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6 PORTOF HOUSTONMAGAZINE PORT OF HOUSTON

Official Publication Of the Harris CountyHouston Ship ChannelNavigation District

Volume 11 FEBRUARY,1969 No. 2 DirectoryOf Port Commissioners AndStaff FOR THE Houston Is Focal Point For HPI ...... 8

NavigationDistrict Three ’Consulates Post New Officers ...... 12

HOWARDTELLEPSEN, Chairman R. H. PRUETT, Commissioner Scene At The World Trade Club ...... 14 E. H. HENDERSON,Commissioner W. D. HADEN,II, Commissioner FENTRESS BRACEWELL, Commissioner Visitors See The Port of Houston ...... 16 J. P. TURNER,Executive Director GEORaEW. ALTVATER,Deputy Director Houston Leads The Nation In Rail Car Unloadings ...... 17 C. E. BULLOCk:,Director of Port Operations HENRYM. BROADNAX,General Sales Manager J. L. LOCKETT,JR., Counsel Netumar Line Serves ’Houston’s Petrochemical Industry ...... 18 S. B. BRUCE,County Auditor VAUCHNM. BRYANT, Director of International Relations The Houston Port Bureau Reports ...... 20 LLOYDGREGORY, Director o/ Information RICHARDP. LEACH, Director of Engineering &Planning Houston Steamship Agents ...... 29 GENEE. STEWART,Chief Engineer J. R. CURTIS,Terminal Manager K. P. RODEN, Sailing ’Schedule of General Cargo Ships ...... 30 Managerof Grain Elevator W. J. STAGNER,Manager, Storage Warehouses RXCHARDJ. SHmOSKY, Superintendent, Port of Houston Shipping Directory ...... 32 Bulk Materials HandlingPlant J. K. HENDERSON,Controller L. T. FRITSCH,Purchasing Agent A. B. LANDRY,Personnel Managerand World Trade Building Manager THE COVER C. L. SHUt’TRINE,Chief Security O~icer W. E. REDMON,Maintenance Superintendent This month we feature a very young steamship company that has shown T. E. WHATLEY,Administrative Assistant tremendous growth. To find out about the Netumar ’Line see Page, 18. V. D. WILLIAMS,Administrative Assistant SALESOFFICES COWARDP. MOORE, New York District Sales Manager FRANKWARD, Assistant The Port o/ Houston Magazine 25 Broadway, New York, New York HUMVA. HENDERSON,Chicago District TED SUMERLIN, Editor Sales Manager 401 E. Prospect, MountProspect, Illinois Published monthly by the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Naviga- JOHNR. WEILER,Houston District tion District, the PORTOF HOUSTONMagazine is distributed free to maritime, Sales Manager industrial and transportation interests in the United States and foreign coun- C. A. ROUSSER,JR., District Sales Representative tries. This publication is not copyrighted and permission is given for the re- 1519 Capitol Avenue, Houston, Texas production or use of any original material, provided credit is given to the Port of Houston. Additional information, extra copies of the magazine or EXECUTIVE OFFICES advertising rates may be obtained by writing the PORTOF HOUSTON Magazine, 1519 Capitol Avenueat CrawfordStreet Telephone CApitol 5-0671 1401 South Post Oak, Houston, Texas 77027. P. O. Box2562, Houston, Texas 77001 FEBRUARY,1969 7 WILLSPENII $3 BILLIONIN 191;9

BY GEORGE B. GIBBS Editorial Director, Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine

