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PORT OFHOUSTON

Official PublicationOf the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District

Volume 5 March, 1963 No. 3

Directory Of OfficialsFOR THE

Port of HoustonPORT COMMISSIONERSHOWARD TELLEPSEN, ChairmanW. N. BLANTON, Vice ChairmanJOHN G. TURNEYJ. P. HAMBLENW. M. HATTEN

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

Assistant

PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENTLLOYD GRE6ORY, Director o/ InformationTED SUMERLIN, Editor o/ MagazineVAU6HN M. BRYANT, Director o/

International Relations

SALES DEPARTMENTGEOR¢E W. ALTVATER, GeneralSales ManagerEDWARD P. MOORE, District Sales ManagerFRANK WARD, Assistant

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

Board of Trade Building, Chicago, Ill.CHARLES A. BARROWS, District Sales Manager

Board of Trade Building,Kansas City, Mo.

JOHN R. WEILER, District Sales Manager1519 Capitol, Houston

OPERATIONS DEPARTMENTC. E. BULLOCK, Operations ManagerW. F. LAND, Terminal ManagerT. H. SHERWOOD, Manager of Grain ElevatorWALLACE J. STAGNER, Manager-Storage

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

MARCH, 1963

ContentsPort of Houston Entertains In Puerto Rico ........ 9

Texas Maritime Academy Gets First Crew of Sea-Going Cadets ........... 10

Capt. John Morgan Loved The Sea At An Early Age ............ 13

Giant Drilling Rig Shipped To Tripoli .................. 14

Visitors On Board The Sam Houston .................. 15

Marchessini Lines Offer The New Look ....................... 16

The Houston Port Bureau Reports .......................... 19

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

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

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

THE COVER

Photographer R. F. Rimel, Jr. of Ed Stewart and Associates was waiting on thedock late one afternoon recently when the EURYMEDON arrived at the Port ofHouston. The interesting picture introduces you to an interesting story about theMarchessini Lines starting 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.

This publication is not copyrighted and per-

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

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

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Port of Houston EntertainsPuerto Rican World Traders

Leading shippers and importers of Puerto Rico werehonored in San Juan last month at a reception given by thePort of Houston during a visit by Port Commission Chair-marl Howard Tellepsen and Port of Houston General ManagerJ. P. Turner.

The Houston port officials made the Puerto Rico visit.accompanied by their wives, at the end of a two-week tradepromotion and goodwill trip through Central America andPanama organized by the East Texas Chamber of Commerce.

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc.. is Houston’s key sea link~ith the island Commonwealth, Which continues to show ahealthy and growing trade with the Houston area. Lykes’Puerto Rico manager, Robert Mackey, made arrangementsfor the Houston reception.

During the San Juan visit the Houston port leaders wereshown the port development project underway by the islandgoxernment uhich is expected to augment port efficiency ofoperation and increase trade to the historic port city.

Dona Felisa Rincon de Gautier, San Juan’s internationally-known mayoress, was a guest of the Houston group at its recep-tion last month. She is shown chatting Ilere with Mrs. J. P.Turner, center, flanked by Port Board Chairman HowardTellepsen, Mrs. Tellepsen and Port General Manager Turner.

Lykes Bros. General Manager Robert Mackey, left, chatsunder the Houston banner with Francisco Jimenez, Jr., ofGoble and Jimenez; Robert F. Thornton, manager of Swift &Co. in San Juan; Robert Bird, assistant manager of Texaco ofPuerto Rico and David Martinez, commander of the Military,Sea Transport Service in San Juan.

Edward Schultz, left, and H. S. McGinnis, right, chemicalsales director and chemical sales manager, respectively, forPittsburgh Plate Glass in San Juan, with Robert F. Bland, vicepresident and general manager of R. P. Farnsworth Co., andWilliam Ross, manager of Glidden International.

Port Commission Chairman Howard Tellepsen, left, withPuerto Rican trade leaders Luis Rivera, assistant general man-ager of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in San Juan; LeoAndrade, president of General Mills in San Juan; Luis F. Guil-bot of Lykes Line, San Juan, and J. A. Lasalde, Lykes Lineagent in Ponce, P. B.

