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Write today for Vital Information -- Check items you desire[] Fabulous 50 Miles [] Bulk Materials Handling Plant[] Annual Report [] Port Magazine

THE MIGHTYSOUTHWESTIS BUILDINGAND THE PORTOF HOUSTONIS HANDLINGTHE STEEL

From Dallas to Denver, fromKansas City to El Paso, and in allthe booming cities between, steelframeworks of new buildingsare shooting up into the sky. Tomaintain this building pace,more than a million tons of steelwas imported last year through thePort of Houston--much of itused right here where buildingpermits ranked third in the Nation.The secret? Direct loading fromvessel to rail car or truckeliminates handling charges, andopen wharves offer plentyof room for moving big, bulkycargoes. Frequent and regularsteamship services are availablefor all world trade. For informationhow the Port of Houston canserve you, write today toGeorge W. Altvater, managingdirector of trade relations anddevelopment, P. O. Box 2562,Houston, Texas 77001.

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PORTOF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

PORT OFHOUSTON

Official PublicationOf the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

Volume 8 April, 1966 No. 4

Directory OfPort Commissioners

And StaffFOR THE

Navigation District

ContentsPort Officials Entertain in Minneapolis-St. Paul .................. 8

W. C. Wells Named Port Commissioner ........................ 9

HOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanR. H. PRUETT, CommissionerE. n. HENDERSON, CommissionerW. D. HADEN, II, CommissionerW. C. WELLS. Commissioner

J. P. TURNER, Executive DirectorTRAVIS L. SM1TH, III

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 M. BRYANT, Director o/ International

RelationsEDWARD J. FAY, Director, World Trade CenterLLOYD GREGORY, Director o/ InJormationRICHARD P. LEACH, Chie] EngineerJ. R. CURTIS, Terminal ManagerK. P. RODEN,

Acting Manager o] Grain ElevatorW. J. STAGNER, Manager, Storage WarehousesJ. W. HATCHETT, Superintendent,

Bulk Materials Handling PlantV. D. WAFER, Accounts ManagerJ. T. WALL, Purchasing ManagerK. W. STEr’HENS, Personnel Manager and

World Trade Building ManagerC. L. SHUPTRINE, Chie/ Security O~icerW. E. REDMON, Maintenance SuperintendentT. E. WHATLEY, Administrative AssistantV. D. WILLIAMS, Administrative Assistant

Consular Corps Has Nine New Arrivals .................................. 10

The Houston Port Bureau Reports ....................................... 12

News In Views Around the Port of Houston ......................... 13

French Executives View Handling of Materials ............................ 14

Scene At The World Trade Club ..................................... 16

Grancolombiana Is Operating Fast and Efficient Fleet ..................... 17

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

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

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

THE COVER

Heading out to sea is the CIUDAD DE PASTO, one of the GrancolombianaLine’s attractive vessels. For an interesting history of the company, see Page 17.

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, IllinoisJOIIN 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

The Port oJ Houston Magazine

TED SUMERLIN, 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.

APRIL, 1966 7

PORT OFFICIALS ENTERTAIN IN MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL

The Port of Houston entertained friends in tile Minneapolis-

St. Paul area last month when George W. Altvater, managing

director of trade relations and dewdopment, and Hume A.

Henderson. Chicago district sah’s manager, visited Minne-

apolis. More than two dozen guests, representing manufactur-

ing and export-import interests, attended a dinner at the

famed Charley’s l{estaurant in Minneapolis and are seen here.,

with identification from left to right.

Mr. and Mrs. t. E. Wogensen, Barzen of Minneapolis, Inc., and Mr. andMrs. Vincent Burns, Pillsbury Mills, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Callson, General Mills, and Mr. and Mrs. G. C.Weatherill, Northrup King & Co.

Mr. and Mrs. W. J. deWinter, Jr., Peavey Flour Mills Co., and Mr. andMrs. John H. Bower, Pillsbury Mills, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Seaman, International Milling Co., and Mr. and Mrs.Marcos Irizarry, Minneapolis World Trading Co.

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. McGlashan, Peavey Flour Mills Co., Mr. and Mrs. L. R.Brewster, Wellens & Co., Inc., and Mrs. Ruth Wynn.

Mr. and Mrs. John Bottelson, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., and Mr. and Mrs.Paul Chuchel, Theo. Harem Brewing Co., St Paul.

Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Lonkey, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., and Mr. and Mrs.LeRoy Wellens, Wellens & Co., Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Tamisiea, Theo. Hamm Brewing Co., St. Paul, andMr. and Mrs. A. R. Galpin, Archer-Danlels-Midland Co.

Port of Houston’s George W. Altvater, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Strasma, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., and the Port’s Chicago representative, H. A. Henderson.

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FORMER BASKETBALL STAR

NOW HEADS LONGSHORE UNION

W.C. Named

Port Commissioner To

Succeed W. N Blanton

LESSONS ill team-work learned when

he starred on University of Houstonchampionship basket ball teams willserve him well as a member of the Hous-ton Port Commission.

This is the hope and expectation ofWillie C. Wells, recently appointed to thecommission by the Houston City Coun-cil.

Mr. Wells, president of Local 1273,International Longshoremen’s Associa-tion, replaced W. N. (’Bill) Blanton, whoresigned after nearly 13 years of service.

"There are five players on a basketball team, and they must ahsorb teamplay if the club is to win." Mr.Wells said. "There are five port commis-sioners. I want to work in harmony withmy fellow commissioners, and with Ex-ecutive Director Jerry Turner and hisstaff."

Mr. Wells, who was reared in the Portof Houston dock area, said:

"I hope 1 can help make the Port ofHouston the most progressive, produc-tive, and efficient port in the world, forI know just how much this port meansto the people of Harris County.