HE LARGESTmanufacturing in- of cquipment used by this industry T dustry in the United States in terms varies all the wayfrom simple piping to of capital expenditures is fhe hydrocar- complicated, esoteric equipment such as bon processing industry (HPI). cyclone separators. The HPI is the manufacturing part of Of just as much importance to the the petroleumindustry, consisting of re- Houston area is the maintenance of ex- fineries, petrochemical plants and nat- isting plants. Maintenance,as a per cent ural gas processing plants. Capital ex- of replacement value, is approximately penditures for these plants in the U.S. 11/2 per cent for U. S. refineries. Petro- will approach $3 billion in 1969. Chemical plants average about 31/2 per The focal point for the hydrocarbon cent. Natural gas processing plants have processing industry is Houston. This is a maintenance cost of less than 1 per because of the large concentration of cent. HPI plants already built and some 27 The stakes are very high for keeping new plants that are under construction. hydrocarbon processing plants running Manyof these vital units are located ou 24 hours a day. It costs almut $1,600 the Houston Ship Channel’s 50-mile- per hour for a 1,000 ton per day am- long, $3 billion-plus industrial complex. monia plant to be shut down. A recent Petroleum refining in the Southwest power failure at a refinery lasted three (Texas Gulf Coast area) amounts and one-half hours and cost $250,000 in over two million barrels per day, which lost products. So, it is not surprising that is 74 per cent of the Texas total and ]9 annual maintenance expenditures in the per cent of the U. S. operating capacity. United States are $1.4 billion just to Twelve major oil companies have gen- keep the plants running. eral headquarters in Houston and eigh- N ADDITION to new capital and teen refineries are operating in the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast area. Imaintenancecosts, the industry could For petrochemicals (chemicals pro- not get along without huge expenditures duced from petroleum), Houston is in for operating material. Exclusive of la- an even more pre-eminent position. At bor costs and capital depreciation, it is least 40 per cent of every basic petro- expected that $21.2 billion will be spent chemical produced in the United States in the U. S. as operating costs. comes from Houston and for some prod- Because of the industry’s need of its ucts, such as synthetic rubber, this re- own raw materials and by-products for gion produces as muchas 80 per cent. certain essential processes, a heavy per- Two-thirds of the nation’s ethylene is centage of crude oil and petrochemical produced here. feedstocks will be captive and not avail- able for purchase on the open market. HE COSTof equipment to supply Table 3 details the refining requirements Tthis industry amounts to about for chemicals and catalysts, one of the $140,000 per man in the HPI. This is important elements in operating costs. nine times greater than the average of Although the hydrocarbon processing all manufacturing industry and is more industry is the supplier of most of the than four times greater than the next energy in t’he U.S., it also accounts for ranking industry--chemicals. The type 271/e per cent of all fuels and electric 8 PORT OF HOUSTONMAGAZINE power consumed by the manufacturing be tolerated by the industry--and it is industry. In addition, the HPI generates the primary result of strong demand 15 per cent of all plant-generated power. rather than any slowdown in any new Looking at the entire manufacturing in- refinery construction. During the next dustry, the HPIis the largest single mar- ten years plans call for the installation ket for electric energy and fuels in the of refining units that will add approxi- United States. mately 2 million barrels per day capac- What ties refineries, petrochemical