate on coiled wire and rodswill be 301/~¢ cwt. on 120,000-lb. carloads and is designed toimprove the cost and method of placing this raw material tothe points of manufacture.

BLOCKING-BRACING CHARGES on import traffic destined topoints in Texas and the Southwest have now been proposed byrailroads serving the Texas and Louisiana ports. Importtraffic to the Midwest territory was accorded the new chargeson October 10, under a theory of rate equalization with NorthAtlantic ports on traffic to the Midcontinent area. Inasmuchas the new proposal would result in increased costs payableby shippers on import traffic required to be blocked, bracedor otherwise secured in or on cars moving from the ports toall points in the Southwest, we have requested that the subjectbe assigned for joint public hearing before both the South-western and the Texas-Louisiana Freight Bureau. The propo-sition is docketed as SWL Application 179-7 and T-LFB Apn.179-1. Area shippers are requested to contact the Port Bureaufor any additional information needed on this matter; to

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communicate their views to the railroads, and to plan partici-pation in public hearing or hearings when such may be as-signed.

EQUALIZATION OF DOMESTIC RATES as between Gulf portson shipments to interior points has been suggested by a rail-road and will be opposed by the Port Bureau. Proposals un-der Texas-Louisiana Freight Bureau No. 24-76-L and No.24-75-T would accord Louisiana ports the same rail rateas from Houston on steel to Shreveport and Dallas-Ft. Worthon ex-barge traffic. While rate equalization as between portsis a normal practice on import traffic as according com-petitive opportunity to ports and carriers, the suggestedequalization of domestic rates would confer economic ad-vantage, eliminate geographic considerations and destroycompetitive opportunity for industry, ports and carriers.

PETITIONS FOR RECONSIDERATION have been filed againstan I.C.C. decision favorable to the Gulf ports in a proceed-ing (Docket 33830) concerning rate relationships as be-tween Gulf and Great Lakes ports on rail traffic with thePlains states. The Commission decision had denied requestedrates from South Dakota to Lakes ports constructed mile-for-mile to the allegedly preferential Gulf rates on export traffic.

SPLIT DELIVERY CHARGES on carload export freight will

again be considered by the Gulf-serving railroads at theirDecember 3 meeting of Southern Ports Foreign Freight Com-mittee lines. It is our belief that the railroads now appreciatethe real need of a free second delivery, and that action willbe accorded in December to remove this source of shipperpenalty.

LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF LEGISLATION affecting national trans-

portation law at this session of Congress was indicated inmid-November, as a revised draft of proposed legislation wasmade public by the House commerce committee. Principalchanges to existing law are proposed in extension of rateexemption for agricultural commodities to all modes of trans-portation; reducing the barge lines’ "three commodity" drybulk commodity exemption to a "one commodity" exemp-tion; provide reparations on truck and freight forwardershipments where charges paid are determined to have beenunreasonable; repeal of the "commodities clause" whichprohibits railroads from transporting their own commoditiesexcept articles for their own use, and the setting up of rail-air-water joint regulatory authority for through service andrates by differing modes of transportation.

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Visitors See ThePort of Houston

The civilian personnel officer and the chief of the budgetsection of the Tooele, Utah, Army Ordnance Depot, Mr. andMrs. James Bond, were guests aboard the Navigation District’s _~ _ - ~-- ..... -- --inspection vessel SAM HOUSTON, recently. Bond was civilianpersonnel officer at the San Jacinto Ordnance Depot on the ABOARD THE SA~[ HOUSIONHouston Ship Channel prior to tile Depot’s closing.

A Swedish economist and a Dutch port director met by theLone Star flag on the bow of the SAM HOUSTON recentlyas they made a trip down the Houston Ship Channel whi]eon separate tours of the country. Frans eosthuma, right, man-aging director of the Port of Rotterdam, bigges! on the conti-nent and one of the largest in the world, was in Houston tostudy the Port’s industrial complex which in many ways resem-bles the great Europort development well underway at Rotter-danh While here he conferred with General Manager J. P.Turner and other port officials. Wilhelm Panes, director oftile Department of International Affairs of the Federation ofSwedish Industries is visiting nearly a score of U.S. businessrenters and while in Houston conferred with exporters andimporters interested in tile Swedish market and addressed theHouston World Trade Association.

The board of directors and officers of the Union EquityCompany of Enid, Oklahoma, and parent organization of tileEquity Export Company, which is building a new export grainelevator and deep water terminal on the Houston Ship Channel,were guests of Paul Wilson, center, kneeling, Houslon repre-sentative of Producers Export for a trip down the HoustonShip Channel aboard tile Navigation District’s inspection vesselSAM HOUSTON recently. Producers Export is sales agent forUnion Equity, a wheat growers association.