"To reach this goal, it will take thehelp of everyone--stevedore companies,steamship lines, longshoremen, port com-mission and its staff, and above all, the

APRIL, 1966

By LLOYD GREGORYDirector of Information

active support of every forward lookingcitizen of Harris County."

When in high school and college,Willie in the summer worked as a long-shoreman on the Port Houston docks.His father, Victor Wells, who died in1953, was vice president of the local hissun now heads.

Mr. Wells’ brother, Victor Jr. is amember of the same local.

In his office at 7811 Harrisburg,I.L.A. headquarters and hiring hall, Mr.Wells reminisced :

"I sort of grew up on the docks. Irememher when I was a skinny young-ster wrestling with 200-pound sacks offlour, a husky longshoreman patted meon the shoulder, and said softly: ’Willie,you’re just going to have to eat morecorn bread and black-eyed peas’."

Willie must have followed his elder’sadvice, for he grew 6 feet, 3 inches tall,weighing 182 pounds, and into a basketball star for Coach Alden Pasche’s Uni-versity of Houston Cougars. ( Inciden-tally, he weighs only 192 pounds now).

With Wells and Guy Lewis, now cagecoach of the Cougars, co-captains, theCougars won the 1946 and 1947 LoneStar Conference titles. Willie was theplay-maker; Guy the hot shot.

Born in Iola, Texas, Willie came withhis parents to Houston when he was

COMMISSIONER WELLS

seven. He atteuded Franklin, Edison andMilby high, where he starred in basketball, earning a Sam Houston StateTeachers’ College scholarship, and play-ing two years under Coach Puny Wilson,Texas Aggie football immortal.

Mr. Wells said: "Then came fouryears, and 18 days in Uncle Sam’s army.I was an anti-tank gunner in the corn-hat-tested 103rd division, first outfitacross the Rhine."

In the spring of 1947, Mr. Wells wasgraduated from the University of Hous-ton with a bachelor of science degree.

Mr. Wells’ local has around 1,000members, and he knows most of themembers by their first name. "This is ahig business," Mr. Wells said. "Memhersof this local earn around $8 million ayear, and with their families arc" a vitalfactor in the economy of HarrisCouuty."

Mr. Wells is proud of his family: hispretty wife, who was a Jeff Davis grad-uate, Marion Doris Mercer; his daugh-ter, Wanda, who works in The HoustonPost circulation department; WayneWells, 15, who is showing promise as aMilby basketeer; and Wendy, 7, a stu-dent in Park Place Elementary School.

The Wells are members of Park PlaceMethodist Church. They liw~ at 3027Pine Gully.

CONSULAR CORPS HASChina

A 23-year w~teran of the Chinese dip-lomatic service, new Consul GeneralTsing-Kang Chu comes to Houston from

TSING-KANG CHU

assigmnent as Counselor of Embassy inOttawa, Canada. He has long been in-wrested in Houston and helped dewqopthe sister city program between Houslonand Taipei as section chief in the For-eign Office’s North American Affairs1)cpartment from 1956 to 1960.

Chu was horn in Kiangsu Provincein 1922 and attended tile NationalSouthwest Associated University, major-ing in economies. During World War IIhe worked in government service inChungking, and entered the diplomaticservice in 1944.

Chu’s first overseas assignment wasto Vancouver in 1948 to 1956. and fol-lowing his tour of duty in the NorthAmerican Affairs Department he wassent to Washington as First Secretaryof Embassy, going to Ottawa in 1964.

Mr. and Mrs. Chu have two sons. onein Houston now and the other will re-main in Ottawa until the end of theschool year.

ColombiaElevation of the Colombian Consulate

in Houston to a Consulate Generalprompted the transfer of Marino Caicedofrom New Orleans, where he was Con-sul General, to fill the new post.

Caicedo has lived in the United Statessince 1954 when he left his own hard-ware and manufacturing business inColombia to join a metal working firmin San Francisco. Two years later hemoved to New York and then was ap-pointed Consul General in New Orleans.In 1959, he left the Consular Serviceand remained in New Orleans in privatebusiness until 1962, when tie was again

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named Colombian Consul General.Caicedo was born in Call, attended

the College of Santa Librada in Call,and the College Jos6 Maria Villegas inBuga, followed by two years of medicalschool at the Universidad Central ofQuito. Ecuador. From 1937 to 1941 hewas chief administrator and inspectorfor two oil companies in Colombia.

In 1953 tie returned to Buenos Aireswhere he headed the office of Admittanceand Visas for the Bureau of ConsularAffairs until his Houston assignment.

He was decorated with the Legion ofHonor by France in 1961.

Caride is married to the former MariaEtelvina Laguingc and they have twoboys. three and two.

Dominican RepublicA special request brought Modesto

Diaz L. to Houston as the new consulof the Dominican Republic. While Con-sul in Tampa, Florida, lie asked for atransfer because lie believes the Port ofHouston is of great importance in thecommerce and growth of his country.

MARINO CAICEDO

ArgentinaAlejandro V. Caride, Argentina’s new

Consul in Houston. brings a familiarname to the office as he is a first cousin ¯

of Federieo Caride who was consul herefrom 1957-1959.

A native of Buenos Aires, Caride was

ALEJANDRO V. CARIDE

educated in the Colegio del Salvadorand the University of LaPlata, where liestudied mining and geology. After work-ing for the Mining and Geology Depart-merit of the Ministry of War, Caridewas named First Secretary of Embassyin Paris in 1958 and consul in Cadiz,Spain, in 1961.

MODESTO DIAZ 1,.