ity. Outside the U. S. A., the growth plants and natural gas processing plants will be even greater. together is that they are very similar in From two to three years are required design and construction. The refineries, to plan, construct, and put onstream (in petrochemical and natural gas process- production) additional capacity. The ing plants all perform the same basic large oil and chemical companies are function--processing of oil or gas to diw~rsifying to an extent not contem- manufacture fuels and chemical prod- plated even five years ago. Entry into nets. the marketing of liquefied petroleuln gas All three types of plants derive their and the manufacture of petrochemicals raw materials from petroleum resources, arc generally the first steps of these com- wit’h refineries and petrochemical plants panies’ diversification programs. sending feedstocks back and forth to These fields are natural growth areas each other. They are similar in raw ma- for the HPIbecause of the raw materials terials, processes and operations, equip- involved as by-products of other process- ment, personnel and organization. In ing steps. Both of these areas are grow- fact, the most highly developedapplica- ing more rapidly than the parent indus- tion of this idea is in Houston,where the tries, with annual gains of 8-10 per cent tie-in, interdependence and relationship in revenues expected to continue well of these plants has been called the "spa- into the future. ghetti bowl." Certain fundamental unit operations HE PETROCHEMICALindustry are characteristic, such as the principles T demandsextremely heavy outlays in of fluid flow, heat transfer, reaction ki- capital for new plant construction. This netics, process control and others. These is a proven medium for investors of principles are used in the selection of substantial capital funds. equipment such as pumps, pipes, valves, Agricuhural chemicals have also been vessels, heat exchangers,reactors, instru- a very important area of expansion, with ments and manyother items. manyold-line (ompanies in this field having been acquired by mergers. This AS ANDOIL will continue to fur- has caused the HPI to develop other Gnis’h most of the world’s energy mineral resources, particnlarly sulfur, needs well into the next century. Even potash, and phosphate. more capacity will he required of refin- Perhaps the most striking diversifica- eries in the years ahead to fulfill the tion move in recent years by the HPI growing energy demands. Refining runs has been in the coal industry, primarily are catching up to refining capacity. by means of several large mergers. The Overcapacity is nowaround 5.4 per cent most important attraction here is the as opposedto 16.7 per cent in 1962. huge reserve position enjoyed by the A refining unit is being loaded for export. This margin is about as low as can coal industry and the potential for de- riving fuels and chemicals from coal by means of one vast HPI processing com- plex. Growth in the industry has hecn especially rapid for the past( few years as electric utilities stepped up their pur- chases. Further mergers are anticipated and it is expected that HPI companies will soon be the principal producers of coal. The hydrocarbon processing industry is truly international. There are ahont 3,400 HPI plants in the Free World. Up until 1958, the U.S. refined more than half of the petroleum products. Now, countries outside the U. S. refine twice the amount of petroleum as does the U.S. At present, the U. S. has a 65 per cent share of total natural gas sales. The U. S. is also predominantin petrochemi- cals. However,both natural gas process- ing and petrochemicals are growing This 12,000 pound unit for a petrochemical plant was shipped to Europe by a major oil company. faster outside the U. S. and will soon FEBRUARY,1969 A few of the majorparts for a refinery arrive at the Port of Houston.