.... i i~,~~,~, L!A delegation of Costa Rican port and railroad officials

visited the Port of Houston last month to study port facilitiesand new construction in connection with improvements contem-plated for that country’s principal port of Punta Arenas on thePacific Coast. Shown with Costa Rican Consul General JorgeArrea aboard the SAM HOUSTON (left), are Rodrigo Arrea,Consul Arrea’s brother and chief engineer for Costa Ricanports and railroads; Carlos Solis of the Ministry of Railroads,which administers the port, and Eriberto Pereira, also of therailroads ministry.

German trade expert and attorney Dr. George Kettler, left,deputy manager of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, touredthe Port of Houston and its dependencies as part of a visit toHouston while on a tour of the country under the ForeignLeader Exchange Program of the U.S. Department of State. Heis shown here with his interpreter from the State Department,Herbert Stanton. Dr. Kettler is head of the industry section ofthe Bremen Chamber and former head of its legal department,a member of the Bremen Bar Association and business man-ager of the German Honey Association.

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Service, Experimented Until

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Sea Transportation IsTHE TRANSITION between land and seatransportation has always posed a bottle-neck in the movement of goods acrossthe world. Many seafaring organizationshave tried to solve the problem but itremained for the Port of Houston to bethe scene of one of the first successfulmergings of land and sea transportation.

In 1955. the Sea-Land Service, Inc.,then known as the Pan.Atlantic Steam-ship Corporation, loaded a modified T-2tanker from City Dock 16 with 60truck-trailer bodies and sailed for Neu:York.

Malcohn McLean entered the seatransportation business as head of Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corporation afterselling his interests in the McLeanTrucking Company in January, 1955.Pan-Atlantic, then a wholly-owned sub-sidiary of the Waterman Steamship Cor-poration had been established in 1933

to provide U. S. coastal service whileWaterman provided foreign service.

McLean immediately started workingon a system of merging truck and shiptransportation.

His first concept was for a "roll-on.roll-off" method but the first tanker-container ships to sail from l~toustonused a pair of locomotive cranes, whichwere soon replaced by a buge gantrycrane to lift the trailer bodies from thewheeled chassis at dock-side and setthem onto a spar deck built above theregular tanker deck. The modified T-2swould take on a cargo of oil beforeloading the dry cargo containers.

By the end of the year Pan-Atlantichad four tanker-trailerships in servicebetween Houston and the East Coast.

The idea of being able to load, Dockand seal their products in trailer-vansize shipping containers in their own

plant or uarehouse appealed to ship-pers and manufacturers in the Houstonand New York areas and Pan-Atlanticincreased its services with new ships.

The new ships were built on six C-2cargo hulls with special modeling ofthe sides of the hulls to provide squaredholds in the forward and aft sectionsof the vessel. Each ship could thencarry 226 trailers eight feet, six incheshigh by eight feet wide by thirty-fivefeet long above and below deck, lockedin vertical racks.

Whereas the trailer-containers hadbeen lifted on the spar decks of thetankers by’ shore cranes, the new con-tainer ships were equipped with lu.oshipboard traveling gantry cranes. Thismodification increased the versatility ofthe ships so that containerized servicecould be extended to any port of call.

The S. S. GATEWAY CITY was the

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Shipboard traveling gantry crane,designed by Sea-Land, is positionedto hoist trailer aboard ship from truckchassis. Each trailership is fitted withtwo cranes. Serving as sealed shippingcontainers, specially constructedtrailers are stacked in elevator-shaft-llke holds and above deck. At Port ofdestination, containers are again placedon truck chassis. Loading and unloadingof Sea-Land trailers hips is handledsimuhaneously--in almost one-sixth oftime required for conventional cargoships.

Now A Successfirs! of the ne~ sclf-contairlcd containerships to sail. callin~ at the Port ofHouston in October, 1957. At the sametime, Pan-Atlantic inaugurated serviceto Puerto Rico.

By 1959, the company, with morethan 4,000 containers, was operatingone of the largest fleets of highwayequipment in the transportation indus-try in combination with its six shipsin the sea-land service. Now the com-pany has more than doubled that figurewith 8,328 vans. including 648 refrig-erated trailers.

Texas Division operations managerRay F. Huette of Sea-Land explains theoperational procedure, and how thecompany believes its methods help theshipper as follows:

A Sea-Land truck takes on freight atthe shipper’s loading platform. Thetrailer is sealed and delivered to a Sea-

Land terminal. At dockside, the con-tainer is lifted from the trailer chassisby a high speed shipboard crane andstacked securely as a giant shippingcrate in an elevator-shaft-like hold.

