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PORT OF HOUSTONWe want the delegates to the Associated Traffic Clubs of

America Convention here in September to see the progress onour three new wharves, sheds and grain elevator expansion.

This is just part of the huge construction program underwayat the Gulf’s busiest port which will be host to the ATC Septem-ber 16, 17, 18, and 19.

Traffic leaders from all over the nation will view at first handthe millions of dollars of new wharves and sheds already com-pleted, the new and finest bulk-handling plant in the West Gulf,the dramatically striking new World Trade Building in the heartof downtown.

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

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Official Publication

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Volume 4 August, 1962 Number 8

Con[entsNew Age of Shipping Opens With N.S. Savannah ........................ 9

He’s Had Notable Career In Ocean Shipping ..................... 11

News In Views Around The Port of Houston ................... 12

Indian Journalists Visit Houston .......................... 14

The Houston Port Bureau Reports ............................. 15

Holland-America Line Observes 50 Years In The Gulf ..................... 16

British Commercial Service Stimulates Business Relations ................ 19

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

General Cargo Ships Sailing From The Port of Houston ................. 32

THE COVER

One of the Holland-America Line’s newest ships, the GAASTERDYK is shown inthe North Sea during her trial run before going into the Gulf trade. This com-pany is celebrating 50 years in the Gulf this month and the Port of HoustonMagazine is happy to tell you about it on Page 16.

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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Nation’s First

Vessel To Be

Powered By

Atomic Energy

Expected To Set

Many Records

Joseph E. Davies proudlydisplays model of theSavannah

UNITEH STATES HPENS NEW ABE HF SHIPPIM;AS N.S. SAVANNAH EHMPLETES TRIAL RUNS

THE STEAMSHII’ SAVANNAt[ ~eighed anchor and steamed

out of Savannah harbor, her namesake port, on May 22,1819.

Twenty-nine days and eleven hours later she arrived inLiverpool, England to complete the first Atlantic crossing bya steamship.

Exactly 139 years later to the day, Americans laid the keelon another ship named the SAI/ANNAII--the world’s firstnuclear powered merchant vessel.

By June of 1962, the new SAKANNAH had successfullyeompleted her builder’s trial runs and was undergoing m~ net’ssea trials off the Virginia coast.

The old SS S.4I/ANN/IH wouht look like a row boat next toits atomic age counterpart and, if still in existence, wouldmake but a small amount of the nuclear ship’s cargo.

The old ship was 98 feet long and weighed 320 tons; thenuclear SAKA3/N;4H is 595 feet long and ~ill carry up to 10~-000 tons of dry cargo in addition to 60 passengers.

The old SAVANNAII carried only enough wood and coalfor 89 hours steaming time and of necessity had to be riggedfor sailing as well.

The modern ship ~ill sail for three and a half years on onesmall core of uranium to cover approximately 300.000 nauti-cal miles without refueling.

The nuclear SAFANNAH’s ~ell-publicized first voyage willcarry her from the East Coast to the ~orld’s Fair in Seattle.Wash i u gIo n.

It will begin with her sailing into her namesake port some-time this summer. From there she will make her maidenvoyage to New York City and remain there brieflv for publicinspection.

Then she ~ill make her coastwise voyage to Seattle with nodefinite stops between planned as yet.

AUGUST, 1962

On, or just after, the Seattle trip shr will come to (;ahcs-ton’s Todd Shipyard Corporation facility ~hich has beendesignated the central servicing site for the ship by the govern-ment agenry responsible, the Maritime Administration of theU. S. Department of Commerce.

States Marine Lines, world-wide operating steamship firm.has been named the SA1/ANNAII’s general agents by theMaritime Administration and the U. S. Atomic Energy Con>mission, both of which by means of a joint eommittee, haveplanned the ship’s construction and operation.

States Marine Lines’ Houston representative. Joseph E.Davies, vice president-manager of Slates Marine-lsthmial~Agency, Inc.; the Port of Houston’s Port (2ommission (.’hair-man Hm~ard Tellepsen and many local gmernment, civicand business leaders are presently working Io bring theSAV4NNMI soon to this port city of one and a quarter mil-lion peoph:.

It is hoped by them that she ~ill do(’k here at the nation’ssecond largest port on her ~ay to Seatth. or as s(~,,n thrreafteras possible.

Arrangements are lnlderway by the ~.laritime A(hniuistra-tion for the SAVANNAII to visit foreign l)orts later this yearor in early 1963.

