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PORT OF

HOUSTON

Official PublicationOf the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

Volume 5

Directory Of OfficialsFOR THE

Port of HoustonPORT COMMISSIONERSHOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanW. N. BLANTON, Vice ChairmanJOHN G. TURNEYW. M. HATTENWILLIAM W. SHERRILL

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August, 1963 No 8

AUGUST, 1963

KLC Calling ....................................................... 8

Port Construction Continues Rapidly ................................... 10

Belgian Ship is Welcomed On Maiden Voyage ......................... 12

Former Discus Star Is International Banker ........................... 13

Visitors See The Port of Houston ............................... 14

The Big Splash .............................................. 15

News In Views .................................................. 16

The Houston Port Bureau Reports ................................. 17

N.Y.K. Line Links Two Rich Markets .................................. 18

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

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

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

THE COVER

The NEW YORK MARU, an N.Y.K. Line vessel in the Gulf/Far East Serviceis tied up at the Port of Houston to discharge a cargo of products from Japan.To learn more about this largest of all Oriental lines 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.

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

By CARL D. BONDInternational Relations

Representative

Tilree days out of Panama on its ~¢vayto Houston a Japanese cargo ship plo~sthrough the (,ulf of Mexico. its radioreceiver tuned to 6369 kilocycles.

Soon over the air waw’s comes a cryp-tic message from the ship’s agent inHouston. inforining the captain of thetime he is to pick up the Houston Pilotoff Bolivar Roads and the Port of Hous-lob dock where the ship ~ill tie Ul).

~.nother routine, but vital, messagehas been relayed between a ship andthe land by (;alveston Radio. KI,C. [)artof the ~orht-wide network of marinecommunications radio stations operatedbv Mackay Radio and Telegraph Com-p~my, Inc.. an operating division of In-ternational Telephone and Telegraph.

Known as Galveston Radio becauseil ~as originally located on Galveston

Island. KLC is generally referred to as"The Voice of the Port of Houston"because such a high portion of its traf-fic concern ship movements in and outof the inland port.

Now located at Arcadia. Texas, KLCoperates seven transmitters. The mostpowerful one, rated at 20,000 watts witha daylight range of 15,000 miles, usesthe antenna originally built for KGUL-TV qnow KHOU-TV). It is used tontonitor the international emergencyfrequencies of ’184 k.e. and 500 k.e.

The other six transmitters are allrated at 5,000 watts and are used fornormal communications. KLC operatesits regular services on 2069 k.c., 4256k.¢.. 6369 k.e., 8666 k.e., 13038 k.e.,17208.8 k.c. and 22539 k.c. The higherfrequencies "penetrate" bad weatherconditions better than the lower fre-quencies and do not require as muchpower to transmit long distances.

All messages carried by KLC are sentin International Morse Code, generallyusing one of the universally known ab-breviation systems such as the "Q"group. In this method groups of threeletters, starting with letter Q. stand fora commonly used message.

The "Q" list has a letter combina-tion that covers ahnost anything that a

District Manager W. M. Vogt inspectstwo of KLC transmitters. The one in tileforeground is the 20,000 watttransmitter, the other is one of tile5,000 watt units.

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John Carlisle, one of the KLCoperators monitors the air waves to pickup incoming messages while Mrs. J.Harris sends a land line teletype message.In the meantime, an automatic tapecontrolled transmitter broadcasts a signalgiving the channels being monitored.

shi t, o~ner or agenl might want to tellor to hear from time ship’s captain. Inthis way, differences in languages areavoided.

KLC is ti~e only station of the Mac-kay network in the Gulf so it is used byagents and owners to communicate will1ships using all Gulf ports, includingthose in Mexico.

All land cornrnunieations are handledby way of teletype. On receipt of a tele-type message at the stalion it is imme-diately relayed to thc ship . . . if theship can be "raised" or contacted. If theship cannot be reached the message isbroadcast periodically until the shipreplies.

Most cargo ships do not maintainfull-time radio communications. Usuallya cargo ship will have only one radiooperator who works eight hours out oftwenty-four. Sornetirnes they will worka straight eight hour shift or sometimesIhey will divide it up into severalshorter shifts. So KLC must keep tryingto raise the ship until thev ¢:ontaet theoperator during his duty time.

The ¢’ommunications radio station ison the air full time . . . 24 hours a day,:]65 days a year. Mackay employs 10or 1l people at KLC. During the daytwo operators are on duty, plus a sec-retary. During the evening and nightshifls only one man stays on duty un-less traffic is particularly heavy.

In addition to operating KLC, Mac-kay has service contracts with most ofthe American ships and many of theforeign flag vessels that call at the Porlof Houston. Mackay men are trained

and equipped to install, maintain andrepair all types of shipboard electronicgear from depth finders to radar an-|enna.

In addition to private message broad-casts, KLC broadcasts four regularweather reports daily, receives ~eatherreports from ships for passing along tothe Weather Bureau and relays requestsfrom the Weather Bureau for specialreports from ships in areas of disturbedweather conditions.

During the winter months the Gulfweather reports over KLC are listenedto as eagerly off the west coast of south-ern Mexico as they are on the east coast.The howling north winds that sometimessweep across the Texas plains and inlothe (,ulf continue on south until theyhit the central Mexican mountains. Themountains funnel the winds through thepasses and onto the West coast, upset-ling boa|s, uprooting trees and damag-ing buildings.