MARCH, 1963

General Manager J. P. Turner, right, of the Port of Houstonwith Puerto Rican shippers, from left, Alberto E. Gonzalez,manager Ochoa Fertilizer Co.; Jorge Camunas, Corona BrewingCo.; Antonio Quintana of Antonio Quintana, Hermanos; andMiles Fairbank of the Fairbank-Diversey Corporation of SanJuan.

Texas Maritime Academy

First Erew Of Sea-Goin~l Eadets

SEAGOING CADETS from the TexasA. & M. College will soon be herdingocean steeds to wharf bitt hitching postsall over the world as they carry to newfields the fame of the school that hassupplied more officers to the UnitedStates Army than even ~’est Point.

For The Texas Martime Academy gotunderway on the plains of A. & M. atCollege Station deep in the heart ofTexas last Fall, as Captain Bennett M.Dodson welcomed aboard 21 "saltwaterAggies", the first students in the newfour-year course for budding MerchantMarine officers.

Similar to the state Maritime Acad-emies of Maine, New York, and Cali-fornia and built along the same linesas the famed national Maritime Acad-emy at King’s Point, N. Y., the TexasMerchant Marine Academy is alreadyunder a full head of steam.

Superintendent Dodson, himself aMaster Mariner, retired U.S. NavyCaptain and former professor at boththe national and California schools, hashigh hopes for the budding Texas yen-lure.

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By CARL D. BONDInternational Relations Representative

"We’~e got a fine first-year groupwith a real Aggie gung-ho attitude,"says tbe handsome skipper who willguide the school’s destiny. "Interest ismounting steadily and we should haw~our full complement of 50 new men innext Fall’s freshman class."

For this first year the land-lockedcadets are getting the rudiments of theirtraining at the famed home of the"Fighting Texas Aggies" surrounded byinfantry, artillery, armor and engineers.But beginning with September the sec-ond year classmen will be stationed atthe Texas Martime Academy’s newquarters on Galveston Island at historicold Fort Crockett--once the pride ofthe Coast Artillery Corps protecting tireapproaches to Galveston Bay.

In succesive years they will workthrough the complete course until thisclass which entered Aggieland in 1962will be graduated as third mates orthird engineers in June of 1966. Firstyear men will continue to get their in-doctrination year at A. & M.’s famedCollege Station campus, but will move

to Fort Crockett for their remainingyears.

A necessary and proud adjunct of theTMA is the seagoing training shipwhich has been assigned it by theMaritime Administration and which theTexas midshipmen will begin handlingon cruises all over the world as soonas they have cadets in all four classes.Until that time tbe Texas merchantmariners will train with the cadets ofthe New York Maritime Academy outof Fort Schuyler, N. Y. aboard theEMPIRE STATE IV.

The Texas training ship is the origi-nal U.S.S. COMFORT, a hospital shipwhich was later given to the MaineMerchant Marine Academy and hasbeen used by its cadets as a trainingship until this year. At that time theMaine Academy was given the oldANCON of the Panama Railway Co.out of the U.S.-Canal Zone run andthe COMFORT was assigned to theTMA. It is presently being recondi-tioned at Beaumont, Texas.

No name has been selected yet, saysSuperintendent Dodson, but his boys

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Far from the salt winds of the ocean,the first class of the Texas MaritimeAcademy braces for inspection bySuperintendent Dodson in front of theirbarracks at A. & M. College, CollegeStation, Texas. Cadet Jack H. Smith ofGalveston, in command of the formation,wears the blue midshipman’s uniformthat will be worn by the cadets whileon sea duty and for the three yearsthey attend class at the school’sFort Crockett campus. The others wearthe army cadet uniform required duringtheir first year on the A. & M. campus.

are getting lots of suggestions fromtheir land-locked buddies in Aggielandand will come up with something be-fore they take over for their own cruisethree years hence.

The Texas Academy grew out of ademand for more trained merchantmarine officers both of the deck andengine categories, and especially fromthe Gulf area which has so many largeand growing ports. Texas was chosensince the state runs a close second toNew York in total water-borne foreignand domestic tonnage handled at all itsports.