Diaz was born in Santo Domingo in1937, and handled his family’s cattleranch after graduation from the Veteri-nary School of the University of SantoDomingo. He entered government ser-vice in 1962 as Consul at Nassau andwas general supervisor of the FiscalOffice in 1963. Two brothers are in theDominican consular service at Mobile,Alabama, and Jacksonville, Florida. An-other brother, formerly Secretary ofEmbassay in Washington and Consul inMobile, was killed during the revolution.

Diaz and his wife, Eunicc, have twodanghters, three and one.

EcuadorHouston is the first Consular post for

Ernesto Quifiones Perez, following a suc-cessful career in the real estate busi-ness in his native Ecuador.

Born in Quito, Quifiones went intobusiness after graduation from SanGabriel Jesuit College and in 1961turned the real estate company over tohis children, five sons and one daughter.

PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

NINE NEW ARRIVALSThree sons run it and three children arestill in school.

Quifiones hopes to increase the salesof Ecuadorean bananas, and plans an

Ueda served in China from 1943 to1945 and later with UNESCO in Japanfrom 1950-1952, during which time hetranslated Dr. Julian Hu, xley’s book"UNESCO, Its Purpose And Its Philoso-phy" and prepared a UNESCO reader."Peace and Culture." He has served inthe Foreign Office’s Department of In-formation and Cultural Affairs. and inthe Protocol Office.

Ueda and his wife, Kmniko. have ason, 21, and a daughter 19.

VenezuelaThe new Vice Consul of Venezuela.

Oetavio Alfonzo R., is on his second tourof duty in the Houston consulate office.having served here as vice consul ill1961-1963.

North American Affairs Section Of theForeign Office in 1963.

Chu is married and counts photogra-phy and coin collecting as his majorhobbies.

ERNESTO QUINONES PEREZ

exhibit at the State Fair of Texas. Al-though a businessman, diplomacy is notnew to his family as a cousin is Am-bassador to Rome and another is Con- .........sul General in Cali, Colombia His wife,the former Clcmencia Chiriboga, is asister of Ecuador’s former Ambassadorto Washington.

JapanContinuing a diplomatic career begun

in 1937, Koichi Ueda, Japan’s new Con-sul in Houston has a record of service in

KOICH1 UEDA

many departments of the Ministry ofForeign Affairs plus special service withUNESCO. Born in Kanazawa City in1911, Ueda grew up in Tokyo, where heattended Law School at Meiji Uni-versity, and laler attended the GraduateSchool of Arts and Sciences at NewYork University.

APRIL, 1966

CHIEN-YI CHU

......... The Netherlandsiiiii!iiii

........ Miss Maria Henriette de Bruegn has............. been made a Vice Consul in the Royal

Consulate Gcneral of The Netherlands,where she has served as chancellor forthe last two years. A native of’ TheHague, Miss de Bruegn has been withher country’s Foreign Service since

OCTAVIO ALFONZO R.

In 1963, he was transfered to Mon-treal, Canada, as vice consul. Beforejoining the Foreign Service, Alfonzo wasa sales supervisor of advertising andlater sales and advertising manager inVenezuela for Warner-Lambert Farma-cal from 1945 to 1960.

The 45-year-old native of El "Maco,"in the state of Nueva Esparta is marriedto the former Carmen Rodriguez. Theyhave six children, ranging in age fromsix to 18 years.

ChinaChien-yi Chu, new Vice Cotrsul of the

Republic of China, is serving his firstoverseas duty tour in the Houston Con-sulate General. He was born in 1938 inFu-Kian Province, on the mainland, andlater moved to Taiwan where he at-tended the National Chen-Chi Uni-versity.

Chu majored in diplomatic relationsfollowed hy graduate work, and did hismilitary service from 1961 to 1962. Fol-lowing this he took his foreign serviceexamination and was assigned to The

I lb~nMARIA HENRIETTE DE BRUEGN

shortly after World War I1, when shejoined the Embassy ira Ottawa.

Five years later she was in Washing-ton at the Embassy and three years laterwent to the Consulate General in New()relans as chancellor. For nearly fouryears she was with the Consulate Gene-ral and Trade Commission ()ffice Chicago and then served another threeyears at the Embassy ira Washington be-fore coming to Houston.

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SERVICE ORDER 976 issued by the Inter-state Commerce Commission on March 18,1966, reduces free time at the ports onboxcars and covered hopper cars from 7 daysto a maximum of 5 days and also proposes

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to increase the present charge of $5 per dayafter expiration of free time to $i0 perday for the first 4 days and $15 per daythereafter. The order was scheduled tobecome effective March 21, 1966, and toexpire December 31, 1966. However it sub-sequently has been amended by the Commis-sion to postpone the effective date toMarch 24, 1966, and to cancel increases incharges after the expiration of free timereturning them to their former level of$5 per day. Houston Port Bureau, Inc. alongwith numerous other shippers have protestedthis drastic action by the Commissionsince it is an undue burden upon exportcommerce. This order is stated to be forthe purpose of alleviating a drastic nation-wide car shortage.