The large tract of land where thestation is located is filled with buriedcopper ground wires to aid in the sta-tion’s ground wave signal. The air aboveground is a spider web of high fre-quency antennas, each one in a care-fully plotted shap¢~ and with wires meas-ured to exact lengths.

The station w~ls moved from Galves-Ion Island inland for several reasons.

Radio room aboard the S.S. BRINTONLYKES. Mackay Radio maintains and

services all shipboard electronicequipment.

l:or one thing its old location x~as t)e-coming too crowded with buildings.Also the salt from the sea air condensedon th(~ antenna wires, causing a highincidence of interference. Both prob-lems were eliminated when the stationmoved inland.

In addition to KLC, Maekay Radiooperates two stations in the New Yorkarea. WSL at Amagansett and ~{SI: inNew Y~rk harbor; three stations onthe Pacific coast, KFS, San Francisco,KOK, Los Angeles, and KLB, Seattle"and one station in the Far East. I)ZG]Manila.

AUGUST, 1963 9

Workmen arc picking up tile tempo as they approach thecompletion of three new wharves for the Port of Houston.Wharf 23, where the railroad tracks cross at the center of thepicture, is already in use. Wharves 24 and 25 will have spacioustransit sheds, similar to those at Wharves 21 and 22 above.Warehouse 25-A, directly above, is ready for use.

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PORT CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES RAPIDLYConstruction is proceeding at a rapid ......

pace on the modern steel transit shed ......on the Navigation Dist’rlct’s newWharves No. 24 and 25, on the right, ...........which will mark the completion of con-struction and modernization projectstotaling $31.5 million. The photographon the page opposite gives a bird’s eyeview of the facilities at the HoustonTurning Basin. On the right is a close-up view of the ~teel framework beingerected on Wharf 2~1.. The new transitshed has a single peak roof and will be200 feet wide and 1080 feet long. Asingle row of columns down the centerare on 48 foot centers. A five-foot re-inforced concrete curtain wall aroundthe base of the building will give addedprotection to cargo inside the shed. Thehuge transit shed over the two wharvesis being built at a cost of $383,280. Thebuilding will have five ground flooroffices and rest room facilities and threeupper level offices. Modernization ofexisting wharves continues, as shown inthe photo below. A concrete transit shedbuilt in the early 1930’s has been de-molished and a new clear span truss typesteel buihling is now under construc-tion. The new transit shed will have60,500 square feet of storage spacewithout interior columns and will pro-vide 20 feet of head room. The newstructure will have roll-up doors alongboth sides and at each end. Cost of re-modeling this wharf, including newfootings and a reinforced concrete floor,totals $261~,600.

AUGUST, 196311

Belgian

Welcomed

On Maiden

Voyage HereWith flags flying in a good breeze beneath a bright sun, theBelgian Line’s new 12,700 ton JORDAENS lies at City I)ock 19on her maiden voyage Io Houston.

Maiden voyages of proud new cargo w.ssels are airways aLLimportant event at the Port of Houston and last month’sarrival of the neu Belgian cargoliner JORDAENS was noexception.

Dressed out with tlags and with her Imle gray hull spar-kling in the summer sun, the JORDAENS tied up at Cit~l)oek 19 barely a month out of the Coekerill-Ougree Ship var~twhich built her for the Compagnie Maritime Beige for itstrade to New York. Gulf ports, West Afrlea and N,wthernEurope.

A maiden voyage party lhat night aboard ship was a fes-tive occasion marked by presentation of a plaque of welcomeby the Junior Chamber of Commerce and attended by lumi-naries of Houston’s port, shipping and foreign trade industry.

The ]ORDAENS is a rather special eargoliner. 517 feetlong with a mohled breadth of 66 feet and a draft of 30 feetand 12.72:{ tons deadweight. Her 9.000 BHP diesel engineprovides a speed of 18 knols. She is named for tile famousXVllth Century Belgian painter.

The Belgian eargoli.e, has six holds. 18 booms and aheavv derrick of 116 tons and one of 60 tons. All latestequiimlent and fe~.ttures of cargo-handling are present in thene~, vessel.

Hansen 8, "l’idemaml a,’e agenls for the Belgian 1.ine serv-ice inbound from Europe and the Delta Steamship Co. areagents oulbound for west coast of Africa.

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At the height of the evening’s reception, detailed publicityabout the JORDAENS giving her unusual qualifications wasdistributed to guests and tours of the vessel arranged. In leftbackground Port Comnlissiouer W. M. Hatten, center, looksover the material with Port General Manager J. P. Turner,right while Harold Hix, president of the Manchester TerminalCorp., left, looks on.

A plaque showing an aerial view of the Houston Ship Channel,above, was presented to Captain G. Huggenes by the NavigationDistrict and Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce during themaiden voyage reception. From left to right, B. Wayne White,vice president of Hansen & Tidemann, esgents and host forthe party; Cliff Miller of the Jaycees; Captain Huggenes;George Ellion, Belgian Consul General in Houston, and DanClinton, Jr., Jaycee vice president.

PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

No. 42 in A Series

Furmer Hiscus Slar IsInlernafinnal Banker

By LLOYD GREGORYInformation Director

CHARLES CELAYA has a background that eminentlyqualifies him for his present position.