The Texas Maritime Academy is tileonly such school in the South" and isone of only six in the nation. Author-ized by the" state legislature, it is a jointventure by the state and the federalgovernment. Under the Federal Mari-time Academy Act of 1958 the federalgovernment provides a training shipand funds for its maintenance, an as-sistance grant of $600 a year to eachstudent and $75,000 annual fundsmatching state appropriations.

The freshmen TMA cadets receivetheir basic college courses in the hu-manities, language and science duringtheir first year at College Station.

They are billeted in the same resi-dence halls as A. & M. upperclassmenwho have attended the Marine Corpsplatoon leaders class. These upperclass-men, with their specialized training innaval terms and traditions, serve ascounselors and supervisors fo~ the mari-time cadets.

Spit and polish military training fromthe Marine trained upperclassmen for

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the cadets during their first year isencouraged by Academy CommanderDodson who says, "[ think the firstyear’s training at A. & M. is as fine anindoctrination into the merchant marinecourse of study as the boys can have.We think the military training anddiscipline is good for {he boys and insome schools it is carried out rigidlythrough his four years.

"We plan a more relaxed programthe latter three years at Galveston inthis respect, but we think that any boywho goes through his first year inAggieland will have the makings of afine merchant marine officer."

A special unit pride is instilled in theboys by having them attend classes information and sending /heir own teamsto intramural events.

While at the main campus. "SeaA,~,~ios" wear the regulation arm), typecadet uniform with their special Mari-time Academy shoulder patch. However.as soon as they leave the campus fortheir first summer cruise they shed thearmy khaki for the midshipman’s blueor white uniform they wear the re-mainder of the time they are in theAcademy.

When the cadets return to class aftertheir first summer crui~ they report toFort Crockett, their campus home forthe next three years. At Fort Crockett.the Martime Academy shares a threestory, fire-proof concrete building withthe A. & M. Department of Oceanog-raphy and Meteorology. The buildingserves both as residenee hall and classarea for the Academy.

Classes at Fort Crockett include such

courses as marine thermodynamics,diesel engineering, marine steam andgas turbines, nuclear propulson, engi-neering repairs, naval architecture andmarine electrical equipment for theengineering students.

Cadets working toward a dcek offi-cer’s rating take courses in oeeatltransportation, marine cargo operations,marine insurance, admiralty and mari-time law, ship organization and opera-tions, communications, navigation andseamanship. Additionally, the Navyteaches courses on Naval weapons,Naval machinery, Naval operations andleadership.

"When a boy or man graduates fromthe Academy he will have as fine abackground in the maritime professionas available anywhere. He will alsohave a general education equal to thatof any college graduate with a bachelorof science degree," Captain Dodsonsaid in stressing- the comprehensivestudy course at the TMA.

The faculty at the Texas MaritimeA~ademy makes the summer cruiseswith the cadets, conducting classes inEnglish, public speaking and hm~ignlanguages, as well as supervising theoperation of the ship by the cadets.When the academy reaches its full en-rollment of 200 students a total of fif-teen faculty members will be assignedto it.

The maximum size for freshmanclasses is 50 students. Admissions andgeneral administrative matters are

A ship captain’s office surrounded bya cow pasture is the way BennettM. Dodson, Captain, USN, Ret., MasterMariner and superintendent of theTMA describes his headquarters in theheart of the East Texas farm and ranchcountry at A. & M. The Captain, retiredafter 30 years service in the Navywhere he had many important commandsincluding captain, USS IOWA;director of cargo div., MATS,Washington; and commandant, servicesquadron No. 1, has also had a longbackground in maritime academy work.He has been head of the department ofnautical science, King’s Point; executiveo~cer of the California MaritimeAcademy; superintendent of thePennsylvania Maritime Academy; captainof the training ships CALIFORNIA,KING’S POINTER and AMERICANSAILOR.

handled by the regular administrativestaff of Texas A. & M. College.