Loading and unloading is handledsimultaneously, substantially decreasingturn-aronnd time for a vessel in port.A Sea-Land trailer ship can be loadedand unloaded in ahnost one-sixth of thetime required for a conventional cargoship, he says. At the port of destinationthe container is again placed on a chas-sis and trucked to its final destination.

Joseph S. Balog, general manager ofthe Texas Division, says Sea-Land pro-vides advantages to shippers in lowercosts, closely maintained schedules, con-tinuous control over the location ofevery shipment en route, virtual elim-ination of pilferage and damage be-cause cargo travels in sealed containers.

and elimination of extra crating andmarking.

Trailer-load cargo always remains inthe same Sea-Land trailer. Less-than-trailer-load freight is consolidated intotrailers at Sea-Land terminals in stand-ard over-the-road fashion. Beyond portareas, concurring motor carriers utilizeSea-Land trailers and their own motorpower for deliveries.

With the revival in May 1961, ofthe dormant intercoastal service betweenNew York, Los Angeles, and San Fran-cisco, Sea-Land offers service on alldomestic deepwater routes of the UnitedStates except on the Hawaii route.Tonnage to and from Mexico is handledvia the Port of Houston.

The 15 knot C-2 trailerships make therun from the bar at the Houston ShipChannel to Elizabeth, New Jersey, infour days, eighteen hours, normallyleaving Houston every Thursday.

Northbound from Houston, Sea-Landmoves plastics, rubber, rice and somefrozen products. Sea-Land’s inboundcargo for Houston is mostly of a manu-factured nature. This includes suchthings as brass, bronze and copper arti-cles. books, chemicals, drugs, medicinesand toilet preparations, and candy. Sea-Land moves a considerable number ofdiversified products into the Houstonarea for the NASA’s Manned Space-craft Center.

Looking forward to increased service,Sea-Land has added four jumbo trailer-ships, each with a capacity of 476containers, for intercoastal and PuertoRiean service. In addition, the com-pany completed and put into servicetwo ne~ C-4 combination breakbulkand trailership vessels, a new, uupow-ered trailer carrier for use on the westcoast, a converted T-2 tanker trailer-ship, arid a car carrier, the S. S. DE-TROIT.

The C-4 combination ships handle166 containers and 4,000 Ions of break-bulk cargo; the T-2 trailership carries196 containers; and the trailer carrierhandles 67 containers. The special car

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carrier, used bet~ecn Elizabeth andPuerto Rico, has space for 530 cars.

The trailer carrier COLU;IIBL4 in-corporates a return to the original "roll-on, roll-off" concept of loading. It isused as a shuttle carrier between Port-land. Oregon and Oakland, ~dlere itmeets the jumbo container ships fromNe~ York. Equipped with twin sternramps, it is unloaded and loaded in oneday.

First headquarters for Pan-AtlanticI Sea-Land~ were in Mobile. Mabama.In 1958, the company’s headquarters~ere mined to Port Nm~ark. Ne~ Jer-sey. The most recent move. made inA[lgust. 1963. uas to a new $22 milliontrailership terminal and headquarterscoxering 92 acres at the Elizabeth: NewJersey, Port Aulhoritv Piers.

The name change from Pan-AtlanticSteamship Corporation to Sea-LandService, hie. says Huettv was made illApril 1960 to "i)eiter describe the serv-ices offered and capitalize on the grm~-ing acceptance of Ihe trailership con-cept."

The company is a who]ly-o’~ned sub-sidiary of McLean Industries. Inc., Mo-bile, Alabama.

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S. S. EIJZABETHPORT, Sea-Land jumbo trailershlp, passes Panama Canal locksin intercoastal route between New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco. Vesselinaugurated intercoastal trailership service in September, 1962. Sisterships S.S. LOSANGELES and S.S. SAN FRANCISCO now also serve same route with sailings sched-uled every 14 days.

The first Pan-Atlantic sea-land ship todock at the Port of Houston unloaded60 truck trailer bodies by locomotivecrane while skeptics looked on and shooktheir heads. As the basic idea proveditself, the company improved upon thesystem to make it possible for the shipto unload itself at any port where thehighway veificles were located.

The new $22 million trailership termi-nal and headquarters for Sea-Land Serv-ice, Inc. at Elizabeth, New Jersey. Theterminal has a 54-acre marshaling yardwith a capacity of 2000 trailers. Thesite fronts on a 3300 foot long hulk-head with five vessel berths.

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