The stalwart, handsome Celaya is vice president andmanager of the international department of the First CityNational Bank of Houston.

Eight years ago, this writer was a member of a good willtrade mission from the Port of Houston to the West Indies.The delegation was headed by the courtly Judge J. S. Brace-well, then chairman of the Houston Port Commission.

We were received in the presidential palace of San l)o-mingo by Dr. Rafael L. Trujillo, dictator, who two years agowas assassinated.

I was standing next to Charles Celaya, and noted Trujillostaring at Celava. Finally, a high official came to Celava.and said :

"El Benefactor thinks he recognizes you. Where has heseen you before?"

I feared we were going to be thrown out nntil Celaya an-swered :

"Tell Doctor Trujillo I was here in 1940 to transferI)olninican assets of the National City Bank of New Yorkto his government."

Celaya’s words were relayed to Trujillo, ~dm acknowledgedCelaya with a smile of recognition and a wave of his hand.

For 11, years, Mr. Celaya traveled through Central Amer-ica, South America, West Indies. and Europe inspecting for-eign branches for the National City Bank of New York. whichis now the First National City Bank nf New York.

He travels widely in his present post, calling on many ac-counts he first cuhivated more than 20 years ago.

He speaks English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.From 1946 through 1949, Mr. Celava set up in many

countries the export division of the Ronrico Corporation ofMiami and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

For a short time, Charles ran his own import-export busi-ness in Brownsville.

The First City National Bank engages in import-exl)orlfinancing; makes direct foreign loans to expedite movementof cargo through the Port of Houston; has correspondingbanks throughout the Free World. This bank is particularbactive in promoting trade between the Port of Houston andl,atin America.

Charles Celava was born in 1902 in Brownsville. the sonof Mr. and Mrs. Joe Celava, St. Charles’ grandfather hadeom, to Texas from Spail]. Charles attended St. Edward’sCollege. and the {niversity of Texas. Ahhough small by pres-ent clay standards, Charles won /he state high school discuschampionship, and for two years won the Southwest Con-ference honors for Clyde Litilefield’s Longhorns.

Mr. Celaya is a member of the Houston Club, World TradeCluh, Houston World Trade association, World Trade com-mittee of the chamber of commerce, and of the famed Bank-ers Club of Mexieo City.

Mr. Celaya married Marizell Taylor, daughter of VolnevW. Taylor, prominent Brownsville attorney. They have thre~,children: Patrieia, 10; Charles Jr., 7: M{chacl ~’ol. 5.

The Celavas live at 521~ S. Post Oak Road. rl’hev are mem-bers of Hal’v Ghost Catholic church in Bellaire.

Men Who Make the Port of Houston

/

CHARLES CELAYA

Hum

AUGUST, 1963 13

Fifteen members of the Japan Ware-house Association on a world tour of portwarehousing facilities paid a special visitto the Port of Houston after hearingmany favorable comments on the portand its operation in other ports. Tourescort Kiyoshi Maeda said that the group

Belgium’s new Consul General GeorgeM. J. Elliott, inspected the Houston ShipChannel aboard the Navigation District’sSAM HOUSTON as part of his familiar-ization program with the Houston areaand is shown here on the bridge of thevessel. In 1962, 50 Belgium ships calledat the Port of Houston, 16 more than in1961. Import trade with Belgiumthrough Houston amounts to more than$22 million while Houston exportsamount to $18 million.

had visited Copenhagen, Hamburg Mar-seilles, Rotterdam, London, Glasgow, NcwYork and Chicago before coming toHouston and were to see the ports ofLos Angeles and San Francisco beforereturning to Japan. Members of tile tourwere Kousuke Baba, Hiroshi Horiki,

Visitors See

The Port of

Houston

ABOARD THE

SAM HOUSTON

Yukihisa Hoshino, team leader; J. Hides-aburo, Port & Harbor Bureau, Ministryof Transportation; Akira Kamijima, Ken-suke KitH, Yoshihiro Koshina, AkiraMitani, Tadashi Sakurai, Jinichiro Tani-guchi, Kunihiro Tsutsni, Hachiro Watai,Toyozo Yamada and Makoto Yamagata.

Jerry L. Thompson, right, a nationalwinner in the essay contest sponsored by

f the Propeller Club of the United States,Port of Houston, is being congratulatedby Fred Strowbridge, chairman of theessay contest committee and presidentelect of the Houston club. Jerry’s prizewas a round trip on board a BloomfieldSteamship Company vessel to ContinentalEurope. All local winners of the contestwere honored on board the SAM HOUS-TON.

Distinguished members of the IndianParliament spent several days in Hous-ton as participants in the Foreign LeaderExchange Program of the U. S. Depart-merit of State and are shown aboard theNavigation District’s inspection vesselSAM HOUSTON. Their Houston program

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was arranged by the Institute of Interna-tional Education. Shown on the stern oftile SAM HOUSTON are: (left to right)Diwan Chand Sharma; Dr. Thomas W.Simons, State Department guide; R. K.Khadilkar, Gopal Swarup Pathak, Mahes-war Nath Kaul, secretary of tile Lower

House of Parliament; Surendra NathDwivedy; Hukam Singh, speaker of theLower House of Parliament; Mrs. VioletAlva, deputy speaker of the Upper Houseof Parliament; and William H. Beech,State Department guide.

PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

The newly christened DILIGENCE hits tile water of the Port of Houston. In thebackground is the Harris County Houston Navigation District’s dry bulk materialsloading and unloading facility.

The second new [ hired States Coast Guard cutter of theReliance class slid into the waters of tile Houston Ship Chan-nel from the Todd Shipyards Corporation Houston Divisionways following christening ceremonies in late July.

Christened the Diligence by Mrs. Donald McGregor Morri-sion, wife of the assistant [2 S. Coast Guard commandant,the 210-foot air-conditioned vessel will be used for searchand rescue duty. She will have a top speed of 18 knots andwill be capable of ranges up to 5000 miles at a normal cruis-ing speed of 15 knots.

Power for the vessel is supplied by a unique arrangementof two 1000 horsepower gas turbines and two 1,500 horse-power diesel engines and it can be operated on any single

engine or oi1 an} combination uf engines. However, theturbine engines can be used at full power immediately uponstarting, giving the vessel fast emergency starts.

Helicopters operating from the after deck will add grcatl>to the ship’s search and rescue effectiveness.

Commanding Officer, designate, of the Diligence is Com-mander Frank C. Schmitz and Key West. Florida, will bethe vessel’s home port.

The Coast Guard plans to huild 23 such cutters in thenext decade. Reliance, the first of the cutters, is nearing com-pletion at Todd’s Houston I)ivision, and within a few wc~,ksa third cutter. Vigilant, will be christened at the same yard.

Mrs. Morrison, left center, receives a bouquet of flowers im-mediately after the christening from her daughter-in-law, Mrs.D. M. M~orrison, Jr., who assisted as Matron of Honor. On theleft is her husband, Vice Admiral Donald McGregor Morrison,Assistant Commandant, U.S.C.G., and on the right, her son,Lt. D. M. Morrison, Jr., U.S.C.G.

Howard Tellepsen, chairman, Navigation and Canal Commis-sioners, Port of Houston and Jerry P. Turner, general managerof the Navigation District, watch as the DII,IGENCE slides downthe ways. Tellepsen was one of the speakers prior to thechristening.

AUGUST, 1963 15.

An impressionistic painting of tile Port of Houston and thecity’s skyline will be hung in tile World Trade Club as amemorial to the late Murray Greenberg, former assistant di-rector of the Houston International Trade and Travel Fairwho died late last year of a heart attack. T. L. Huse, executivedirector of the Fair, holds an artist’s sketch of tile painting forwilich contrihntions are now being solicited. Any funds leftover will go toward a Murray Greenberg Memorial scholarshipto be administered by the Institute of International Education,Huse said. Contributions should be mailed directly to tile Fairoffices, 239 World Trade Building, Houston 2.

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NEWS

IN

VIEWS

Jan P. Engels, consul general of TheNetherlands and dean of Houston’s Con-sular Corps, departed recently with hisfamily for a three months’ leave in hishomeland. He is shown here with Mrs.Engels as they said goodbye to JanBezems, right, vice consul and assistantcommercial counsellor of the consulategeneral, who remains in charge, andAndre Crispin, honorary consul of Bel-gium and president of the HoostonWorld Trade Club.

The International Trade AdvisoryTeam of the Houston World Trade As-sociation held its first meeting in Julyin the World Trade Club. Composed ofmembers of the association from organ-izations representing all aspects of theinternatiunal trade, the advisory teamwas established to help encourage new-comers in the export-import tield. Fromthe left are: George W. Ahvater, teamchairman and general sales manager ofthe Port of Houston; J. P. Harle, presi-dent, J. P. Harle Forwarding Company:Merle R. Croekard, vice-president, Bankof the Southwest; P. E. Kuntz, manager,liner division, Texas Transport andTerminal Company; David R. Taylor,district sales manager, Pan AmericanWorld Airways. J. L. Campbell, impurt-export agent, Southern Pacific LinesLeslie B. Canton, Leslie B. Canton Com-pany; Edward J. Fay, director of theWorld Trade Center and president of theWorld Trade Association; C. M. Mater.deputy collector in charge, U. S. CustomsService, Houston; George Korhn, U. S.Department of Commerce; and GeorgeP. Kosub, terminal manager, CentralFreight Lines, Inc. John Crook, foreigntraltlc manager of the Anderson, Clayton& Company, is team vice chairman.

Houston area cadets of the Texas Maritime Academy ontheir first school cruise are shown descending the gangway ofthe Empire State IV for liberty in Dublin, Ireland. Left frontto top, they are: Donnie Brent Bilancicb, Kemah; John HaroldSeate, Jr., Houston- Jack Harris Smith, Joseph Henry Schmidt,Jr., and Carl Herman Haghmd, all of Galveston; John JamesGallaher, La Porte, and Bennett M. Dodson, Captain, USN,(Bet.), Superintendent of the Academy. After cruising in tileNorth Sea and tire Mediterranean the ship, which is operatedby the New York State Maritime College, will return to NewYork in the latter part of August. Second year Texas MaritimeAcademy students will start school in new quarters at FortCrockett, Galveston, September 15.