In this way she ~ill help to fulfill one of her many pur-l)oses, in this instance, a practical d(’n, mstratiou in Ihe peace-ful uses of atomic energy to Ihe peoph,s of the worhl.

The long awaited trip to foreign ports has been ~ell publi-cized and she will be seen by millions of people on her arrival.

What hal)peued to the old SA17,4NNAlf on its historicvoyage is not ]ikcly when today’s S~41"~4N,\’.41t firsl sailsabroad.

The London Times reported June 30, ]g19, thus:"The ’Sdl/ANNAH’, a steam xesscl, recently ar,:ived at

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Liverpool from America--the first vessel of the kind whichever crossed the Atlantic--was chased the whole day off thecoast of Ireland by the ’Kite,’ revenue cruiser on the Corkstation, which mistook her for a ship on fire."

Steamship operators around the world as well as our ownwill learn just what the future offers in the way of atomicpowered merchant tteets.

From the nuclear SAVANNAH, which is a prototype, a testmodel, knowledge will be gained to show the way to use atomicenergy at a cost shipping firms can afford.

Similar to the testing of new types of aircraft, her operationis not expected to be economical. The benefits will derive from.a wealth of technical information gathered by the onlypartical means the actual operation of a nuclear poweredmerchant ship.

Some advantages are known already. A nuclear poweredship will be able to carry more cargo than an oil burner be-cause its power plant will take up less space. The space usedto carry fuel on an oiler will be used for carrying still morecargo on an atonl-driven ship.

A nuclear ship will nut only make longer runs but alsomake them faster because it will operate at high speeds with-out concern for burning up its fuel as is the case with oilburning ships.

last presidential administration and carried on to its comple-tion under the present one.

On accepting his firm’s role in the SAVANNAH story,President C. S. Walsh of States Marine Lines in New Yorksaid, "States Marine Lines considers it a great honor to aidour government in this vital program.

"We are keenly aware of the importance of the N.S.(nuclear ship) SAVANNAH not only to the American mari-time industry but also to our nation and to the world.

"It is an outstanding example to other nations of what ourcountry is doing in the development of nuclear power forpeacetime purposes."

States Marine Lines is one of the largest American flagsteamship companies and owns and operates, with its affiliates,Isthmian Lines, over 80 cargo ships serving all coasts of theUnited States and 199 ports in 49 countries around the world.

The SAVANNAH is not the first special job taken on byStates Marine. Isthmian Lines recently assumed the responsi-bility of operating the C.S. LONG LINES, the world’s mostmodern cable laying ship.

Now States Marine has formed a special nuclear staff forthe SAVANNAH project. It directs many parts of the pro-gram and serves in an advisory capacity to the master and to

The United States’ first nuclear powered merchant ship,the SAVANNAH, sails under the Delaware Memorial Bridgeon a voyage prior to its sea trims.

In-Port time spent refueling will be eliminated.During her initial sea trials, the SAVANNAH operated at

speeds at times as high as 2’1 knots although she was designedto cruise at 20.

Her master, States Marine Lines’ veteran Como Gaston R.DeGroote said even the 24 knots may not have used her fullpower.

Contributing to this success have been a number of firmsand organizations both in government and business whichhave worked closely together.

Besides those already mentioned, there are the naval archi-tects, George S. Sharp, Inc.; the New York ShipbuildingCorp., which built the vessel; the Babcock and Wilcox Com-pany, which built the reactor; the U. S. Coast Guard; thePublic Health Service; the Advisory Committee on ReactorSafeguards of the AEC and the American Bureau of Shipping.

The idea of such a ship was conceived and begun under the

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the engine department officers for operation of the reactor.Manning of the ship has not been left to chance. Key posi-

tion personnel studied special courses at Lynchburg, Virginia,observed operations aboard nuclear submarines and gainedactual operating experience at government and commercialpower installations.

Captain DeGroote, master of the SAVANNAH, is also com-modore of the States Marine Lines’ fleet. On the SAVANNAHhe will have complete command of the vessel which includesthe final responsibility for management and operation of thereactor plant, the safety of the vessel, the reactor, the pas-sengers, the crew and the cargo.

Each voyage of the SAVANNAH will be designed to gainthe most useful experience data on the ship.

From this first step, the age of nuclear powered merchantfleets will follow, just as the first coal burners and the firstoilers ushered in their own respective eras.

PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

No. 32 in a Series Men who make The Port of Houston Hum

By LLOYD GREGORY,!!Director of Information

E~OM 5OUNG MANHOOD, George J. Horner has engaged insome form of shipping an experience that serves him wellas vice president of Amerind Shipping Corporation, steamshipagents and operators.