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE Commission hassuspended and entered into an investigationof their lawfulness of train-load ratespublished by the Missouri Pacific andKansas City, Missouri-Kansas; Omaha andSouth Omaha, Nebraska; St. Louis, Missouriand East St. Louis, Illinois to Beaumontand Port Arthur, Texas and New Orleans,Baton Rouge and Port Allen, Louisiana. Therates consist of three different levelsconditioned to the ownership of the trans-porting equipment whether it be railroadowned or shipper owned. The rates will only

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apply in lots of 75 or more covered hoppercars subject to a minimum weight of 200,000pounds per car, and are tied down to re-strictions against transit privileges,switching and free time, also subjectedto higher demurrage charges. The protestedrates were to meet unregulated barge com-petition. The application as submitted wasdisapproved by a majority vote of therailroads and Missouri Pacific then con-cluded to establish these rates on inde-pendent notice to New Orleans, Baton Rougeand Port Allen, Louisiana, not withstandingthe fact that the distance to Houston inmost cases is considerably shorter thanto the Louisiana ports. Publication ofthese rates to the Louisiana ports withoutsimilar competitive rates to Houston seri-ously affects our ability to compete inthe export market and discriminates againstHouston and other Texas ports served bythe Missouri Pacific. This type of publi-cation fails to consider the impact theserates might have upon the Port of Houstonwhich is one of the leading wheat portsin the United States and upon the manyshippers who are not in a position toutilize this type of transportation. ThePort Bureau, other ports and numerous ship-pers filed petitions for suspension withthe Commission against these rates.

THE RAILROAD COMMISSION of Texas in itsGeneral Order No. 48 has re-defined andprescribed a new commercial zone for truckoperations in the Houston area in keepingwith Senate Bill 470 which authorizedthe Railroad Commission of Texas afterinvestigation to make certain additionalchanges in commercial zone areas. The newHouston Commercial Zone shall include:

A. The incorporated city of Houston.B. The following cities and towns which

are adjacent to and commercially apart of the city of Houston: SpringValley, Hedwig Village, Hunter’s CreekVillage, Piney Point Village, HilshireVillage, Bunker Hill Village, Bell-aire, West University Place, SouthsidePlace, Galena Park, Jacinto City,Missouri City, Pearland, Friendswood,Webster, League City, Seabrook, Shore-acres, La Porte, Lomax, Deer Park,Pasadena, South Houston, Baytown,E1Lago, Taylor Lake Village, JerseyVillage and Humble.

PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

Airplanes for the fight against insects and plant diseasesaround the world have started moving through the Port ofHouston with the shipment of five Aero-Commander, Inc. cropdusting planes to Sweden aboard the Wilhelmsen Line’sTOPEKA recently. Shown here being prepared for crating bythe American Export Crating Company is one of the $30,000aircraft. James Byrd, American Export, reports that Aero-Com-mander expects to ship about one hundred such aircraft in thecoming year. Strachan Shipping Co. is agent in the Gulf for thealternate service to Continental and Scandinavian ports by theWm. Wilhelmsen Lines and the Swedish American Line.

%Italian art objects commissioned by the Renaissance Popes

and now in the French National Museum at the Louvre, theCluny Museum and the Mobilier National, all in Paris, wererecently shipped to Houston aboard the S. S. ZOELLA LYKESto be used in a display of Renaissance Art by the University ofSt. Thomas here. Shown inspecting one of the crates prior tounloading at the Port of Houston are Joseph Aleo, representa-tive of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. and Miss GenevieveAllemant of the Louvre staff, who accompanied the art objectson the trip.

News In Views Around The Port Of Houston

Third time’s a charm, or so the officials of the Manitou &Pike’s Peak Railway Company hoped, when one of their 80passener diesel cog rail cars, used to carry tourists up anddown Pike’s Peak, went through the Port of Houston for thethird time recently. The car, manufactured in Switzerland andimported through Houston late in 1963, had engine coolingproblems at high altitudes and had to be returned to thefactory, via Port of Houston again. Here the car is shown beinglifted from the Deppe Line’s M. V. GAND at the Port of Hous-ton on its return trip to Manitou on a Fort Worth and DenverRailway Co. fiat car. Custom brokerage was handled by E. R.Hawthorne & Co., Inc.

Cherry Blossom Time in Houston will never be--at least withJapanese cherry trees. A Japanese friend of Houston, wantingto express his appreciation of the city’s friendliness, arrangedto ship a number of Japanese cherry tree seedlings to Houstonas a gift to the city. Bundles ef the seedlings were placed ineach officer’s cabin aboard the Yamashita-Shinnihon Line MotorShip SADOHARU MARU where the plants could receive indi-vidual care. But a U.S. Department of Agriculture ruling barringall Japanese plant life from the U. S. stopped their delivery.Looking at the trees aboard ship are, left to right, H. Matsu-moto, shipline representative; the ship’s purser; S. Moriyama,manager, Toyomenka, Inc., Houston office; Alexander Arroyos,R. W. Smith & Co., and Captain M. Asai.

Leading lady publicity was given the new queen of the LykesBros. Steamship Co., Inc.’s fleet, the S. S. LOUISE LYKES, whenshe made her first voyage to the Port of Houston in earlyMarch. Reporter-photographer teams from area newspapersand television stations were given a complete tour of America’smost automated cargo ship by Captain James E. Baker, as°sistant manager of Lykes’ Houston Marine Division, and CaptainH. G. Beck, ship’s master. Here Captain Baker, rear center, ex-plains operation of the ship’s engine room control console tosome of the newsmen. Extensive space and air time was de-voted to the unique vessel by Houston area news media.

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French Executives View Handlinq uf Materials

Port Director of Operations C. E. Bullock, second from left,and Acting Grain Elevator Manager Kenneth Roden, third fromleft, describe operations to M. Rappaport, (center, dark glasses)of the French Ministry of Industry, who was interpreter. Rightforeground is Simon Cottrell, French Trade Commissioner inHouston.

A team of ranking ex(,cutives from l:rench ports and porloriented industries visited the Port of Houston last month to

study all aspeets of materials handling. Sponsored by tilt:French Materials Handling Institute of Paris, the group hadpreviously visiled the ports of New York/Newark, Philadel-phia, Bahimore, Norfolk/Newport News and New Orleans.