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AxNI:,XI+ IXt:I/EASES ill green coffee imports are moving Portof Houslon steadily loward status as second-ranking port intile nation in this commodity. Houston Port Bureau insuresan inland rate structure giving full availability of our greencoffee lo interior roasters, and at the same time assists insecuring maximum rate coverage on coffee processed at theport. Houston’s competitive rate lerritory on green coffee

embraces the entire midwest from Indiana to the Intermoun-taln area, and further rate adjustments now are pending toEvansville, Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha. Green coffeeimports at Port of Houston in 1962 were some 50,000 tonsover tonnage handled five years ago.

REBUTTAL EXHIBITS AND TESTIMONY have been introduced

by Houston and other Gulf ports in the I.C.C. investigationof presently-suspended wheat-flour rates from the Plainsstates to Gulf ports for export. Great Lakes interests arestriving to prove the Gulf rates unlawful fearing they wouldcause a diversion of flour tonnage. The extended Commissionhearings which commenced on May 20 resumed in Chicagoon July 23 for completion of protestants’ case and receipt ofrebuttal testimony.

GULF PORTS’ COMPETITIVE POSITION with other port rangesis sought to be improved under two suhjects now being han-dled by the Port Bureau following our appearance before thesouthern ports railroads in Chicago on July 23. We thereopposed establishment of blocking-bracing charges on importcarload freight on the Gulf, and continued our efforts tolessen the impact of split-delivery rules on rail export trafficfollowing the June 15 elimination of second free delivery intariffs of the rail carriers.

I)ACII"IC CO\ST ()CEAN am[ rail carriers, increasing theircompetitive thrust agaiust Gulf and North Atlantic ports inthe cargo areas of the Midwest, have initiated a number oftranscontinental rail rate proposals now being countered bythe Port Bureau and other of the Gulf ports. It is our purposeto insure Houston’s competitive ability in the overseas tradesfor commodities to or from the mid-continent area, and recentactivity has concerned itself with plate glass, steel, bottles,soybean oil, crtlde rubber, meat and canned goods.

HOUSTON’S PETITION for reconsideration in the Freeport com-plaint case has been filed with the Interstate CommerceCommission, requesting re-examination of evidence adducedin this proceeding, requesting correction of errors and omis-sions in the Division 2 decision, and asking that present ratesbe found lawful and the corn,plaint dismissed.

COTTON INTERESTS at Houston and in the southwest are repre-sented by several recent Port Bureau activities which have(a) won restoration of LCL commodity rates on cotton fromOklahoma to Texas, (b) blocked extension to Paris, Texasof transit privileges on cotton originating Texas South Plainsand New Mexico, (c) secured approval of attractive importrates on baling ties and buckles to Louisiana and Arkansaspoints, (d) secured clarification of propos:-d increases in over-all transit charges as regards outbound shitunents of con-centrated cotton, and (e) are seeking to exclude cotton fromincreased split-delivery charges on rail export traffic.

OTHER CARGO-DEVELOPMENT rate activity with our surfacecarriers includes a request on railroads for attractive exportrates on grader-scrapers from Lubbock; three desirable im-provements in our inland rate coverage on biuder twine;reduced rates on fresh frozen meat to the North Texas areaand to Oklahoma City-Tulsa, all approved; more attraetivecarload rates on heavily-moving imports of steel wire rodsto North Texas; cooperation with interested importers onestablishing tile rates to the Midwest; protecting our competi-tive position on logs from Oklahoma and reduced rail rateson newsprint to San Antonio.

NEw MAILING ADDRESS of Houston Port Bureau, Inc. is 334World Trade Building, Houston, Texas 77002, effectiveimmediately with discontinuance of our former post office box.

INITIAL I.C.C. FINDING that depressed rates on export ricefrom Arkansas should be extended to the port of Mobile hasbeen contested in our filing of exceptions to the report of thebearing examiner. In the proceeding, Mobile by formal com-plaint to the Commission seeks rate equality on the barge-compelled 271/,c (non-shipside) rate from Arkansas pointsto Lake Charles, New Orleans, etc.; our participation is indefense of the charges of rate preference to Houston.

AUGUST, 1963 17

N.Y.h.Two Rich Markets are LinkedBy Largest Oriental Line

The rising sun shimmering through tile N.Y.K. houseflag makes an attractive picture.

Nippon Yusen Kaisha, known toshippers around the world as theN. Y. K. Line, the largest cargo-lineroperator in the Orient, begins its 79thyear of operation on October 1 of thisyear.

Thirty years ago the line started serv-ice to Houston and other Gulf portsfrom the Far East, linking two of theworld’s richest markets and today hasa fleet of 15-knot and 19-knot vesselsserving this trade.

The N. Y. K. Line dates from 1885when the Kyodo Unyu Kaisha (UnionTransport Co.) merged with the YubinKisen Mitsubishi Kaisha (MitsubishiMail Steamship Co.). Prior to that thetwo companies had been in such bittercompetition over shipping routes toKorea and in coastwise service that theJapanese government strongly urged themerger.

Following the successful union, Nip-pon Yusen Kaisha grew dramaticallyand operated services between Japanand Korea, Vladivostok and Shanghaibesides coastal services with 58 vesselsof a total 64,610 tons.

