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The Port of Houston MagazineVolume 22, Number 2

The CoverThe brightly colored hull of the COL UMBUS CALIFORNIA attracted many eyes recently at the Port ofHouston. For an interesting story about this new container serwce see Page 12.

Inside This IssueShip Channel Emergencies Handled By Experts: Fire is a fright-ening word along the Houston Ship Channel, but one of the largest groups

of specialized fire fighters stands on the alert .................................... 8

February, 1978

Local Shippers Are Honored: To keep an important group abreast of

the fast-moving developments at the Port of Houston .......................... 1O

The Houston Port Bureau Reports: Government red tape is beingchallenged by the Bureau in a new case of jurisdiction ..........................

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New Container Ships Going ’Down Under:’ Trade with Australiaand New Zealand will improve as this new service gets moving ................... 12Dallas Shippers Hear About Port of Houston: Shippers in Big D tooktime out from discussing the Super Bowl to discuss the Super Port ................ 14Dates Are Dates: There are many kinds of dates, but the dates that go

into confections were given special treatment here .............................17

Port of Houston Directory: Take a look at the expanded directory in

this issue and see if it can help make your life a little more pleasant ............... 23

FENTRESS BRACEWELL. ChairmanW.D. HADEN. I1. CommissionerMRS. MARCELLA D. PERRY CommissionerPAUL DROZAK. CommissionerJOHN H. GARRETT. CommissionerGEORGE W. ALTVATER. Executive DirectorRICHARD P. LEACH General ManagerC.F. BULLOCK. Associate General ManagerF. WILLIAM COLBURN, CounselMICHAEL SCORCIO..Executive Secretary

to the Port CommisstonC.A. ROUSSER, JR., Director of Trade

DevelopmentLEON UTTERBACK. Eastern Sales ManagerJACK WOJEWNIK, Asst. Eastern Sales Mgr.ARMANDO WATERLAND. Midwestern

Sales ManagerBILL COOK. Western Sales ManagerSTEPHEN TURNER. Sales Representative

Port Commissioners and StaffTED SUMERLIN, Advertising ManagerJERRY BROWN. Assistant Advertising ManagerMIDDY RANDERSON. Publicity ManagerJ.K. HENDERSON. ControllerNORMAN E. HUENI. Chief EngineerDAVID P. WALSH. Assistant Chief EngineerALTON B. LANDRY. PersonnelManager and

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

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

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Ship ChannelEmergencies A reHandled By Experts

Mutual aid organizations are a prime example of in-dividual companies and their safety professionals poolingresources and skills to provide substantial benefits to the in-dustrial community and the general public.

A mutual aid organization usually consists of a group ofindustrial locations and often governmental agencies. Mem-bers join together under Civil Defense to provide emergencyassistance to each other in the event of a disaster which ex-ceeds their individual capabilities.

The concept of such organizations is not new, and todaythere are dozens of such cooperatives across the UnitedStates. The Channel Industries Mutual Aid organization(CIMA) in the Greater Houston area is one of the oldest andlargest mutual aid cooperatives in this country.

CIMA was formed in 1955 by a group of safetyprofessionals from 16 companies along the Houston ShipChannel. Founders of the organization remembered the1947 Texas City disaster in which the explosion of a shipresulted in more than 600 deaths and millions of dollars inproperty damage. They knew all too well the need fordisaster preplanning and cooperative assistance efforts.

Since C1MA was founded, the Houston Ship Channelarea has grown into the nation’s leading oil refining andpetrochemical center. CIMA has grown too, and today ithas 57 members. Among them are 51 industrial locations(representing all the major Ship Channel plants), onerailroad, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Houston Fire Depar-tment and the Port of Houston Authority. ’~

CIMA represents one of the largest collections ofpetroleum and petro-chemical fire fighting expertise andequipment in the world. It lists among resources availableduring emergencies: 25 fire trucks, two fire boats, numerous

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pieces of specialized equipment, large supplies of drypowder and chemical foam extinguishment agents, eightambulances, many miles of hose and hundreds of trainedindustrial fire fighters including some of the mostknowledgeable safety professionals in the industry.