Admission requirements for freshmen

include graduation from a properly ac-credited secondary school with a mini-

mum of 15 credit units acceptable tothe college for entrance purposes. Pros-pective students are interviewed by theacademy faculty to determine interest

and adaptability lo lhe maritime pro-fession. Transfer students from other

colleges and uniw’rsitics must providevalidated Iranscripts from all schoolspreviously attended.

Costs to Texas resident cadet stu-

dents, including tuition, living expenses,uniforms and equipment and cruise ex-penses for the four vears~ have beenestimated to be about $1,470. Thevearlv expenses range from a low $915the freshman year to a ]ngh of $l,259the junior year.

Four of the other five maritime acad-emies in the United States are statesupported institutions and are locatedin Maine. Massaclmseus, New York andCalifornia. The federal merchant ma-rine academy--King’s Point-is lo-,ated in Ne~ York state.

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The Texas Maritime Academy’s as yetun-named training ship on its way toBeaumont for re-fitting prior to beingturned over to the school for itssummer cruises.

This former Army barracks at FortCrockett will be modernized and convertedto become the Galveston headquartersof the Texas Maritime Academy.

PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

NO. 38 in a Series

John C Mo,.ga.His Lnve Of The fleaStarted At Early A!je

By LLOYD GREGORYInformation Director

JOHN CONNOR MORGAN of the Houston office of

Ayers Steamship Co. Inc.. was born and reared in Gretna,Louisiana. just across tile Mississippi river from New Orleans.

When a boy. he rode the ferry to the Crescent City, andvisited the Port area~, where he saw the banana boats fromCentral America; the Morgan Line passenger boats, Dixie,Momus. and Comus, plying between Houston, Galveston,New Orleans. and New York; and freighters from manylands.

Interviewed in his World Trade Building offices here,Captain Morgan said:

"I remember at an early age [ wanted to go to sea andthat yearning increased year by year."

Shortly after Iris 1937 graduation from Gretna high school,Hr. Morgan shipped out as a merchant marine cadet. Hishome for three years was the Delta freighter, LORRAINECROSS, one of the ships he had noted many times at thePort of New Orleans. He graduated in 194t as a third mateand an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve, working his wayup until he won his master’s license and title of Captainin 19/13.

Covering all theaters of Worht War I1, Captain Morganstayed at sea until Nox., 1945, when he asked for shore dutyfor a very good reason: to marry Miss Helen Louise Millsof Boston. a U.S. Navy nurse.

He worked for Deha Lines in New Orleans until 1918,when Delta sent him to Santos, Brazil, as port captain.

"Santos is one of the world’s great coffee ports, and lifethere was colorful and interesting," Captain Morgan said.

He continued as manager of the Delta Lines office inSantos until 1960, when he came to Houston to accept themanagership of the Ayers office.

Avers Steamship Co., Inc., is Gulf general agent forMediterranean Star Line, and for the Crescent Line to theMid East; also Gulf agent for North American MaritimeAgencies, which is general U.S. agent for Maritime Companyof the Philippines. Ayers Steamship Co.. Inc.. has offices inNew Orleans, Houston, Galveston, Memphis and Dallas.

Captain Morgan feels the future of the Port of Houstonis bright, pointing out: "The Port of Houston serves a greatindustrial and agricultural complex that is constantly ex-l)anding. Over the next few years, benefits of the new facili-ties of the Navigation District are sure to be felt in everincreasing measure. However. we can’t afford to sit on ourlaurels or on the seats of our pants."

Fishing and flower gardening are two of the hobbies ofCaptain Morgan, but he gets the most fun playing with hisfive children, four of whom were born in Brazil, and speakPortugue~ ttuently. The youngsters are: Johu Jr., 16; Ken-neth Louis, 13; Sharon Ann. 11; Mary Elizabeth, 10;Michael, 5.

The Morgans live at 3726 Griggs Road. They are membersof St. Peter The Apostle Parish Church.

Captain Morgan is a member of the Propeller Club. Portof Houston. World Trade Association. and World Trade Club.