The N. Y. K. increased its servicesin the oceans bordering the easterncoast of Asia in the years 1886 to 1893with new steamship lines operating be-tween Nagasaki and Northern China,

Kobe and Manila and Vladivostok andShanghai.

In 1893 the Line moved out of its"home" waters with the establishmentof a pioneer Japanese steamship servicefrom Japan to Bombay, India.

The next step for N.Y.K. was theestablishment of lines between Japanand Taiwan, Australia, India andEurope.

Service to the United States was in-augurated in 1896 with the arrival ofthe Line’s Miike Maru at Seattle, Wash-ington, to an enthusiastic welcome bycitizens of that port.

A period of consolidation of the newservices followed N.Y.K.’s expansionprogram of the 1890’s. Then, duringWorld War I when the shipping facil-ities of most of the European nationswere tied up, the line added 13 oceanand three coastal lines to its service.

Service to the East coast of the UnitedStates was started in 1916 and by thistime the line owned 97 vessels, aggra-gating 441,481 gross tons and offeredworld wide steamship service.

In 1926, N.Y.K. entered the passen-ger liner service on a large scale by amerger with the Daini Toyo Kisen.Using the experience gained byD. T. K.’s management in years of suc-cessful passenger service in the Pacific,

the expanded N.Y.K. Line built and putinto Pacific service the palatial 17,000gross ton passenger sisterships XsamaMaru, l’atsuta Maru and ChiehivuMaru. Several more vessels were alsobuilt for European service.

The next major step in the company’sexpansion was the start of service toSouth America and the United StatesGulf coast in 1934. However, pre-warshipping in that area did not developas fast as some of the other lines.

At the outbreak of the Pacific Warin December, 1941, the N.Y.K. fleet con-sisted of 133 vessels, totalling 872,161gross tons.

By the time the war was ended inAugust, 1945, N.Y.K. had lost morethan three fourths of this fleet and hadcome under strict government control,first by the Japanese government andthen by the occupation government. Itwas not until 1950 that the Line wasallowed to start rebuilding its fleet.

Subsequently, the overseas shippingactivities began to recover, starting withthe resumption of the Japan-Bangkokregular liner service in January, 1951.

Expansion of the Line was againrapid. In addition to the head office inTokyo, the company soon had domesticoffices in Otaru, Sapporo, Yokohama,Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe and Moji. Over-

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The YAMANASHI MAUl{U, the prideof tile N.Y.K. fleet, is a fast vessel and

modern in every way.

seas contacts were renewed and lineottices opened in New York, Londonand Hongkong. Resident representativeswere established in San Francisco, LosAngeles, Lima, Buenos Aires, Honolulu.Cairo. Seattle, Beirut. Hamburg, Dussel-dorf, Milan(J, Singapore, Bangkok, l)al.las, Calcutta, Bombay, Manila, Sydney.Djakarta and Taipei.

The ocean-going tonnage operated byN.Y.K. Line as of May 1 1963 aggre-gated 1,066,14,4 tons dead weight. Thistotal consisted of 59 owned shipsaggregating 710,613 tons dead weightand 45 chartered or consigned shipswith a total dead weight of 351~,806tons.

The Line owns 15 high speed cargoliners and pride of the fleet is the 31.S.

}amanashi Maru, powered by a 17,511)0B.H.P. supercharged diesel engine thaidrives it at a top speed of 23.6 knots.Her average trip time from Kobe toHamburg is 33 days as compared tothe 36 days normally required by otherhigh speed liners.

An automatic system controls ma-chinery and deck equipment while extraeontrois for the fore and aft cargowinches are provided on the forecastledeck and the poop deck for conveniencein operating when they are used formooring the ship. MacGregor steelhatch covers of the latest design areused as is the Cargoeaire ventilationsystem. The 12,094 dead weight tonvessel is equipped with 20 cargo booms,including two of 20-ton lift capacity.

\Vith the rebnihting of ils th,et, theN.5.K. Line returned to the (;ulf ofMexico in 1953. Soon the house ttag ofthree horizontal white stripes alternatingwith two red stripes was tlying in suchCaribbean ports as La Guaira. Kingston.Maraeaibo, Cartagena, and Panama andat the United States Gulf ports of Hous-ton and New Orleans.

By 1958, the Line’s Gulf-Latin Amer-ican business had increased to the pointwhere it became necessary to divide theexisting service into two lines, namely.the Japan-Latin American and Carrib-bean Sea Line and the Japan-Gulf ofMexico Line.

Houston’s dominant role in the Japantrade out of the Gulf with its shipmentsof petrochemicals and cotton and im-portations of steel, automobiles and gen-eral merchandise resulted in N.Y.K.’sselecting the Port as headquarters for itsGulf operations.

In 1960 it established a direct Tokyo-Houston run of 26 days and began (Ji~-

erations with a fleet of 15-knot and 19-knot vessels. Dalton Steamship Corpo-ration, general agents for N.Y.K. in theGulf, are headquarters for the lane’sGulf operations with its Houston officecontrolling all traffic from Tampa toBrownsville and intermittent ports.

Ships in the Japan-Gulf of MexicoLine are the Atami :ltaru, Akagi Maru,Hozui Maru. Eishin Maru and also call-ing at Houston in lhls service are the19-knot ships the New York Maru (seefront cover), and Yokohama Maru.