CIMA and other mutual aid cooperatives are built on theconcept that individual member organizations should beprepared to deal with emergency situations. Member com-panies are familiar with the particular hazards of theiroperations and products and provide for their own protec-tion.

There is, however, no such thing as an absolute guaranteeagainst an emergency that exceeds the capabilities of a singlemember, and CIMA employs the concept of mutual aidwhen the unpredictable occurs. Individual members standready to assist one another in the event they are needed.

In addition, mutual aid organizations in the same ,regionmaintain informal liaison with one another. This creates asort of cooperative of cooperatives increasing theavailability of emergency aid, which usually comes in theform of highly specialized equipment or material, when it isneeded. CIMA maintains contact with mutual aidcooperatives in the Texas City, Corpus Christi andBeaumont-Por~ Neches area.

Before being accepted into CIMA, an organization mustpass an inspection by a team of CIMA experts. This com-mittee checks prospective members’ emergency plans,equipment, and personnel training programs.

CIMA maintains a special radio network on an emergencyfrequency assigned to Civil Defense by the Federal Com-munications Commission. Each member must have accessto the CIMA radio network. Daily radio system drills are

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held with each station responding to ensure properoperation of the system. Weather reports are issued dailyover the network, and special weather reports are issuedwhenever necessary, such as during a hurricane threat.

CIMA assistance is not called into action very often, butwhen it is, it frequently faces situtations which would be un-familiar to most municipal firemen. In the last year, CIMAhas helped member organizations cope with an ethylenepipeline rupture and fire, a crude oil storage tank fire causedby lightning, and a metal alkyls fire at a chemical plant.

The alkyls fire was an example of how industrial firefighting expertise enabled a tense situation to be broughtunder control relatively quickly. Had the industrial firefighters not known that water would have spread the alkylsfire, the situation could have become worse. As it was, thechemical plant’s fire brigade, with CIMA assistance, useddry powder to quickly’ contain the fire.

To insure that fire brigades maintain their expertise, plantshold regular drills. Many CIMA members also send theirfire fighters to the noted Texas A&M Industrial FireFighting School. Many of the safety professionals who areactive in CIMA are also instructors at that school, sup-plementing A&M’s fulltime staff of 18 fire fighting instruc-tors.

Many CIMA member companies also contract directlywith the fire fighting school for special two or three daytraining sessions for their employees. One company has sentmore than 700 employees to A&M for training.

CIMA maintains three teams of experts in refinery,

~etrochemical and dry cargo fires. When a CIMArganization experiences and emergency, the appropriate

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team of specialists reports to the scene to provide assistanceupon request.

These experts do not wait for a request for CIMA aid, butgo to the scene whenever an emergency occurs. Uponarrival, they stand by and make themselves available to ad-vise the stricken location. They will even assume commandof the fire fighting activity if asked to do so. However,ultimate control of the situation remains with the affectedlocation at all times.

Each year CIMA conducts an annual drill to test theresponse to a mock disaster. A prearranged call for assistan-ce goes out over the radio network, and memberorganizations respond with manpower and equipment.Upon arrival at the location of requested aid, CIMArepresentatives participate in or observe a demonstration offire fighting techniques.

Fire fighting teams from various member organizationsillustrate the proper techniques for potential industrial fires.The drills are interesting events often including such featuresas helicopter rescues, fire boat demonstrations and the ex-tinguishment of numerous large fires under realistic con-ditions.

Mutual aid organizations such as CIMA also result in asubstantial savings to tax payers. The fire protectionprovided by the individual companies represents large in-vestments in equipment and training. It would be very ex-pensive for local municipal fire protection agencies toprovide the facilities and training needed to equal theprotection provided by CIMA members.

Success of this system of industrial self protection andmutual aid for large emergencies is a tribute to the skill anddedication of the safety professionals who make it work.

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Herb Warren, Comet Rice Mills Inc.: A.H. Sheffield and C.E. Mont-gomery, Maxwell House Division of General Foods, and C.E. Bullock,Port Authority Associate General Manager.

