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FLORIDA JOURNAL Vol. 8, No. 3 M ARCH, 1966 » F COMMERCE 25* The B ig B u ilde rs PORT EVERGLADES $30,000,000 Bond program is top project in state; includes passen ger terminal; shipyard; new bulkheading; doubling size of the port. MIAMI TERMINAL Huge cruise ship terminal scheduled to start soon; new sheds for roll-on, roll-off already begun; start on 2nd big transit shed before Christmas. JA CKSO N VILLE Sea-Land container ship terminal and Occidental phosphate eleva tor to open in M arch; Port Authority is wrapping up plans for $15- million terminal job. TAM PA BAY New phosphate terminal and railroad plans sprout all over the terrain; at least two should succeed. PEN SACO LA AND PANA M A C IT Y engaged in plans for West Florida port improvements; W ATER W AYS hold center of atten tion at Tallahassee. Only One Step From the New PORT of MIAMI the ONLY Distribution Center for PROXIMITY - REGULAR FREQUENT SAILINGS LOGICAL TRANSSHIPMENT POINT - DOCKSiDE RAIL SERVICE * ARTHUR E. Laz^-MiAMIOW , Director / PORT OF M IAM I J " * “ “ 853 Biscayne Blvd./ Miami, Fla. / 377-5841, Area Code 305 MARITIME February 21. 1966 Construction bids are to be asked in about 90 days on $2,500,000 of new port construction at Pensacola, according to Port Director Phillip Alvarez. Rapid extension of two regular services to Europe by Deppe Line and LATE Cunard Line (see schedules, this issue) has pushed Pensacola export tonnage upward, made enlargement of docks essential. NEWS Jacksonville Port Authority is showing its tentative plans for $15,000,000 of new work at Talleyrand Docks and Terminals to steamship operators, These items will agents, rail and truck lines for suggestions prior to making final drawings and letting contracts, expected about July 1. be reported more Sea-Land Terminal at Jacksonville is nearing completion with huge completely in the PACECO crane for handling containers erected. Ships may begin using berth next issue of about March 1. this publication Cut-off canal from Apalachicola River direct to ports of Port St. Joe and Panama City has been proposed to attract more barge traffic from Tri-River or ‘‘Seafarer" system extending into Georgia. Gulf Tampa Drydock Company is scheduled to launch the Moore-McCormack Lines has contracted with Morrison- 92-ft. Common Entrance during the latter part of February, Knudsen Company to carry out a five year contract to com- ’he largest vessel built in Tampa since World War II, the Com- plete the epic task of transporting the largest movement of tion Entrance is for Narwhal, Ltd., a Bahamian firm which heavy highway construction equipment from the U. S. to Yuri- ilans to use the vessel in inter-island freight. The ship will maguas, Peru, through the dense jungles of Brazil by way of lave a flat bottom and a bow ramp for roll-on, roll-off oper- the treacherous Amazon River and its tributaries. The equip- ilions. Draft is 12 feet. ment will be used to construct a 146-mile highway linking the rich agricultural area in northeastern Peru with the Peruvian Twenty-five additional cargo ships will be reactivated from Pacific coast. The $43,356,000 highway eventually will serve as he nation's reserve fleets on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts for a feeder to the Pan-American highway. In order to get the ransportation of military cargoes to south Viet Nam. The with- equipment there, it is being shipped by ocean freighter to Irawals will make a total of 101 ships reactivated from the re- Belem, Brazil, where it will be transferred to barges and trans- erve fleet since last summer. ported by Moore-McCormack across the width of South Ameri- ca some 2,800 miles. The Andes mountains make it impossible Sea trials for the Oceanographic Survey Ship Oceanogra- to deliver the equipment from the Pacific coast. Each trip from iher (OSS-1) near completion at Jacksonville Shipyards for the U. S. to Peru will take about 45 days. he U. S. Coastal Geodedic Survey, are expected during the After being stranded for four months, the Greek freighter u t t e r part of February or early March. The highly automated Amaryllis, will be partially cut up and floated away from its •essel with complete engine room controls, plus power elec- resting place just North of the entrance to the Port of Palm ronic computers and other scientific gear is the most complex Beach. The ship has been declared a total loss by Lloyds of raft ever built in the State of Florida. Its sister ship, the Dis- London and was recently purchased by S. A. Macintosh of overer (OSS-2), is scheduled for delivery later this year. Miami, who hopes to float the ship after dismantling part of The American Bureau of Shipping at