In Housttm, the visiting I"renehmen ~ere taken on a tour ofport facilities by Direclor of Port ()peratlons C. E. Bullock.

They visited the Public Grain Elevator ~dth Acting ElevatorManager lxennelh t{oden; saw the Sea-Land container opera-tion as guesls of Sea-Land’s Terminal Manager f{. F. Huette;inspeeted Ill(, new $800,000 hea~y llrl crane fro eontainer(:argo handling; toure([ wharves amt transit she(Is; had luncheon lrip on the SAM HOt-STON, and ended with ahmr of the Ihllk Materials Handling Plant with Plant Super-inlendent J. W. Hatehetl.

Simon (5)tm.ll, French ’[’rade Commissioner in Houston,arranged the visit tlm)ugh th(" cooperation of th(’ Port’s Officeof lnter,ati())ml Ih,lations.

Standing by a tilted rail car unloading wheat at the grainelevator are M. Feve, director of operations of the Port ofDunkerque; Jose Van Zandycke, director of operations ofIntramar of Marseille, and J. Philippe-Desneufbourgs, generalmanager of Fabre& Co., Marseille, one of France’s largestshipping companies.

The loading and unloading of containers to and from vesseland shipside trucks fascinated the French visitors. Here M.Fonsart, civil engineer of the French National Railroads, Paris,takes photos, while Henri Binachon, right, of Joseph Paris Co.of Nantes, watches intently. At left is R. F. Huette, Sea-Landterminal manager, and in center is Michael Macari of theFrench Line’s Dallas office.

M. Rappaport, right, explains truck dumping of wheat at thegrain elevator to, from left, M. Frappe, manager of the in-dustrial department of the Chamber of Commerce & Industryof Dunkerque; Andre Calandre, service manager of theAuxiliary Company of Coal Supplies to Port Facilities in Paris,and Robert Carron, director of operations of the Chamber ofCommerce and Industry of Cherbourg.

On the bridge of the Sea-Land ship AZALEA CITY, TerminalManager Huette talks to Team Interpreter Rappaport, at right,while Auguste Vincenti, left, director of the National Union ofPort Handling Industries in Paris, and Messrs. Fonsart andMacari listen. The group toured the visiting Sea-Land vesselfrom top to bottom.

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On board the SAM HOUSTON, Houston Chamber of Com-merce General Manager Gordon Turrentine, right, and J. M.Lykes, Jr., executive vice president of Lykes Bros. SteamshipCo., Inc., second from left, show points of interest to AndreFossorier, general manager of the New Company of Gearsand Ground Tackles in Rouen, and Andre Calandre.

Olin M. Lacy, left, Vice President of E. S. Binnings Co., agentsfor the French Line, stands on the bow of the SAM HOUSTONwith Messrs. Feve and Vincenti, and Andre-Paul Hautot, di-rector of transportation for the Commercial Chartering andFuel Supply Co. of Puteaux.

George W. Altvater, managing director of trade relationsand development of the Port of Houston, second from left, isshown with Messrs. Binachon and Frappe, left and right re-spectively, and M. Bastard, engineer of the Port of Rouen,center.

Yves Rodrigues, left, French Consul General in Houston, isshown pointing out shipping activity on the Houston channelto M. Barotte, manager of handling facilities of the Frenchsteamship company "Chargeurs Reunis," from Paris, and JoseVan Zandycke of Marseille.

Frank VanHeugten, left, Biehl & Co., Houston, steamshipagents for several lines calling at French ports, is shown withFrench Trade Commissioner Cottrell, Jean Marceron, directorof metropolitan transportation for the Commercial Charteringand Fuel Supply Co. in Puteaux, and the French Line’s MichaelMacari.

APRIL, 1966

The Port of Houston visit terminated at the Bulk MaterialsHandling Plant on Greens Bayou where Jerry Hatchett, plantsuperintendent, (back to camera) is shown with Port Directorof Operations Bullock and Team Interpreter Rappaport as theydebarked from the SAM HOUSTON. Other group membersview the giant facility as they await a closer tour of inspection.

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SEENE AT THE

U. S. Secretory of Commerce John T. Connor, right, was inHouston recently to present an "E" export award to the Uni-versity of Houston and to meet with the South Texas RegionalExport Expansion Council. Shown with him at the Export Ex-pansion Council meeting in the World Trade Club are, left toright, Ray B. Brimble, R.E.E.C. regional chairman and presi-dent of the Brimble Brothers Lumber Co., Inc.; Gail Whitcomb,president of the Chamber of Commerce; and Edward T.Fecteau, Jr., director of the Houston Field Office of the Com-merce Department.

The Mayor of Bremen, Germany, Burgermeister Hans Kosch-nick, center was o guest of the Port of Houston last month for atour of the ship channel and port facilities and luncheon inthe World Trade Club. He is shown here in the Club with T. E.Dugey, vice president of Biehl & Co., agents for the Bremen-based North German Lloyd Line; Konrad Grill, commercial of-ricer of the German Consulate; J. P. Turner, executive directorof the Port of Houston, and George W. Altvater, managing di-rector of trade relations and development for the Port.

The Houston representative of NOPAL Steamship Company,A. M. Alvarez, right, of Biehl & Co., was host at a gathering toannounce the establishment of a new service between the Gulfof Mexico and West Africa. Among the guests were, left toright, William Cummings and Byron Wilson of J. R. Michels,Inc. and Robert Gay, Baroid Division of the National Lead Co.