MARCH, 1963

Men Who Make the Port of Houston Hum

CAPT. JOHN C. MORGAN

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Dwarfing a long-shoreman, giant dol-lies to be used intransporting a fullyassembled oil drill-ing rig across theLibyan desert waiton the Houstondocks for loadingaboard ship. Thetires stand 94 incheshigh.

Giant Drillin9 Ri9 ShippedTo Shores of Tripoli

The world’s largest portable drilling rig was shipped fromthe Port of Houston to Tripoli, Libya, for Mobil Oil ofCanada, Ltd. in February.

The first portion of the 1,000 ton shipment, four gianthydraulic lift dollies, was loaded aboard the S.S. VALETTAof the Central Gulf Lines with the rest of the $1.4 millionrig following later.

The four dollies can move lip to 800,000 pounds acrossthe open desert, cutting the number of trips to move a drillingrig from 50 to three.

Built in Houston by the Mid-Continent Supply Co., thel l-story high rig was crated for shipment by InternationalExport Packers with forwarding duties being handled byInternational Shipping Services.

The Port of Houston. with extensive open dock space,heavy duty concrete roadways and heavy lift equipment, isespecially well adapted to shipment of heavy industrial itemssuch as the Mobile Desert Master No. 1.

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The 14-story high Mobil Desert MasterDrilling Rig No. 1 was field tested inHouston before being dismantled for shipmentto the Libyan desert. The rig,biggest land drilling unit ever built, wasassembled by Mid-Continent Supply Co.for transportation in three units fromone drilling site to another.

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Turkish Student Ergin Un, in Huustontinder the business training exchangeprogram of the Association Internation-ale des Estudiants en Sciences Econo-miqnes et Commerciales visited tile Hous-toll Ship Channel aboard the NavigationDistrict’s inspection vessel the SAMHOUSTON as part of his business orien-tation. Sponsored by the Houston JuniorChamber of Commerce tinder the AIESECprogram, Un ix now working at tile LoneStar Bag Div., of St. Regis Paper Com-pany to learn American business methods.When he has linished his training pro-gram be will return to his homeland toapply the management skills learnedhere. A student from Rice University iscurrently working in Europe under theexchange plan.

Frank Tolbert, columnist for the Dal-las Morning News and author of anumber of books about Texas and theSouthwest, paid a visit to the SAMHOUSTON recently to gather materialabout the Port of Houston for an articlein his paper. H

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Executive of the leading area wide banks of Japan travelingas the 1963 Local Bankers Team under the sponsorship ofthe Japan Productivity Center visited the Port of Houston aspart of a 35 day trip in the United States visiting nine majnrcities. Shown in the after cabin of the Navigation District’sinspection vessel, the SAM HOUSTON are: (firs! row, left toright) Tetsuyuki Takano, Suruga Bank, Ltd.; Masaharu Ku-bayashi, Sbiga Bank, Ltd.; Shiro Makimura, general manager,Local Banks Association of Japan, Inc.; Sakuro Tsuminura,Hokkaido Bank, Ltd.; (back row) Kazuma Matsukawa, OgakiKyoritsu Bank, Ltd.; Shigeyoshi Ogihara, Bank of Yokohama,Ltd.; Hideo Okano, group leader, Suruga Bank, Ltd.: RenKodama, Shizuoka Bank, Ltd.; Kaznmi Nakayama, Bank ofFukuoka, Ltd.; Ryuichi lhara, Saitama Bank, Ltd.; SozaburoOno, Shicbijushichi Bank, Ltd.: Tamotsu lshihara, Bank ofOsaka, Ltd.; and Toyotaro Kawasumi, Joyo Bank, Ltd.

More than 90 foreign students and Houston Junior Cham-ber of Commerce members saw the Houston Ship Channelfrom aboard the inspection vessel SAM HOUSTON as t~qlestsof the Navigation District on the annua] JayCee Foreign Stu-dents Day. Nations from practically all the free world wererepresented on the trip.

George N. Guthrie, left, and William J. Fey, representativesof Southland Paper, Lufkin, Texas, take time out front over-seeing a shipment of newsprint to South America to view theHouston Ship Channel from aboard the inspection vessel SAMHOUSTON.