Mr. Horner’s office is in the Marine Building, 1305 Prairie.Amerind is a Texas corporation; L. C. Paine of New York ispresident.

The sleamship lines represented by Mr. Horner’s companyare involved mainly in general cargo imports and exports toand from Europe and the Mediterranean area. Some of thelines are: Independent Gulf, Fabre, Earl J. Smith, PennShipping. Seaways, and lsbrandtsen.

"I believe the Port of Houston has brighter prospects thanany other port in this eountry," Mr. Horner said. "It serves agreat and ever growing industrial complex, and a rich andvaried hinterland.

"During the last five years, under aggressive leadershipfrom the Navigation District commissioners and its fine gen-eral manager, Jerry Turner, the Port of Houston has madegreat progress. It’s an odd thing, but the more docks youbuild, the more you seem to need. Of course, improved facili-ties attract cargo.

"I believe the Port of Houston is most fortunate to havethe services of Jerry Turner, a practical port man, with 30years background in Gulf shipping."

Brown-eyed and gray-haired, Mr. Hornet is a distinguishedlooking man. He was born in San Antonio January 26, 1899.After graduation from high school in the Alamo City, he at-tended the University of Texas for a short time.

Mr. Horner’s first job was in the I. & G. N. local freight ~office in San Antonio. He worked for the Katy railroad; forthe Clyde Mallory Steamship lines in 1923; and in 1925 wasa traveling freight agent for the Rock Island.

In November, 1927, Mr. Homer came to Houston as com-mercial agent fox- the Mallory Line; in 1931 he went toGalveston as general agent.

In 1934, Mr. Homer went to New York as general freightagent for Mallory; and in 1937 he was promoted to freighttraffic manager for Mallory.

During the second world ~ar, Mr. Horner worked forAgiilines Line, operating agents for the U. S. Maritime Com-mission.

In 1947, Mr. Homer moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico, wherehe represented the New York-Puerto Rico Steamship Com-pany.

In 1950, Mr. Horner opened offices in Houston for Amerind,which also has offices in Galveston.

"I was mighty happy to come back to Texas," Mr. Hornetsaid. "I really feel the future of our great Port of Houston isunlimited.

"The people of Houston should be proud of their port,which in less than 50 years has taken its place as one of theimportant ports of tl~e world."

Mr. amt Mrs. Hornet lead a quiet life at their home ontree-shaded South Boulevard. They are Episcopalians. GEORGE J. HORNER

AUGUST, 1962 11

News In Views Around The Port Of Houston

The American Pilots Association financecommittee met in Houston with represent-atives of the Texas pilots group at theSheraton Lincoln Hotel recently. Amongthose present are, left to right, CaptainsP. H. Luther of Seattle, W. P. Adams ofMobile, C. T. McMains of Houston, W. R.Egan of Philadelphia, W. Hilton Lowe,president of the American Pilots Associa-tion; S. K. Sprada of New Orleans andL. R. Murray, Jr., of Houston.

l~ehring Shipping Company,Inc., international freight for-warders and custom house brok-ers, recently named A. S.Mitchel as vice president incharge of tile Houston office inthe new World Trade Building.Mitchel has 17 years’ servicewith the firm and comes herefrom the New Orleans officewhere he was also vice president.With its headquarters in NewYork, Behring Shipping Com-pany maintains offices in Bahi-more, Philadelphia, San Fran-cisco and Los Angeles as well.

Consul Henry S. K. Hsiangjoined tile Republic of China’sConsul General Wciliang "Bill"Yin in Houston in July to re-place Vice Consul Tsai HsingChao who returned for duty inTaiwan. Hsiang comes to Hous-ton after two and one-half yearsservice in Songkhla, a port townin Thailand. Born in Shanghai,he was educated there at theFuh Tan University where hemajored in Journalism.

Port Commissioner William M. Hatten,second from right, has becn elected pres-ident of the Executive Committee and theBoard of Directors for tile Texas Societyfor the Prevention of Blindness. Othersare, left to right, Dr. Edwin E. Garrett,Dr. Everett L. Goar, state medical chair-man; Representative Criss Cole, a blindmember of the state legislature; RomanBoerger of Dallas, vice president; Mr.Hatten, and Jess W. Bryan, retiringpresident.