Local Shippers AreHonored By Port

The Port of Houston Authority recently sponsored aluncheon at the World Trade Club to honor various com-panies shipping through the Port. Among the guests wereexecutives of rice and coffee companies, auto importers andhide shippers. The Authority gives such luncheonsperiodically to thank local shippers for their continued sup-port of the nation’s third largest seaport. Photos on thispage are of some of the guests attending. They are identifiedfrom left to right.

W.G. Eckman and Edwin L. Maxcy, Maxwell House Division of GeneralFoods; J.K. Henderson, Port Authority Controller, and Felton Overbey,Commodity Credit Corporation.

Tommy Barnes, Port Authority Coffee Supervisor; Daniel E. Wiggins,Comet Rice Mills: Lloyd C. Philips, Riviana Foods, and Fred Dinges, PortAuthority Market analyst.

Stephen Turner, Port Authority Sales Representative; J.M. Fuentes andWilliam Carey, Southwestern Trading; Frank J. Suchecki, Hitex Corp.,and Buddy Reasoner, Mazda Motors of America Inc.

Monroe Bean, Port Authority Manager of Storage Warehouses: Capt.Richard M. Perry, F.W. Hartmann and Co. of New York; E.W. Luedke,Comet Rice Mills Inc., and George Strange, Houston Port Bureau.

W.R. Cook, Port Authority Western Sales Manager; Lee Adams andAlbin AJbrecht, American Rice Inc., and John E. Garcia, Comet Rice MillsInc.

Gene Reinertsen, Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A.; Ed Hearon, AutoConvoy Co.; A.D. Abramson, Adaco Ltd.; G.C. Horton, Gulf StatesToyota Inc., and Joe Barnhart, Auto Convoy Co.

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RAILROADS PROPOSE INCREASE UNDER PLAN II 1/2:The rail carrier members of the Southwestern Freight Bureauhave proposed an increase of 7 % for traffic moving insteamship containers between all points in SWL territory,between SWL territory and WTL territory and IRC territory.Carriers claim the increase is necessary because of excessivehandling of empty water containers. This application is SWLB-79-72.

PORT BUREAU INVOLVED IN DISPUTE: The HoustonPort Bureau has become involved in a case concerningregulatory rivalry--whether the Interstate CommerceCommission shall regulate through land-water rates betweenthe mainland and Puerto Rico or should the ICC and theFederal Maritime Commission regulate the rates. Currentlyboth agencies have jurisdiction over their own areas, i.e., theICC over the land portion of rates filed with it by variouscarriers and the FMC over the sea portion of rates filed bycarriers. The Port Bureau representing the Port of HoustonAuthority and the Port of Freeport, is included in amemorandum of law filed by the State of Texas, in support ofthe Federal Maritime Commission’s (FMC) order to showcause, directed against Trailer Marine Transport Corporation(TMT) pursuant, to and in accord with the terms of theFederal Maritime Commission order, served December 16,1977, which ordered TMT to file copies of its tariff with theFMC; or be found in violation of the 1916 Shipping Act andthe Intercoastal Shipping Act of 1933. While the State ofTexas is not directly involved in the controversy concerningTMT and the FMC, since service involved is only betweenJacksonville-Miami, Florida and Puerto Rico, it is involved inthe issue of regulatory jurisdiction and policy with respect tointermodal service by rail-water joint rates in the disclosure ofthe exact breakdown of such rates by the ocean carrier.TMT’s joint service is under joint jurisdiction of both theFederal Maritime Commission and the Interstate CommerceCommission; and we believe that respondent violates Section2 of the Intercoastal Shipping Act of 1933 (ISA, as amended)in conducting such service without the FMC tariff. The FMCshould find the jurisdiction of the ICC is not exclusive as to theservice performed by TMT; but TMT should be found to be inviolation of Section 2 of the Intercoastal Shipping Act of1933~ and a tariff should also be placed on file with the FMCwith full disclosure of the ocean carrier’s rate.