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High speed double rigging on aMarcbessini ship speeds cotton loadingat the Port of Houston.

One of the newer Marchessini ships inthe North Atlantic run.

SAILING from the Port of New York in March, 1958, the

S.S. EURYTAN carried with it P. D. Marchessini’s certaintythat application of modern cost accounting and cargo han-dling methods to the cargo liner shipping business wouldresult ill lower costs for the shipper at a fair profit for theship operator.

The forerunner of the Marchessini Lines fleet of modernships especially built for liner service to selected parts ofthe world, the EURYTAN’s voyage down the Atlantic coastand through the Gulf of Mexico picking up cargo for de-livery to the Far East convinced Marchessini that he wasright" and that a "new look" had arrived for the shippingindustry.

Marchessini had been active for more than 40 years as atramp ship operator. Drawing on his experience in the highlycompetitive chartering market, he launched into a length)"and detailed cost analysis, applying modern-day marketingresearch data to the shipping industry.

Armed with the results of the study as his tools, Marches-sini was confident that an independent shipping line could

Modern Methods MakeMarchessini Lines An Important

Carrier To Far East Ports of Call

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Cargo for the Far East being loadedaboard the EURYDAMUS at the

Port of Houston.

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not only operate, grow and prosper, but could still maintaineconomical shipping rates--based on actual cost data. Hereasoned that his system of determining cargo rates left noroom for guess work and could derive each rate systematic-ally pound by pound, foot by foot.

Expansion of the line’s service has been made possible byshippers’ acceptance of Marchessini’s policy of cost basedon actual cargo conditions. The original Marchessini linerroute lay along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to the Far Eastthrough the Panama Canal. It was soon made into two routes,however, one out of the North Atlantic ports and the othersailing from South Atlantic and Gulf ports.

Independent express service to North Europe and GreatBritain from New York was next on the Marehessini expan-sion program and in September, 1962, the Marchessini Lines’house flag began appearing in such major ports of Europeas Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp and London.

The new European service, employing some of the fastestvessels in the shipping industry, expands Marchessini ship-ping points to three-quarters of the distance around the globe.

The Marchessini Lines’ ships have all been especially de-signed for the particular trade route they serve. Truly aninternational operation, the line has its ships built in Ger-many and registered in Greece, Marchessini’s homeland.

The ships all have Greek names and most of them use theprefix "Eury" as part of the name. "Eury" translates intoEnglish with a range of terms connotating large, strong, big,powerful. As an example, the EURYBATES translates aswide-walker and the EURYLOCHUS as extensive power.

Four of the Marchessini vessels, the EURYALUS, theEURYMEDON, the EURYDAMAS and the EURYTAN,operate from Charleston, Jacksonville, Mobile, New Orleans,Galveston and Houston. The direct run from Houston to¥okahama takes 28 days with a round-trip time of from 75to 80 days.

Ships on Marchessini’s Gulf and North Atlantic routes tothe Far East call on ports in Japan, Korea, Formosa, Oki-nawa, the Philippine Islands and Hong Kong. Sailing sched-ules call for a ship to leave Houston every 20 days.

The four ships in the Gulf service were built in 1958 and1959 and have a service speed of 15 knots. They are 490feet long by 62 feet wide and, depending on arrangement,have from 586,000 cubic feet to 600,000 cubic feet in balecapacity. Special features for Gulf service on these vesselsinclude extra wide hatches, deep tanks for small parcel liquidcargoes, and double rigged lift handling equipment on hatchesNo. 2, 3 and 4.

Additionally, each ship has one 25 ton boom and one 15ton boom as well as its regular 10 ton booms. The doublerigging, also a feature on all other Marchessini ships, allowsfaster cargo handling to reduce port time.

Marchessini ships making the North Atlantic run to theFar East are bigger and faster. They measure 543 feet by63 feet with a service speed of 181/2 knots and a bale capacityof 635,000 cubic feet. They also have greater lift capacitywith an additional boom rated at 50 tons, and a special fea-ture is 28,000 cubic feet of refrigerated space and tempera-ture controlled deep tanks.