Expansion of U.S. trade with Poland and Rumania was thesubject of Thomas P. Collier, center, international managementconsultant from Los Angeles who addressed the World TradeAssociation at Houston’s World Trade Club last month. Founderand past president of the Motorola Overseas Corporation,Collier recently was a member of a U.S. Department of Com-merce team exploring business and trade possibilities in Polandand Rumania. He found prospects for such trade encouragingand urged an easing of present government export-importcontrols. With him above are Edward P. Fecteau, Jr., (right)director of the Department of Commerce Houston field office,and Clarence Dupre, Association program director who madethe introduction.

Andre Andre-Dumont, center, general manager of theArmement Deppe, S.A. of Antwerp, which operates the DeppeLine, was guest of honor at a reception in the World TradeClub last month given by George M. J. Elliott, left, ConsulGeneral of Belgium. With them is Svend Hansen, president ofHansen & Tidemann, agents for the Deppe Line in the Gulf.

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A lot of experience in cooking and restaurant management,is reflected in the two youthful newcomers who have takenover the jobs of manager and chef at Houston’s World TradeClub. Benito "Benny" Giurintano is a native of Savonna, Italy,and cooked in and managed restaurants and clubs in Wash-ington, Iran, Chile and Peru before coming to Houston fouryears ago. Rheinhold Lukas, a native of Vienna, started out inthe kitchens of Augsburg, Germany, then Vienna’s famedSacher Hotel and Vienna’s world-renowned KahlenbergRestaurant, before coming to Houston two years ago.

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Sailing 60,000 Miles Per Month To 90 World Ports

The REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA on her maiden voyageproudly displays the array of booms, including the 80-tonheavy lift, with which she is equipped. From the bridge, below,the master has complete control over the main propulsion en-gine. Every maneuver is recorded. Grancolombiana Is

Operating Fast And

Efficient Fleet

The handsome gray-hulh, d vessels of the Flota MercanteGrancolombiana have been a familiar sight in the Port ofHouston from that day in tile spring of 1947 when the fledo-ling South American line began service into the Gulf.

At the time it had seven vcssels, all of them war surpluscargo-type bought from the United Statcs, and the threecountries of Venezuela. Colombia and Ecuador-historicallyknown as "(;ran Colombia" had combined to get the linestarted.

Today the owners are the National Federation of CoffeeGrowers of Colombia, with 80 per cent of the stock, and theNational Bank of Development of Ecuador, with 20 per cent.Venezuela pulled out in 1953 to establish its own line knownas the Compafifa An6nima Venezolana de Naw,gaci6n (Seethe PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE April, 1963).

Also today, the Grancolombiana fleet, instead of the se~enwar-surplus U. S. vessels now numbers 28 modern, fast.efficient ships with an average of another 14 under charterat all times. Additionally, it is continuing its expansion withthe building of six new vessels, three in Germanv and threein Spain, with the first four already in service.

The Flota Grancolomhiana has thus come a long way in the

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tries served by the Grancoloinbiana Line. this twenty.year oldsteamship venture is also finding ready aeeeptance of its ser-vice by exporlers of manufaetured goods in the U S. amtEurope to these countries.

Indicative of the suecess of the line is its present capitalof in excess of 850 million t USCv~. with no debt. and itscontinued expansion and building program.

Latest of the ships to join the Graneolombiana fleet are theREPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA. the CIUDAD DE BOGOTA.the REPUBLICA DE ECUADOR and the CIUDAD DEBUCARAMANGA. the first three built in Oermany amt thefourth in Spain. with two nmre of the same type due to bedelivered from shipyards in Seville. Spain. before the endof the year.

These six folhm, closely behind eight other handsome newships acquired earlier at a cost of more than $25 million{USCyl on a barter basis in exchange for coffee and likewisebuilt in shipyards of Germany and Spain. Each of these lattereight vessels has 12.000 tons displacement, a speed of 19knots and a refrigerated capacity of some 60.000 cubic feet.used for bringing bananas from Eeuador to the U. S.

The Flota is particularly proud of the new vessels in itspresent construelion program, and according to the company,they art* among the most advanced type of merchant ships,with remote control from the bridge where the Captain (’anmaneuver the main propulsion engine.

A(’eommodations and facilities include complete air condi-tioning of cabins and in addition to crew and officer accommo-dations offer an owner’s cabin and four additional cabins forcompany personnel. Speed is at 20 knots with a draft of

The merchant flag of Colombia flies proudly from the sternof the CIUDAD DE POPAYAN as a group of Colombian seamentake a short break while the vessel is in port at Houston.

New ships of the Grancolombiana Fleet are equipped forcarrying containers in both 10 foot and 20 foot sizes. Here oneof the "Grancontainers" is being loaded aboard a vessel.

twenty years since the three northern South American coun-tries organized the line in 1946 with a capital of $12 million(USCy)

Following their liberation from Spain by Sim6n Bolivar.the area comprised by Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador wasknown as Grancolombia, until 1830 when the three countriesbecame independent of each other--hence the choice of aname.

Today the Flota Grancolombiana operates on a dozen traderoutes, to 32 nations, calling at 90 different ports. It coversan aw~ragc 60,000 maritime miles monthly and links northernSouth America with the U. S. East and West Coasts, theCaribbean, Canada and European ports.

During World War ]I the Grancolombiana countries be-came acutely aware of their serious transportation problemin shipping as their exports and imports were almost whollydependent on foreign vessels, and these w’ssels were engagedin war service.

In order to have sufficient tonnage to handle their postwarexports and imports, and to establish equitable rates for mari-time transportation with a special eye to keeping rates lowfor their own exportable products such as coffee, cacao, ba-nanas, sugar, ivorynut, balsa and similar items--the Graneo-lombiana countries decided to form their own shipping service.

Today the Colombian Coffee Growers claim they are ableto deliver their coffee to the markets of the world at the lowestpossible rates of transportation, and the same is true for Ecua-dor with its coffee, cacao and bananas, the latter a commodityin which Ecuador has now taken world supremacy.