.At the time the new direct service t,,

Cotton is loaded at the Port of Houstonfor the spinning mills of Japan.

The speed of N.Y.K. ships betweentile Far East and U. S. Gulf ports ispointed up in this poster whiehI. Kannauchi, left, and J. H. I)ahon areadmiring. This picture was made in1960, when a new service wasinaugurated.

lh~’ (;ulf was inaugurated in 1960, withHouston first port of call, 1. Kannauehi,then general manager of N.Y.K. in NewYork, came to Houston for the occasionand a meeting with J. H. Dalton, presi-dent of the Dalton operation. (see cut)

Although the company speaks withpride of its 26 day transit time fromJapan to Houston, N.Y.K. otficials areworking on plans to place even fasterships on the important but highly com-petitive Gulf of Mexico run.

Nippon Yuscn Kaisha averages 21sailings a year from the Gulf. The Linehas 13 other prim.ipal regular servicesfrtml Japan, including a monthly west-bound round-the-world service, servicesto all major Far East ports, services toIndia. Australia, both coasts of Africa.both coasts of South America. toEurolw, and the United Slates. The mostactive route is }mlween Japan and the[7.S. East Coast with twenty-eight sail-ings per year.

I)oli(T matters are under the (tircctionof a board of directors headed bv Chair-man Shinsuke Asao. Active managementof the company is in the hands of Tada-yasu Kodama, president, who directs thecompany’s far-thing a,.ti~ities from theTokyo home office.

The contpany operates with about 800people on shore and with more than2.000 employees at sea.

[n January, 1957, the company rc-ported a capital inw’stmcnt of 11,400million yen. In the fiscal year fromhpril. 1962 to March, 1963, 5~.Y.K. didalmost $9~ million worth of businesswith a net profit before delnceiation ofjust under $14 million.

2O

The AKAGI MARU, above,speeding across the Gulf of Mexico,is making a turn to enter theHouston Ship Channel.

Fountains in the courtyard adda decorative effect to the N.Y.K.home ottiee building in Tokyo.

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Two of the newest ships of the Lykes Brothers SteamshipCo. called at the Port of Houston recently and were givenmaiden voyage plaques by tile Navigation District and theHouston Junior Chamber of Commerce to honor the event. Theships, the S.S. SHELDON LYKES and the S.S. ADABELLELYKES, were built at Bahimure, Maryland, and are of theLykes C2-LM-7 ,’lass. The last of three groups of ships built atthe Maryland yards, the SHELTON and the ADABELLE andtheir two sister ships under construction, the CHARLOTTELYKES and the MAYO I,YKES, have been re-arranged in-ternally to eliminate passenger space and to increase betweendeck cargo ~pace. The two previous groups of ships have space

Humble ContractsFor Bigger Tanker

Newl)ort News Shil~buildi]]g and DryDock Compat]y of Newport News, Vir-ginia, was the successful bidder andwill build Humbh, Oil & Refining Com-pany’s 66,700 deadweight ton tanker,Joseph Andreae, general manager ofHumble’s marine division, announced.

Keel laying of the ship is scheduledfor January, 1961:. It will be launchedin October of that year and delivered toHumt]lc in December.

The shet] will he the largest in theHumbh~ fleet and will be the third larg-est tanker trader the U.S. flag. Largesttankers in the present Humble fleet arethe 1.8,800 deadweight lorl l~]sso }~ostotl

for twelve passengers. All living and operational areas in tin,new ships are air conditioned and modern decorative themeis used throughout. At left, Captain A. B. Courtney of theSHELDON LYKES, center, receives the Port of Houston maid-en voyage plaque from Junior Chamber of Commerce repre-sentatives D. V. Flores, left, and Dan Clinton. Within a week oftaking delivery of the ADARELLE LYKES from the ship-builder, Captain William Esposito, center, in the photo at tln~right, and First Mate F. V. Borup, left, received the ships firstmaiden voyage plaque from Houston Junior Chamber of Com-merce Representative Dale Thompson.

and Esst] Bahimore which entered ser~.-ice in 1960.

Humhle’s decision Io build a ta]tkerof this size. said Mr. Andreae, "is proofof our belief that tankers can still becompetitive with other forms of trans-potation it] moving crude oil and prod-

ucls.’" Hmnl]h, o~t]s the largest tt,]]l]ageof privately-owned tankers operatingut]der the [.S. /tag.

The tankt’r ~ill be 800 feet long and116 feel ~ide. will have a draft of 1,0feet and a cargo lank capacity of 576:000 barre]s.