Construction oil tile Port of Houston’sthree new public wharves, No. 23, 24 and25, continued apace through July withcompletion scheduled for the middle of1963. In this view from a ship docked atPublic Wharf 22, the steel sheet pilingsfor the wharves are visible running thelength of the channel frontage. Thecranes in the center are drilling and plac-ing some of the reinforced bell-bottomfoundations for the wharves. ~harf 23will be of the open variety for handlingshipments of large oil equipment, heavymachinery and steel cargoes familiar attile Port. Wharves 24 and 25 will havetransit sheds. The laying of access road-ways and rail track is underway in tilebackground as is the work on a second100 x 500 foot shipside storage ware-house to go up behind Wharf 25.

Visitors to the Port of Houston’s newWorld Trade Building are now welcomedand shown around the new building byone of these attractive teenagers who haveformed themselves into a group called theliE’s (pronounced, "Eyes"). From theleft, they are Margie Clarkson, Peg Mc-Kenzie, Mariella Haas, Carol Horsey,Janie Rommel, Karen Harrison, MargaretFuller, Nancy Harrison, Janet Graves andGloria Locascio. They will help entertainforeign students, take foreign and othercallers on tours of the new building, takewomen visitors on shopping tours of thesecond floor glassed-in exhibit area andassist generally where needed.

The Navy l,eague of tile United Stateswill hold its regional convention for thesixth, eighth and ninth Naval Districts atthe Shamrock Hilton Hotel on September12-15. Fred J. Drew of Houston, regionalpresident, left, recently met with AdmiralArleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Opera-tions, U.S.N. (Ret.), to discuss the con-vention. They are looking over a modelof the U.S.S. Hunley, which will servicethe Polaris Missile submarines.

AUGUST, 1962 13

INDIAN JOURNALISTSVisit Houston And EnvironsTo Learn About United StatesE|GHTF]EN TOP 1NI)IAN journalists interested in ship-

ping, space travel, agriculture and politics visited Houston,where Ihere is an abundance of each in July.

They came to the Port of Houston’s new World TradeBuilding, were met by Port officials, briefed on the Port’sactivities, and given a tour of the new building.

Later they made a trip down the Houston Ship Channelon the Port’s inspection vessel SAM HOUSTON where theygleaned much information on Houston’s burgeoning foreigntrade.

Most of the visitors were editors and some represented

newspapers in the big cities of Calcutta, Bombay, New Delhi,Bibar and Madras.

Their three-day fact-finding tour of Houston was part of atour of the United States, under the auspices of the Depart-ment of Defense, the Department of State and the U. S. In-formation Agency.

The Institute of International Education arranged the lriplocally.

Other activities in Houston by the group included a trip tonearby rice and cotton fields and a trip to the R. E. (Bob)Smith ranch at Richmond, Texas.

Among the visitors were Mahavie Adhukari of Bombay,resident editor of Nay Bharat Times; Braj Nandan Azad ofCalcutta, joint editor, Indian Nation; A. C. Bhatia of NewDelhi, assistant editor, Ambala Tribune; and Romesh Chan-der Chopra of New Delhi, managing director and managingeditor, Hind Samachar Ltd., and proprietor of the HindSamachar Printing Press.

The modern architecture of the Port of Houston’s WorldTrade Building fascinated the Indian visitors.

The heavy concentration of industry along the Houston ShipChannel drew many comments.

The visiting Indians enjoy Houston’s weather from the bowof the Port’s Inspection Boat SAM HOUSTON.

T. H. Sherwood, manager of the Public Grain Elevator, sec-ond from the right, demonstrates how grain is unloaded froma rail car.


COTTON IS A MAJOR export item through Port of Hous-

ton. In the crop year just ended, some 1,175,000 ])ales werereceived in Houston, of which 850,000 bales were exported.With its aggregation of waterfront compress facilities, includ-ing 13 high density presses, the Port is equipped to providea complete service to the cotton mcrchant. In addition, the

Port’s program of wharf construction is continuing to provideeven more facilities. Transportation costs to Houston havetrended consistently downward in 1950, for example, a Lub-bock bale bore a rail cost of $3.62 whereas today that costis $3.07. Most of Texas’ cotton production is favored withrail rates lower to Houston-Galveston than to other Gulf ports.

4r 4rFURTHER RATE reductions in export wheat and flour rates

from the Great Plains area have been proposed by Gulf rail-roads, and again under emergency consideration. Representa-tive new rates, if approved, would be 40¢ per cwt. fromLubbock, Amarillo, Clinton and Enid, 331~¢ from Chillicothe,grading upwards to 68¢ from origins in northern Colorado.Present grain receipts at the Public Elevator remain predomi-nately by truck even though the relatively short-haul rail rateswere reduced in late May and early June. The new rates willtake 10 to 10a~ cents a hundred pounds from rail rates ineffect prior to that reduction, and will include origins inKansas, Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Arkansas, Okla-homa, Missouri and Texas.