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filed by the Eastern Railroads, and a group of nine otherrailroads, with the Interstate Commerce Commission inresponse to an ICC notice of proposed rule making, No.36584, Petition Seeking Institution of Rule Making to amend49 CFR Part 1301, the railroads urged adoption of proposedjoint rate rules that would give the railroads blanket fourthsection relief for so-called mini-bridge operations. In addition,the railroads opposed the Houston Port Bureau proposalwhich would require railroads themselves to file applicationfor fourth section relief instead of the steamship lines. TheEastern lines in their support of this blanket relief claimed that"a great and needless burden" is placed on the Commissionand water carriers due to the fourth section applications.Additionally, the rails suggested that the ICC change this ruleto make sure that any rail divisions that had been approved,prior to the final consideration of the order, would not beconsidered "rates" within the meaning of the fourth section.The National Association of Port Authorities and theInternational Longshoremen’s Association have taken anopposite stand and requested that the ICC require therailroads to file fourth section applications, and opposedblanket relief for the railroads. The ports claimed that thisblanket relief would allow the steamship carriers, who are notnormally subject to ICC jurisdiction, to publish rates which arenot in conformity with the provisions of Section 4 of theInterstate Commerce Act.

SAFE CONTAINER ACT BECOMES LAW: With thesigning of the International Safe Container Act, HR 8159, byPresident Carter, it now becomes law (Public Law No. 95-208), and implements uniform structural standards passed bythe International Convention for Safe Containers which willinsure safe unloading and handling of containers. This meansthat all containers built after September 6, 1976 must meetthese standards and containers built prior to this date will havefive years to meet the new standards.

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The COLUMBUS AUSTRALIA sails out of the harbor at Sydney.

New Container ShipsGoing ’Down Under’

In the steadily increasing Australia/New Zealand trade, Houston is a portwhose time has come, according toColumbus Line officials.

"We began calling at Houston,"says Marco Pacella, the Line’sAssistant Vice President for Marketingand Sales, "because there was ademonstrated demand for totallycommitted service between the SouthPacific and the industries and marketsserved by the Port."

Columbus Line’s recent $90 millioninvestment in new vessels and relatedequipment made possible the assign-ment of the 380-TEU capacity COLUM-BUS CANADA and COLUMBUS.CALIFORNIA and the 420-TEUcapacity COLUMBUS CAPRICORNto Houston last April.

"This is a natural port," Mr. Pacellaclaims, "not for the industrializedgreater Houston area but for the entireTexas coastal plain, Oklahoma andArkansas. It is possibly the only

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economic port for land-locked pointsas far north as Iowa and as far west asthe continental divide."

The new Columbus Line fleet, withthe services of Kerr Steamship Com-pany, links Houston with Australia,and New Zealand on one of the longestwater routes in the world.

Trade on this route is based on abalanced exchange of manufacturedand consumer goods from the U.S. andagricultural products and mineralresources from Australia and NewZealand. Columbus Line officialsbelieve that this balance tends to main-tain itself despite fluctuations withinthe international economy since thethree nations represented enjoy similarlifestyles coupled with complementarycargoes and markets.

As a result, the incentive is strongfor Australia and New Zealand to con-centrate on the expansion of exportmarkets for raw materials and semiand fully mhnufactured goods whilecontinuing to import capital goods

generally essential to the growth oftheir industries and economies.

Three new fully-containerized vesselsrecently have been ordered for Colum-bus Line’s U.S. Gulf coast service,reflecting the company’s long-termcommitment to the trade between thatregion and Australia/New Zealand,Executive Vice President, Horst F.Ullmann announced.

The three new ships, to be deliveredin 1979, will replace the three chartervessels currently employed. Thenewbuildings have been ordered byColumbus’ principal, Hamburg Sud,from A.G. Weser Seebeckwerft inBremerhaven, West Germany.

Each new ship will carry a maximumof 628 TEUs in seven tiers under-deck,of which 486 will be refrigerated,greatly increasing the present 387 TEUcapacity, which includes 147 reefers.

Columbus Line was formed in 1957to trade between the East Coast ofNorth America and South America,with some frozen meat also being

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carried between New Zealand and theWest Coast of the United States.