With the rapidly developing economy of Colombia, as wellas those of other North and West coast South American eoun-

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27’ 6". and able to reach 21 knots during normal cruisingservice.

H. C. Stulcken, Sohn, of Hamburg, built the first threevessels and they carry the famed Stulcken g0 ton heavy boombesides 18 other booms of 10 ton capacity. There are alsocranes below the ’tween decks for handling containers up to25 tons--the first time such cranes have been used aboardmerchant ships, according to the company.

()ther features of the REPUBLICA DE COLOMBIA classvessels arc elevators in the main holds for handling general<’argo and elevators in the refrigerated holds. These latter,connected to conveyor belts, permit hourly movement of 3,600stems of bananas each, at capaeity.

The vessels are 544 feet long with a beam of 69 feet anda deadweight tonnage of 12,250 tons, with single propeller andsingle diesel engine. With an eye to containerization move-ment. they have capacity for g8 twenty foot containers or176 ten foot containers, in addition to 135,000 cubic feet ofrefrigerated cargo space, including 21,000 cubic feet of frozencargo. Total dry cargo capacity is 4¢7,000 cubic feet and97,000 cubic feet for containerized dry cargo.

The Hota (,rancolomhiana operators’out of Houston on anaw’rage of one sailing weekly to ports of Colombia andEcuador. and twice monthly sailings to Peruvian ports. Thevessels generally berth at City Wharf No. 1~. and their heavycoffee cargo helps make Houston the nation’s third port inthe importation of that popular product.

E. S. Binnings & Co. are agents for Grancolombiana in theGulf. Company headquarters arc in Bogotfi, Colombia. Inthe 17. S., headquarters are in New York.

Swinging majestically in the Turning Basin at the Port ofHouston, the CIUDAD DE BARRANQUILLA prepares to nudgeinto her berth at City Wharf No. 4, principal berth for vesselsof the Flota Grancolombiana. General cargo is being loaded,below, from Wharf 4.

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Books PublishedThe Purser’s Handbook by William

E. Armstrong and the Blue Book ofQuestions and Answers for Second Mate,Chief Mate and Master by Captain W.A. MaeEwen have been published by

the Cornell Maritime Press, Inc. of Cam-bridge, Maryland.

The two new books are l)ractical illtheir viewpoints and contain tile mostup-to-date information available. Theycall be ordered from most book storesor direct from the publisher.

FA ST SER VICETO THE CONTINENTAND SCANDINAVIA

Alternate Service

WILHELMSEN LINES--SWEDISH AMESCAN LINERegular Freight and Refrigerated Service

FROM GULF PORTSto

LE HAVRE - ANTWERP - GHENT- ROTTERDAMBREMEN - HAMBURG

OSLO - GOTHENBURG - COPENHAGEN - MALMOSTOCKHOLM - HELSINKI - GDYNIA

STRACHAN SHIPPING COMPANYGENERAL AGENTS

Houston Omce1400 Cotton Exchange Bldg. CA 8-1431

Other OfficesGalveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Miami, Port Everglades, Jacksonville,

Savannah, Dallas, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City,Chicago, Atlanta, Cincinnati

New York AgentsBarber Steamship Lines, Inc.- Furness, Withy & Co., Ltd.

David E. Grieve, who has been inHouston since 1960, and who has beenconnected with the shipping businesssince World War II, has opened his ownbusiness as a customhouse broker at4000 North Freeway, Houston. Grievehas worked for the War Shipping Ad-ministration, the Arabian-American OilCompany and for various customs brok-ers in New York, Seattle, New Orleans,Galveston and Houston.

DOW OFFICIAL ELECTED

Bobert L. Bryant, corporate marinemanager of the Dow Chemical Company,Freeport, Texas, was elected chairmanof lhe board of the American WaterwaysOperators, Inc. He succeeds GreshamHougland, who continues as a director.Braxton B. Carr was elected to his tenthterm as president.

LYKES GREAT NEW CARGOLINERS-SYMBOL OFPROGRESS FOR HOUSTON’S WORLD TRADE

LYKES BROS. STEAMSHIP CO., INC.COTTON EXCHANGE BUILDING, HOUSTON.OFFICES AT: NEW ORLEANS, HOUSTON, GALVESTON, NEW YORK, Beaumont, Brownsville, Chicago, Corpus Christi. Dallas,Kansas City, Lake Charles, Memphis, Mobi]e, Port Arthur, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington, D.C. OFFICES AND AGENTS IN PRINCIPAL WORLD PORTS

LYKES 6 WORLDTRADE ROUTES

U.K. LINECONTINENT LINEMEDITERRANEAN LINEAFRICA LINEORIENT LINE

CARIBBEAN LINE

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Leo Woodall, center, sales manager in Texas and Oklahoma for Gulf Puerto RicoLines, is welcomed to Houston by George W. Altvater, right, managing director oftrade relations and development of the Port of Houston, with Stanley A. Greig, GulfPuerto Rico’s sales representative in New Orleans. A subsidiary of McLean Industries,Gulf Puerto Rico Lines will begin container ship operations between Houston andPuerto Rico this Spring, using the terminalfacilities at Houston of McLean’s Sea-Land Service.

Shipping Bureau

Elects Two MenHerbmt J. I;rvnsley. president. Brm~n

& l{ool Operators, and ~. H. Moore~president. The Offshore Company, x~ereamong those dectcd to the membershil~of lhe Ammican Bureau of Shipping atthe IOllh Annual Meeting of the Bu-reau hdd in New York.