FISH MEAL rates more favorable to Houston importers ship-ping to interior Texas points have been approved by our

railroads and should be in effect by the end of August. Pro-posed by the Port Bureau, these attractive rates are alsosought to be made available for tonnage moving into theSouthwest and Midwest. Over 30,000 tons of fish meal movedthrough Houston in the first mouths of this year--a recordvolume. , , ,

FOURTEEN SEPARATE I.C.C. and Federal Maritime Commis-sion matters have been handled by the Port Bureau in thefirst months of 1962. In recent weeks, the Bureau filed replybriefs of Houston and other Gulf ports in an I.C.C. com-plaint case seeking lower rates from South Dakota to GreatLakes ports on bentonite clay; intervened in a rate complaintby a Gull port seeking lower export rail rates on Arkansas-Louisiana rice; sought interstate operating authority for atruck line to accommodate Houston importation of bananasto an eight-state area; replied to rall road exceptions to anI.C.C. examiner’s findings on rice rates to a competing Gullport; asked I.C.C. suspension of fish meal rates deterimentalto Houston; requested suspension of reduced transcontinentalrail export rates on evaporated milk from the Midwest; par-ticipated in the third and final session of F.M.C. hearingsinvolving Gulf-West Coast relationships in ocean rates in theFar East trade, and sought I.C.C. suspension of export rateson cottonseed cake and meal from Texas origins to Louisianaand other Texas ports.

JULY 31 RATE reductions on import iron and steel articlesincluding pipe, in carloads, will measurably improve Port ofHouston’s competitive position with North Atlantic and GreatLakes ports in this important category of tonnage. These re-duced steel rates represent one of the 59 adjustments broughtto conclusion by the Port Bureau in the first six months ofthis year. A detailed statement of the steel rates is availableupon request.

PORT OF HOUSTON’S continued development of export-import tonnage in the Mountain-Pacific region will be aidedby a reduction of $1.40 a ton in rail freight costs on mostof this traffic, effective with August 15. Virtually all porttraffic with this area----excepting that which moves on specifi-cally-published export-import rates--will be freed of a railcharge of 7 cents per 100 lbs. which now applies in addi-tion to the line-haul rate and normal port charges. Slight costreductions on traffic moving under specific export-importrates also are being sought.ASSESSMENT OF RAIL freight charges on import commod-ities handled through Port of Houston’s Bulk Materials Han-dling Plant will be virtually automatic under a tariff ruleproposed to the railroads by the Port Bureau and now ap-proved for publication. The rule will provide that the BulkPlant weights will be accepted by the railroads for assessmentof freight charges.

AUGUST, 1962 15

Holland-America Line Has Sailed

FROM THI~ H. A. L.

SCRAP B(}{}I{

Some of the ships which havea niche in the Holland-AmericaLine’s Hall of Memories includethe ROTTERDAM No. 1,which opened the line’s tran-Atlantic service on October 15,1872. She was 253 feet longand had accommodations foreight first class and 288 steeragepassengers. In the {renter is theSOMMELSDYK No. 1 and atthe bottom is the EDAM.

.~II:T~ ~EARS AGO this month the Hol-land-America Line started servingports on the Gulf of Mexico.

This was before the pioneer Hous-tonians had dredged out Buffalo Bayouto transform Houston from a sleepyinland town to a bustling port city. Asa matter of fact, it was 13 years laterbefore the first Holland-America Lineship nosed up the Ship Channel to theyoung port of Houston.

But in the years since, the green-white-green flag of the Port of Rotter-dam, home city of the Holland-AmericaLine, has become a familiar sight atHouston wharves. In that time the shipsfrom Hollaud have brought in moun-tains of cargo which includes whiskey,lime, steel and European manufacturedgoods. They have likewise loaded othermountains of cargo, including carbonblack, cotton, flour, petrochemicals,metals and hides, en route to ports inthe United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland,Germany, France and other Europeancountries.

The names of sonie of these ships willring familiarly in the ears of Houstonshipping men. Among the first of theships to come to Houston was theBEEMSTERDYK, a 6,869 gross tonfreighter. Then, a little later, was theANDYK, a 8,379 gross ton ship.