Named the EURYGENES, the EURYBATES, the EURY.MACHUS, and the EURYLOCHUS, they were built in 1960and 1961. They call at New York, Philadelphia and Balti-more and provide a direct 24-day transit service to Yoko-hama.

The new Marchessini service between New York andEurope will utilize ships of the same type as those in theNew York-Far East run.

As part of the Marchessini Lines "extra" service to ship-pers, each ship carries steel cargo containers that are turnedover to the shipper for loading. This service is free to the

Mount Fuji looms in the background as theEURYLOCHUS anchors off Japan.

shil~per and according to the operators has reduced damageon cargoes carried by Marchessini ships to much less thanone per cent.

E×presshlg the Marchessini belief in the importance ofcontainerization. P. A. Grana. manager of the Marchesslnioffice in Houston. feels that within a decade container ship-merit of cargo will be widely used and that even bulk cargoessuch as rice and [lour x¢.ilI probably be shipped in containers.

In order further to protect the lines’ customers’ interests,Marchessini provides its o~.n stevedoring services whereverpossible, using methods of cargo handling developed by thelines’ study of modern materials handling procedures.

()wncrsl~ip and management of the line is in the handsof the Marchessini family. P. D. Marchessini controlled thefirm from the home office in New York City until he went

Alexander Marchessini, left,P. D. Marchessini, center, andDemetri Marehessini.

The EURYGENES, one of the first Marehessiniships to enter liner service Io Norlb Europe.

Port of Houston seen frontthe bridge of theEURYDAMAS.

into semi-retirement at the beginning of 1963, when actwemanagement passed into the hands of his two sons. DemetriMarchessini took over as president and his younger brother,Alexander. became executive vice-president.

In the four and a half years that the Marehessini Lineshave been in liner service, the eompanv has opened a stringof offices in major ports over the worht. Today offices arclocated in Nm, York. Houston, New Orleans. London, Athens.Hong Kong, Tokyo and Osaka. These offices, plus an exten-sive network of agency representatio|l in every major I[.S.and foreig|l port maintain an efficient coordination of thelines’ activities.

Marchessini believes that not only should the lines’ shipsa,d services be modern in every respect, but that the lines’offices shouht be representative of the company’s up-to-datenwlhods. As a result, office procedures were studied withIIw same thoroughness as ship loading practices and Marches-sini offices all over the ~,orht pride themsehes on beingbright, cheerful and efficient.

Most Marchessini ships have cabin space available forup to live passengers. However, passenger traffic is normallynot solicited by the line.

l+ine officials say they have every reason to believe thatsoon ships tlying tim Marehessini house tlag of red will beas familiar in all ports around the, x~orld as their big blueship funnel star is today in the major ports of the Far F+astand the [!. S. (;ulf and Atlantic ports.

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THE PORT BUREAU TRANSPORTATION library, perhaps un-

surpassed in the Southwest, presents a comprehensive gather-ing of reference material vital to effective representation ofthe Port of Houston. Important in the library’s referencesection are the Interstate Commerce Commission reports,Hawkins Digest and Commerce Hearing House Federal Car-riers Cases; Pike and Fischer reports of Federal MartimeAdministration and Commission decisions, and U. S. SupremeCourt decisions and U. S. Code Annotated. In the cost-statistical section are cost studies, tables and formulae of

rail, motor and water carriers and statistical reportings ofthe commission, Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Census, portsand port associations, etc. Economic, trade, legislative andcommodity data are gleaned from 5 daily and 37 periodicalsources. A~n investigative record of all regulatory proceedingsconcerning Houston’s development and status as a port ismaintained. The Port Bureau library is available to theHouston business community.