In the mid 1960’s Columbus Linemade an exclusive commitment to theNorth America/Australia/New Zealandtrade, carrying lamb, beef and producenorthbound and machinery andmanufactured goods southbound,from both the East and West coasts ofthe United States and Canada.

In 197 l, commerce on theAustralia/New Zealand route wasrevolutionized when Columbus Linebecame the first completely con-tainerized carrier, with a full 40 percentof capacity devoted to reefers. In ad-dition to speed and ease of handling,the revolution turned a route charac-terized by dramatic changes in climateand a high proportion of perishablecargoes into a reliable and economicresource for the markets and industriesof North America.

For instance, the introduction ofrefrigerated containers cut meatspoilage on the route by 98 per centwithin a year and all but eliminatedsurplus orders by brokers attemptingto offset assumed losses. Today, theU.S. is the world’s largest consumer ofAustralian beef and one of the largest:importers of New Zealand lamb.

Columbus Line also uses reefers toaccomplish the cold treatment needediin quarantine of fresh fruits requiredunder USDA insect control programs.Both the voyage and the computer-regulated cold treatment are carriedout simultaneously, almost halving thetime it would normally take warehousetreated cargoes to reach retail level.

Shown here is the engine room of theCOLUMBUS CALIFORNIA which controlsmultiple temperatures aboard the vessel.

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Containers being loaded at the Port of Houston aboard the COLUMBUS CALIFORNIA.

One prior casualty of the Australia/New Zealand container revolutin was"sweat damage" to canned goods, atraditional result of water vapor con-densation in the boxes during climatechanges on the route.

Within ten months after ColumbusLine’s 1973 introduction of a

dehumidification program for cannedgoods in containers, the number of in-surance claims for "sweat damage"dropped by 27 percent and has con-tinued to drop steadily for the pastfour years. The dollar value of theseclaims dropped by a dramatic 95 per-cent. Again, the net result was areliable supply of immediatelymarketable competitive goods.

As Australian and New Zealandproducts continue to gain noticeablylarger market shares in North America,and as the Southwestern quadrant ofthe U.S. gains in commercialsignificance, Houston is expected tobecome an increasingly vital gatewayon this route.

According to Mr. Pacella, "Withregularly scheduled fully containerizedinbound and outbound service, the im-pact of Houston on the NorthAmerica / Australia / New Zealand tradecan only be great."

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Ernie Fortin, U.S. Steel; Henry Fulcher, Sitco Lumber; W.C. McAfee,Sedco, Inc.; John Rhea, Sedco, Inc., and William Peacock Jr., HoustonExport Crating Co., Inc.

Dallas Shippers HearA bout Port of HoustonAlthough Dallas shippers--and most everyone else in Big

D--were still discussing the Super Bowl, they called time outto hear Director of Trade Development C.A. Rousserdescribe the many improvements that have been made at thePort of Houston in recent months. The special luncheon washeld at the Fairmont Hotel. Also representing the Port ofHouston were Bill Cook, Midwestern Sales Manager, andSteve Turner, Houston Sales Representative.

Robert A. Murzin, Houston Export Crating Co., Inc.; Stephen P.Wallace, World Trade Services, Inc.; Sabine Rietz, AIItransport and TimF. Young, Waterman Steamship Corp.

Lon C. Hileman, Norton, Lilly & Co., Inc.: Jaime E. Varas, Darrell J.Sekin & Co., Inc.; Tom Redden, Bruce I. Galbraith; Goro Hibino,Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. and Ray L. Reedy, Sumitomo ShojiAmerica, Inc.

John"M. West, Kerr Steamship Co., Inc.; William L. Bliss, L.E. Copper-smith Inc.; Jay Yarter, E.S. Binnings, Inc., and Carl Adams, Kerr Steam-ship Co., Inc.

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Jack Behrends, Texas Refinery Corp.; Esperanza Urquidi, TexasRefinery Corp.; Lisa Najera, Texas Refinery Corp., and Orbey P. Edge,Harrington & Co., Inc.

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Jay Yarter, E S. Binnings, Inc.; Sabine Rietz, Alltransport; Jim Briger,Sea-Land, and Barclay Terhune, Alltransport.

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