Today, such Holland-America Lineships as the AXELDYK, ARNEDYKand AMSTELDYK are seen regularlyin the Port of Houston, as is the new"G" class for Gulf ships, one of which,the GAASTERDYK is shown on thecover of this magazine.

The GAASTERDYK entered Gulfservice in 1961. Before the anniversaryyear is ended, three more new "G" shipswill be in the Gulf service and willcarry the Holland-America Line flaginto the Port of Houston again andagain.

Proud of its long association with themany American ports on the Gulf ofMexico, the Holland-America line isespecially aware of the phenomenalgrowth of the Port of Houston since theday in 1925 wheu the first ship of theline touched the now famous Port ofHouston.

Like Houston, the Holland-AmericaLine’s growth has been steady and con-tinued and today, less than a centuryafter its founding, it is one of the lead-ing passenger and freight shipping con-cerns of the world. In fact, the growth,expansion and extension of services ofthe Holland-America Line has been in-terrupted only twice in the 20th Centuryand that was during the period of WorldWars I and I[.

Founded in 1873 on free enterpriseprinciples which still obtain today, theHolland-America Line’s success in deal-ing with and servicing the shippingneeds of American ports, areas, and peo-ple is embodied in the traditional friend-ship that has been in evidence sincewell before the American Revolution.

By the time the first Holland-AmericaLine ship entered a Gulf port in 1912,the line had had 40 years of solid ex-perience carrying freight to and fromAmerica for it had already establisheda flourishing service between Europeanports and those of the eastern UnitedStates.

When the Line first entered the Gulfservice it named the Texas Transportand Terminal Company, Inc. as its gen-eral agents. Today, half a century later,the bond between the two firms is aswhen it began.

In order to keep pace with the grow-ing demand for fast, reliable freighttransportation between the Gulf portsand Europe, the Holland-America Line

The new and modern ROTTERDAM,which now sails the Atlantic, makes asharp contrast with the first ship to bearthat name.

AUGUST, 1962 17

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Cotton is loaded on board a H.A.L. ship bound for Europe.

added new ships and extended its sched-ules to service many more ports thanever before.

At the beginning of World War II,six of the line’s 26 ships were eithereaplured or destroyed. The 20 remain-ing ships and 3,600 men joined theAllies and worked for victory (luring allof Holland’s occupation by the enemy.

One dramatic example was the world-renowned passenger liner, NIEUWAMSTERDA;II. On a Caribbean cruisewhen war broke out against Holland,she returned her passengers to Ihe U. S.and was refitted for war use. From Sep-lember 191,0 until April. 1946. she car-ried some 378,361 Allied soldiers, medi-cal personnel, plus material throughhostile waters and covered, in that time,a distance equal to 21 complete tripsaround the entire world.

Of the 20 ships that served the Allies,17 were sunk. However, within a scantfive years after the end of the war Rot-terdam was nearly rebuilt, the Dutchnation was well on its way toward totalrecovery, and the Holland-America Linehad restored the major portion of itsfleet.

Today, well within a generation sincethe end of the war, the Holland-AmericaLine fleet consists of 33 ships amongwhich are some of the world’s bestknown passenger liners, the flagshipROTTERDAM, the STATENDAM, theMAASDAM, the RYNDAM and thenewly refurbished, NIEUW AMSTER-DAM.

Also included in today’s fleet are thefirst of the new "G" ships in the Hol-

land-America Lim"s postwar Gulf serv-ice. These ships resulted from an ex-tensive postwar study of the specificneeds of Gulf ports.

Cargoes, schedules, the rise and de-velopment of whole new industries suchas petrochemicals, the continued impor-tance of the cotton, food products, to-bacco, paper products, lube oil, andother industries were surveyed andstudied. The conclusion, after threeyears, was that a whole new breed ofship was required. It had to be versatile

enough to carry many types of cargowith equal safety and efficiency. The"G" ship was designed to meet theserequirements.

Their moderate size i8,800 tons cargodeadweight) permits a quick turna-round. Their high speed (181/2 knotsloaded) means fast transit time and lowinterest charges on shipments. In fact,the new GAASTERDYK exceeded 20knots on her trial run.

The equipment in the new "(," shipsrepresents another area of basic im-provement. Along ~ith the most modernnavigational and operational instru-ments, each ship has two 75 ton heavylift derricks which (’all lift 120 tonswhen married. Each has four stainlesssteel de,"p tanks and four separate re-frigerator chambers which can bebrought as low as five degrees belowzero Fahrenheit. separately and auto-matically.