INCREASED RAIL CHARGES for soine accessorial services havebeen approved, to varying degree, by traffic executives ofthe nation’s railroads. Approved changes reported thus farin the carriers’ announced intention to obtain more revenuefrom all terminal services accorded shippers, include elimi-nation of the present second free delivery on split-deliveryexport freight and imposition of a 25-cent cwt. charge fortile second through fifth delivery, minimum $10 per de-livery; increase in stop-off charge on shipments for partialload(ng or unloading, to $20 per car in the West and $25per ear in the East; increase of $3 per shipment or per carin present transit charges, except no increase on grain andgrain products, lumber and forest products, coal, coke andpetroleum coke; a $1 increase in present weighing chargesand, in the East only, imposition of a charge of $10.75 forstopping and holding grain cars for official inspection and a$7.50 per car charge when grain doors are provided. Nopublication has yet been made, and the Port Bureau is watch-ing these and related subjects closely.

MARCH, 1963

HOUSTON’S COMMERCIAL ZONE will again include Bay-town, La Porte, Lomax and related Ship Channel industriesunder a favorable ruling of the I.C.C. examiner who heardour petition for restoration of the Houston commercial zoneon December 10. Interstate truck transportation within theentire area thus will return to a drayage basis from the com-mon carrier rates imposed on traffic between Houston andthe Baytown-La Porte area last June when the Houston cor-porate limits were extended by several miles. Also restoredto the Baytown-La Porte area is the full range of commoncarrier truck service of lines serving Houston. No exceptionsto the examiner’s report are anticipated inasmuch as unan-imous support was accorded our petition at the December10 hearing by the respective cities and their commercialinterests, by interested shippers, and by their serving motorcarriers. Concluding his discussion of evidence submitted,Examiner Smith said:

"Altogether, the entire area is, for all practical purposes.one solid industrial complex from Houston to the channelmouth, with Houston its undisputed headquarters. The recordeloquently evidences the closely knit civic, economic, socialand political relationship in the area sufficient, in the ex-aminer’s opinion, to unequivocally establish that Houston andthe area under consideration form a single integral com-munity."

GRAIN RATE REDUCTIONS to the Gulf ports, scheduled tobecome effective on March 1 but now under protest by GreatLakes interests including some of their serving railroads, weredefended by the Port Bureau with other of the Gulf ports.to the I.C.C. Protesting petitioners, if successful in winningI.C.C. suspension of the rates, would maintain present GreatLakes-Gulf rate relationships on flour but at the expense ofGulf railroads’ ability to meet truck competition on grain.

TRUCK DEMURRAGE RULES in tariffs of the motor commoncarriers serving Houston have been either cancelled or madenon-applicable on port traffic, as these carriers and water-front interests adopt a local-level approach to operating prob-lems. Again, however, the Middlewest Motor Freight Bureauin Proposal 141762, considers the publication of uniform andrestrictive tariff rules on accessorial services.

EXPORT-IMPORT RATE EQUALITY with South Atlantic portson rail traffic to and from the Midwest is sought bythe South Florida Ports Freight Rate Equalization Committeein behalf of Miami, Port Everglades, et al. These ports seekthe same rate equality extended to Tampa last September inI.C.C. Docket 32456. The Port Bureau will attend the March26 Chicago public hearing and participate in the inevitableI.C.C. proceeding, in defense of the Gulf’s competitive rateposition.

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A new industrial exhibit area for displaying goods manu-factured in the Southwest for export moves one step neareropening as Gary E. McCalla (center), president of Tec-Produc-tions, Inc., coordinator of the project, studies wiring layoutsof the 4900 square feet ground level exhibit space of theWorld Trade Building with World Trade Center director Ed-ward J. Fay, left, and building manager Kenneth W. Stevens.One section will be occupied by a permanent display by theN.A.S.A. Manned Spacecraft Center which is in Houston.

Stevedores intently watch as a $17,000 Rolls-Royce is loweredfrom tile SUE LYKES at tile Port of Houston. One of a ship-ment of six of the heavy English luxury cars imported by theOverseas Motors Corporation of Ft. Worth and Houston, thenew model Silver Cloud S-3 was manufactured at Crewe, Eng-land, loaded aboard ship at the l,ondon docks, and off-loadedat Houston for transport by truck to dealers in the ten-state areaserved by Overseas Motors. Overseas Motors is also importersand distributors of Jaguar and other British Motor Corporationautomobiles iu the Southwest.

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