its 104th annual meet- the superstructure. The ship was driven aground by hurricane ing reported that 453 vessels, totaling 2,806,000 gross tons were Betsy last summer. Eller and Company of Port Everglades was juilt to its standards during 1965. Chairman Andrew Neilson agent for the owners. liscussed the continuing increase in size of vessels being de- Hydro Space Research Corporation, a Maryland marine research concern, has opened an office on Dodge Island Sea- igned and constructed and noted that the largest vessel port at Miami. The firm will be based in Miami for its Carib- irdered in the world will be a 1,122 foot tanker with a carrying bean research program, operating a 170-ft. research ship with opacity of 250,000 net weight tons to be built in Japan. a crew of 12 seamen and 20 scientists aboard. Its mission will An electronic data processing program developed with the be to investigate ocean engineering, underwater acoustics and lelp of Arthur D. Little, Inc. has been started by the American hydrodynamics. lureau of Shipping. The program's application to Bureau work Pan-American Cruise Line, Inc., which operates the cruise /ill be in complex machinery and hull calculations and in ship Nili, out of the port of Miami, has appointed Peter Whelpon lata retrieval. as General Manager. LORIDA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE MARCH 1966 1 COUNCIL NOTES By David B. Ducey Executive Director Florida Ports and Foreign Trade Council The Port of Palm Beach acquired a new user last month A comprehensive summary of import licensing and ex when the Palm Beach Post-Times Newspaper received its first change requirements in 120 countries around the world is no\ news print delivery by water through the port. The 750 ton available at U. S. Department of Commerce District offices ii shipment from Cornerbrook, Newfoundland, arrived on the Jacksonville and Miami. The summary appeared in the Janu MS Sarah Bowater, a 519 foot ship owned by the paper com- ary 24 issue of ''International Commerce" magazine publishec pany. by the Department of Commerce. The Port of Palm Beach increased its fees in December A U. S. Trade Show featuring industrial modemizatioi enough to bring in an additional $43,800 revenue annually. equipment will be held at the U. S. Trade Center in Tokyo Mcr Port Manager Joel Wilcox said the Port's charges have not 17 through 27. U. S. firms interested in taking part in the shov been raised since 1955, and were lower than those charged may obtain additional information from the Department c in other South Atlantic ports. The increases were effective Commerce field offices. January 15. A trade show featuring executive aircraft and accessories Collections of customs in the Port of Jacksonville were re- will be conducted at the U. S. Trade Center in London Jun< corded at a record high last year. The total, $10,370,171. It was 14 through 24. Exhibitors may arrange for demonstration flights the first time in the history of the port that receipts have of their aircraft at a nearby London Airport. An intensive mar passed the $10,000,000 mark. During the year another all-time ket development campaign is underway to attract buyers collection mark was set when the March total reached agents and distributors to the show. $1,304,965, highest one-month collection on record. The previ- ous high for a year's collection was set in 1965 with a figure Schmidt and Wium-Anderson Trading and Engineering of $9,117,005. Company of Copenhagen, Denmark is seeking a Florida im porter of wooden shoes and health sandals. Address of th< Walter I. Biedzynsld has been named Southeast Opera- firm at Copenhagen is 85 Gammel Kongevej. tions Manager for Sea-Land Service, Inc., replacing Larry Baker who was transferred to Rotterdam as Sea Land Regional A 10.6% increase in exports and 10.4% increase in import Operating Manager in Europe. is forecast by the National Foreign Trade Council in 1966. Thi Homer Walker has been named Southeast Sales Manager, would result in an increased trade surplus of six hundred mi] succeeding Howard Morris who remains in Jacksonville as lion dollars or 12.5% over the comparable total for 1965. Th Sales Manager for Sea-Land's Puerto Rican service. Before National Foreign Trade Council predicts an overall balance c going to Jacksonville, Biedzynski was Sea-Land terminal man- payment deficit up to $1,200,000,000. ager in Miami. Mexico's burgeoning industrial market will be the targe Capital Film Laboratories, Inc. has opened a $300,000 color of U. S. equipment manufacturers at a U. S. Industrial Equip processing laboratory in Miami to serve the Florida, Caribbean ment Exhibition in Mexico City, August 1-13. The show wi and Latin American trade.