Each of the ships also has a "Cargo-caire" humidity control and circulatingair system in her general (:argo com-partments which eliminates sweat dam-age. Each has comfortable, air-eondi-tioned crew quarters.

The GAASTERDYK entered the (3ulfService last year. Three more new "G"ships, the GI~OTEDYK, which will makeits maiden voyage to Houston in Sep-tember of this year, the GREBBEDYKand the GORREDYK will join the fleetand enter the Gulf service in 1962. Asthese ships enter the Port of Houstonthey will serve as a reminder to all whosee them that they are among the latestachievements in the continuing effort ofthe Holland-America Line service be-tween Houston and the ports of France,Belgium, Holland and Germany.

Lumber is among the imports to the United States brought in by Holland-AmericaLine.


AN ENERGETIC commercial service to

help American importers get in touchwith British exporters is building newand profitable trade from the UnitedKingdom through the Port of Houston.

As part of the British Consulate-Gen-eral on the tenth floor of the new WorldTrade Center, the commercial servicehere is one of a score of such in BritishConsulates all over the United States tohelp exporters wishing to sell in theAmerican market.

In Houston, the British Pro-Consul isG. S. W. Gush and the Commercial Of-fleer, Graham Chidozoy, both workingunder the direction of British ConsulHarry Lewty. Allen Price is ConsulGeneral and in charge of the entireConsulate-General which also includesa Vice Consul and Information Officer.

The United Kingdom presently- ac-counts for nearly eight per cent of thevalue of all of Houston’s foreign tradeand ranks second in this category onlybehind West Germany. More than $35million worth of goods was shippedfrom the U. K. to the U. S. through thePort of Houston in 1960--the last yearfigures from the Department of (~om-merce are yet available.

The same year another $69 millionin exports from the U. S. to the UnitedKingdom moved out of the Port ofHouston.

The British commercial services arein constant touch with the Americanmarkck and commercial officers in theHouston Consulate-General, as well asin other British Consular offices overthe U. S., welcome inquiries fromAmerican businessmen interested inbuying from the U. K.

When a British manufacturer wishesto enter the American market, he canmake one .....of twomoves. H ecan makeknown hisrequire-merits tothe BritishBoard ofTrade inLondonwhich sendsthe infor-mation tothe British MALCOLM GALEEmbassy in Recent VisitorWashington. The commercial office,headed by Commercial Counsellor Mal-colm Gale, will get in touch with theappropriate Consulates establishedacross the U. S.

Sometimes as many as tetr or twentyconsulates will be working on the samecommercial project.

The second thing the British manu-facturer can do is to write directly to

Looking over acommercial in-quiry are, fromthe left, Consul

Henry Lewty,Consul GeneralAllen Price and

Pro-ConsulG. S. W. Gush.

british commercialservice stimulates

business relationsthe Consulate. In this case, he usuallyhas some advance information as to thearea or locale in which he hopes tomarket his product.

Under either approach, the Consulatehas several means by which it aids theBritish manufacturer.

The Consulate maintains a list of in-quiries from local firms and an officerchecks this to see if he can match onein the list with his British manufacturer.

If there is not an appropriate in-quiry in the list, an officer will take theinformation on the British manufac-turer on his next regular trip aroundhis territory.

In Houston Plo-Consul Gush reportshe averages about 1,000 miles permonth traveling the Texas area on com-mercial business.

There are other helpful commercialfunctions performed by the Consulates.

Recently, a British manufacturer oftransistor radios came to Houston andthrough interviews and information ob-tained for him by the Consulate officehere, the manufacturer made arrange-ments with a party in Dallas and hisradios are now on the market there.

The Consulate maintains a service forAmerican firms wishing to representBritish manufacturers here or to marketUnited States-made products in Britain.

The American can use the Consulate’sextensive card index file of British firmsalready doing business in the area andtheir agents.

The Consulate also maintains exten-

sive trade directories where the ad-dresses of most British firms are found.

It has a large collection of Britishtrade publications with informative adson numerous British firms.

Finally, a Consulate can help Amer-ican businessmen planning to visit Brit-ain to set up appointments there evenbefore he leaves the United States. TheConsulate can make the necessary ar-rangements through the British Boardof Trade in London thus saving theAmerican businessman much time andtrouble.

Of course, all of these services areprovided free of charge in the interestof stimulating trade both ways.

Houston’s busy Consulate-General ofGreat Britain has long been active inmaking British businessmen aware ofthe nearly ten million Americans livingin the Consulate’s area.