The membership of the Hurt’au, an in-ternational ship classification societywhich cstablisln,s standards for the con-struction and maintenance of merchantw,ssels, is composed of shiltowm,rs, ship-builders, marine underwrih,rs and otherpersons t;rominvntlv identified ~ithmaritime commerce.

BEN H. MOOREINSURANCE

MARINE- CASUALTY- FIRECable: MOORDEEN

915 World Trade Bldg. CA 8-5227

GULF PORTS CRATING CO.Export PackingCommercial--MilitaryBoxing--Crating--Processing

1600 N, 7Sth Street WA 3-5551

E. S. Binnings, Inc.Steamship Agents

711 FANNIN, SUITE 906Telephone: CApitol 5-0531

HOUSTON, TEXAS

¢rC.T.O. LINE

(Manila and Far East)

FRENCH LINE(French Atlantic)

HANSA LINE(Med./Red Sea/Persian Gulf)

GRANCOLOMBIANA LINE

Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, PeruPanama via Cristabal

OFFICESNEW ORLEANS HOUSTON

MEMPHIS GALVESTONST. LOUIS DALLAS

REGULAR DIRECT SERVICE FROM GOLF PORTS TOJEDDAH ¯ DJIBOUTI ¯ BOMBAY ¯ COCHIN̄ MADRAS̄CALCUTTA

New Orleans Galveston HoustonState of MADHYA PRADESH April 30 May 4 May 3VISHUA MENGAL May 25 May 29 May 30

GULF AGENTSNEW ORLEANS ¯ Abaunza Steamship Agency Corp. ̄ 540 International Trade Mart ̄ JA 2-6101HOUSTON ¯ Abaunza Steamship Agency Corp. ̄ 203 Marine Building ̄ CApitol 2-9601GALVESTON ¯ Abaunza Steamship Agency Corp. ¯ 512 U. S. National Bank Bklg. ̄ SOuthfield 5-9483MOBILERorton, Lilly & Company, Inc. ̄ Marine Bulk Ore Terminal ° HEmlock 3-1536

LILLY & COMPANY, INC. - General Agents * 26 Beaver Street, N.Y. 4,N.Y.

FEARNLEY & EGER, asia, Norway

Fast Freight, Reefer, Deep Tank and Passenger Service

U. S. GULF / FAR EAST SERVICERegular Sailings From:

HOUSTON ¯ GALVESTON ¯ BEAUMONTMOBILE ¯ NEW ORLEANS

ALSO OTHER TEXAS PORTS AS CARGO WARRANTS

MANILA ¯ HONG KONG ¯ BANGKOK ¯ SAIGON ¯ SINGAPORED JAKARTA ¯ PORT SWETTENHAM ¯ PENANG ¯ BELAWAN DELl

General Agents Agents:

FEARNLEY & EGER, INC. BIEHL & COMPANYSixth Floor, WORLD TRADE BLDG.,29 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10006 HOUSTON, TEXAS

344-3770 CApitol 2-9961

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CABLE: MAH¢O FBM 2187

M. G. Maher & Co., Inc.Customhouse Brokers ~ Foreign Freight Forwarders

Members: Custom Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, Inc.

Sanlin Building 802 World Trade CenterNew Orleans 12, Louisiana Houston, Texas

Telephone: 524-7566 FAirfax 3-4101TWX.504-822-5340 TWX-713-571-1283

e~Through an aggressive program of trade development, DeltaSteamship Lines, Incorporated, has increased its export ship-ments to more than fifty per cent of cargo tonnage. The firmsuccessfully promotes American products and tourism in LatinAmerica and Africa, aids manufacturers to sell abroad, and hasdeveloped the first floating exhibition in the Mobile Trade Fairsprogram. These energetic and imaginative efforts reflect crediton the Company and its employees and contribute materiallyto the export expansion program of the United States.~

¯ . . cited by the Secretary of Commerce upon confer-ring the President’s ’E’ Award for Export Service

That’s why Delta Line’s people wear the

There’s a Delta liner sailing every week to South America, everyten days to West Africa, and Delta Line’s network of offices at homeand abroad is anxious to assist you.

DELTA STEAMSHIP LINES, INC.P. O. Box 50250, New OrEeans, La. 70150

New York ¯ Washington ̄ Chicago ¯ Houston

SERVICE!!

Singapore

ORIENT OVERSEAS LINELONE STAR SHIPPING INC.

HOUSTON , GALVESTON , BEAUMONTC A 4-7531 SO 5-9041 TE 3-7465

THOR ECKERT&CO. INC. U.S. GENERAL AGENTIII I II I [

Professor Enrico Dossi, president ofthe Youth Tourist Center of Italy and amember of the governing body of theItalian Government Travel Office, shownwith a painting of the Port of Houston inthe World Trade Club during a visit toHouston while on a tour of the UnitedStates to encourage youth travel in Italy.Arrangements for Dossi in Houston weremade by Achille Arcidiacono, ItalianTrade Delegate, and the Institute of In-ternational Education.

Launches BoatDravo Shipyard has launched a new

towboat for Humble Oil and RefiningCompany that will push eight bargesalong tilt’ Mississippi and Cunfl)erlandRivers. Total h’ngth of the tow will be1190 feet with a width of 108 feet andit will haw, a product capacity of 200.-000 barrels.

Traffic Is UpThe Corps of Engineers estimates that

inland water-borne commerce in 1965showed a two per cent increase oxer196-1. During 1965 tile total tonnage wasapproximately 468 million tons. A totalof 256 billion ton miles was recordedon the inland waterways, inchlding theGreat l,akcs.

Course OfferedThe Transportation Center at North-

western University will present a four-week program of advanced transporta-tion nmnagement starting April 30. Theconference is designed for executivesfrom carrier, shipper and equipmentsupplier companies.

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