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REGULAR DIRECT SERVICE FROMGULF PORTS TOADEN - BOMBAY ¯ COCHIN ¯ MADRAS ¯ CALCUTIA

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GULF AGENTSNEW ORLEANS ¯ Abaunza Steamship Agency Corp. ̄ 540 International Trade Mart ̄ JA 2-6101HOUSTON ¯ gbaunza Steamship Agency Corp. ̄ 203 Marine Building ¯ CApitol 2-9601GALVESTON ¯ Abaunza Steamship Agency Corp. * 512 U. S. National Bank BidE. * SOuthfield 5-9463MOBILE Norton, Lilly g Company. Inc. ¯ Marine Bulk Ore Terminal ̄ HEmlock 3-]536

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

fast and frequent,,,

Deppe Li, n~~Belgian Linebetween the Gtzl[ and North Europe

idemann, Inc./Steamship Agents All Cotton Ports and Markets

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In other cities contact Lykes or Grace

*Southbound New Orleans/C.Z. cargo subiect to special Booking arrangements

N. Y. K. LINETwice Monthly Service To

JAPANESE PORTS

DALTON STEAMSHIPCORP.Gulf General Agents

Cable Address: "Dalship"

Offices InHouston ¯ Galveston ¯ Beaumont ̄ Port Arthur ¯ Dallas ¯ New

Orleans ¯ Memphis ̄ Mobile

The Waterman Steamship Company’s TOPA TOPA was"cover girl" on the June issue of the Port of Houston Maga-zine and when she returned to her berth at City Dock 22 lastmonth her skipper, Capt. S. T. Perkins, received a laminatedplaque of the cover photo. Here Waterman District ManagerR. B. Wilkens, Jr., right, presents the plaque on the vessel’sbridge.

Fraternity Installs OfficersNational President Robert Blocki of Chicago installed tile

new officers for Delta Nu Alpha transportation fraternity ata special meeting in the World Trade Club.

The officers are Trmnan Giffin, president; Jack Brad-shaw and Norman Starnes, vice presidents; Bill Keele. secre-tary, and Truman Stracener. treasurer.

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Tons and tons of steel--bars, pipes, tubes, beams--pilehigh on City Dock 16 while other tons go into waiting trucksand rail cars from the Norwegian vessel GYDA. The NorgeLine ship brought in a record 11,800 long tons of steel inmid-July along with 80 automobiles and several hundred casesof whiskey. As many as four locomotive cranes plus the Navi-gation District’s big gantry crane worked the vessel for morethan a week as it unloaded its weighty cargo. In photo belowfour of the cranes are shown along with trucks, rail cars andsteel and at right two of the cranes are working the forwardholds, discharging rods. The steel was principally from WestGermany, Belgium and France and the majority of it loadedat Antwerp. Lone Star Shipping Co. are agents for the line.

SINCE 1914

Export and Domestic Crating

OFFICE MOVING AND STORING SPECIALISTS

TRANSFER & STORAGE CO.812-20 Live Oak St. Phone FA 3-2323

South Africa?

DIRECT... FAST... DEPENDABLESERVICE TO BUILD BETTERBUSINESS FOR SHIPPERS AND CONSIGNEES

Regular Sailings from Houston, Galveston, NewOrleans, Savannah, Charleston, Baltimore,Philadelphia and New York.Direct To Capetown, Port Elizabeth, East London,Durban, Lourenco Marques and Beira.AGENTS AT: Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, S. C., Cleveland, Detroit,Jacksonville, Fla., Los Angeles, Newport News, Norfolk, PanamaCity, ~ensacola, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Savannah,Seattle, Tampa, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, B. C.GULF AGENT: Hansen & Tidemann, Inc.Corpus Christi, Dallas, Galveston, Houston, Memphis, Mobile,New Orleans, Sabine District.

South African Marine Corporation (N. Y.)2 Broadway ̄ DI 4-8940 ¯ New York 4, N. Y.

CHICAGO OFFICE: 327 South La Salle Street

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OfficesGALVESTON--NEW ORLEANS--DALLAS--MEMPHIS

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General Agents for North America and the CaribbeanBLACK DIAMOND S/S CO., 2 BROADWAY, N. Y.

AUGUST, 1963 23

E. S. Binnings, Inc.Steamship Agents

1114 TEXAS AVE. BLDG.Telephone: CApitol 5-0531

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Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, PeruPanama via Cristobal

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U.S. GULF/FAR JOINT SERVICEEAST SERVICE F .... ley & Eger, asia, Norway

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OE,E,A~ AGENTS: FEARNLEY & EGER, INC.39 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y. DI. 4-3770

Agents: BIEHL & COMPANYSixth Floor, WORLD TRADE BLDG., HOUSTON, TEXAS, CApitol 2-9961

Forty tons of oil well drilling equip-ment is shown on the new NavigationDistrict Wharf 23 ready to be hoistedaboard ship. This slush pump trailer wasmanufactured by Continental EmscoSupply Co. and was destined for servicein the drilling operations of Keir-CawderArrow Drilling in Tripoli. Forwardingarrangements for the 54 ft. by 15 ft. by10 ft. high trailer were handled by Jud-son Sheldon International Corporation.

Second CunardShip Launched

The second Cunard freight launchingwithin a month took place on July 18,when tile cargo vessel PARTHIA wentdown the slipway at the Dundee, Scot-land shipyard of the Caledon Shil,build-ing and Engineering Company.

PARTHIA is the second of four newcargo vessels which are being built bvthe l)undee corapany and the SonthShields firm of John Readhead & SonsLimited. MEDIA was launched at SouthShields on June 20.

All four of the new Cunard cargoliners are similar in design with a dead-weight of 7,000 tons. After a carefulstudy of all the factors involved. Cunardexperts are convinced that this is theoptimum size for cargo vessels operat-ing a regular scheduled service betweenU.K. ports and New York under l,resentday conditions.

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LONGHORNTRANSFER SERVICE, INC.

13 Years Serving the Port of Houston7112 Avenue C. WA 6-2661

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