Former Consul Henry Niblock, nowcharge d’affaircs in Jamaica, spent sev-eral months in Britain last winter talk-ing to businessmen s groups in Glasgow,Manchester, Leeds, York, Nottingham,Leister, Cardiff, Bristol, and other cities.

On his return to Houston he reported,"I found more interest in Texas amongBritish exporters than ever before."

"The old image of Texas as a cow-boy state in the romantic West stilllingers, but the keen businessman alsois learning that Houston provides firstclass facilities for shippers and the richTexas market offers many opportu-nities."

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Consular BallDate Is Set

The Eleventh Annual Consular Ballsponsored by the Houston Junior Cham-ber of Commerce will be held September8 in the Emerald Room of tile ShamrockHilton Hotel.

Howard N. Tellepsen, ehalrman of theHouston Port Commission, has beennamed honorary chairman of this year’sball.

Highlights of the affair will be theGrand March presenting the HoustonConsular Corps, lhe music of the BuddyBrock Continental Orchestra, and a role{-night breakfast.

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Grocery ChainPlans Move IntoForeign Trade

J. \Vehlgartcn. Inc., Houston-basedsupermarket chain, has organized atotally-owned subsidiary to acquire do-mestic and international business opera-tions of a diversified nature, Alfred W.I,ashcr, Jr.. newly-appointed vice presi-dent for finance and corporate dmelop-ment of the parent company, said.

I~asher, board chairman and presidentof Inland Industries, Inc., said the newcorporation was formed for the purposeof acquiring new domestic and interna-tional industries, "preferably those witha service or international potential."

Officers of the Inland IndustriesI,oard. all of ~hom are officers and

directors of J. \Xcingarlcn, Inc., includeBernard \Veingarten. vice president;Milton Goodman. sccretars-treasurer;and Arthur Shrock. assistant secretary-treasurer. The ne~ corporation will t)eheadquartered in Houston.

"’To our knm~h’dge, this is the tirsttime a retail food chain has diwwsificdits business operations 1o explore thepotential of the business fields ~e planfor Inland Industries" operation,-,"Lasher said.

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West Germany And India Rank In Trade With HoustonThe Port of Houston’s biggest foreign

trade customers are West Germany dol-larwise and India in tomlage, the Navi-gation District revealed recently instatistics based on 1960 figures.

In dollar value, West Germany had8.9 per cent of the total, followed bythe United Kingdom with 7.9 per cent;India, which led in per cent of tonnage,

7.24 per cent; Japan, 7.0 per cent;Brazil, 5.7 per cent; and Italy, 5.0 percent.

India had 11.9 per cent of the totaltonnage figure followed by the Nether-lands Antilles with 7.49 per cent; WestGermany, 5.6 per cent; Venezuela, 5.3per cent; the United Kingdom, 5.1 percent; and Italy, 4.5 per cent.

Of $74.6 million in exports to WestGermany, vegetable oils accounted for$22.7 million; cotton, $10.1 million, andsynthetic’ rubber, $5.1 million.

Imports from West Germanyamounted to $42.3 million, roughly halfof which were autos, trucks and busesat $20.3 million.

Total export tonnage to Indiaamounted to 1,067,491 tons. of which

~__ wheat accounted for 871,790 tons. Rice[oodlngCentralGulf’$ ~ /~" ~.-I~]~/~ was the only other big item totalingS.S. Green Valley ~, tli\~ ~t~i~iii~//~/#’E~o, ~o., .°~o.~. /3.X/~/ll~,ilM ;1 ’"

121,870 tons.Imports h’om India were about one-

’ "~ !~’ /t]ll!iiillf II// ttenth the export total and amounted to]]0,350 tons. Manganese was the larg-Take / / i ’ "X,}, ] ", .est single item at 73,452 tons.

BIG ~ Consul of IsraelShipping ~ Visits Houston

Problems to ~~~iiliii~Yeshavalm Stopper, Israel’s consul in

New Yo~k and trade commissioner forthe United States spent three days inCENTR~:~:~~I~ .o=~on .,.,~,,~’, o,, ~ ~=de ~.~.o,,

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ment mission.Stopper held numerous discussions

with local foreign traders with a viewtoward more commerce between the twocountries.

Israel is considering Houston as apossible site for an Israeli consulate inthe future, Stopper said.

WELCH IS CHAIRMANLeo D. Welch, chairInan of the board,

Standard Oil Company (New Jersey),will serve as chairman of the nationalconvention committee of the 49th Na-tional Foreign Trade Convention to beheld October 29-3I in New York City.

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