be in the same position as refining is Total capital expenditures in refining installation of pollution control systems, now. Here are trends to watch in a dy- for 1969 in the Free World will be $2.6 has somewhat offset the wave-like pat- namic industry throughout the world. billion. The United States will account tern of the U. S. refining industry’s new for eight-tenths of a billion dollars which process technology which heretofore has IIOWTH IN crude oil refining come every 5-6 years. However, the fast- Gthroughout the world continues at represents a 3-4 per cent growth rate. Processes employing thermal operations est growing downstream processes will a fairly steady pace. The countries lead- continue to be hydrocraeking and cata- ing in refinery expansion are , increase as a function of crude oil charg- lytic hydrogen treating. Because of this, Germany, Japan, , the ing capacity and therefore follow these the construction of ’hydrogen units will growth rates. However, in the United , and the United States. soar. Each makes an average yearly addition States, a fabulous corollary market ex- Outside the United States the $1.8 of approximately 200,000 daily barrels ists because of the installation of down- stream processing units, or industries billion to be spent will go mostly for in capacity. Yet percentage growth for refinery enlargement. Certain areas of these countries varies widely because of which make further use of the oil refineries’ basic products. the world, such as Canada and Europe tile differing sizes of their refining in- have embarked on the construction of At the present time, the pressing need dustries. Actually, the average world- vast superhighway networks which will for newer and more modern units to re- wide growth rate in refining is about 7 inevitably create a demand for the main competitive, and the widespread per cent per year. larger U. S. type automobile which in turn will require high octane gasoline. Engineering and Construction of New HPI Units in Houston Area* Petrochemical growt’h rates in the United States have been spectacular-- PLANT SITE PROJECT COMPANY averaging 10 per cent in recent years. Alamo Polymer Pasadena Polypropylene Petrochemicals now account for 36 per American Oil Texas City Expandrefinery; sulfuric acid cent of the total chemical output and AmocoChemicals Texas City Styrene monomer; polybutene Celanese Chemical Clear Lake City Ethylene oxide; ethylene glycol surpass 58.I million tons per year. Sales Coastal States Gas Producing Houston LPGFractionatlon have passed the $10 billion mark and Crown Central Houston Expandrefinery; crude units; fluid cat cracker; exceed 63 per cent of total chemical catalytic Reformer; delayed coker; electric sales. Outside the U. S. growth rates desalter Dow Chemical Freeport Expandethylene, light hydrocarbon Plant No. 6 have averaged much higher and, in most Enjay Chemical Baytown Polypropylene Resin cases, about twice our domestic growth. FMC Bayport Synthetic glycerin Demand for petrochemicals world-wide GAF Corp. Texas City Acetylene chemicals in the next 10 to 15 years ~hould qua- Gulf Oil Mont Belvieu Expand LPG fractionating; CO2 removal; Merox; depropanizing; expand storage druple. J. M. Huber Baytown Carbon black Humble Oil & Refining Baytown Catalytic reforming; electric desalter; hydro- YNTHETICdetergents, coatings and finer Unit #4 Srubber have already captured over Conroe Revampgas processing Clear Lake Revampgas processing; fractlonation 50 per cent of the market. Synthetic Tomball Revampgas processing fibers have made substantial inroads in Katy Revampgas processing the replacement of natural fibers. Plastic Marathon Oil Texas City Expandcat reforming; expand treating Monsanto Texas City Expand HD polyethylene uses, fantastic as their growth may seem, National PetrochemicalsCorp. Houston Expand polyethylene have resulted from only modest appli- Oxirane Chemical Bayport Propylene oxide; plant offsites cations in vehicles, appliances, packag- Pan Am Gas Texas City Gas processing Petro-Tex Chemical Houston Chloroprene monomer; neoprene ing and many other smaller applications Phillips Petroleum Houston Polyethylene(particle form) associated with increasing standard of Premier PetrochemicalsCo. Pasadena Melamine Shell Chemical Houston Ethylene living in developed countries. Shell Oil Houston Sour water tripper revision; electric desalter; By 1980, we can expect world plastics’ OP-II offsltes; hydrocracker;hydrogen manu- consumption to he over six times the facturing; catalytic reformer; saturates gas plant present rate; synthetic rubber should ex- Signal Oil & Gas Co. Houston Distillate hydrotreater ceed present production by three times Sinclair Oil & Gas Houston Delayed coker and synthetic fibers s’hould be more Sinclair Petrochemicals Channelview Isophthalic acid; metaxylene United Gas Houston Hydrogen than twice the present consumption. An- USI-NationalDistillers Houston Vinyl acetate other really large growth area for petro- * HydrocarbonProcessing, "Construction Boxscore," February 1969. chemicals is fertilizers. Here the base is 10 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE larger, and 1980 should see plant nu- trients being producedin excess of three times the 1965 level of 36.6 tons an- nually. Petrochemicals represent the largest segment of HPI capital expenditures, of which about half will be spent in the United States. In 1969, total Free World capital expenditures are estimated at $3.8 billion. In the 1970 to 1975 period this is expected to increase to a yearly averageof $4.4 billion. ITHIN THE next ten years the WUnited States’ share of the natural gas sales will drop from 65 per cent of the world total to around 50 per cent. This doesn’t indicate a decline in the importance of natural gas in the U. S. but rather the immensegains in natural gas usage all over the world. American gas sales will increase at a healthy 5 per cent while the rest of the world will be experiencing a gain three times that of t’he UnitedStates. Thisbig tankwill be usedin a refinery beingconstructed in SouthAmerica. Natural gas liquids will continue to become a prime by-product of natural play an important role in the world’s play an important role in the industry’s gas processing. Onceonly an objection. energy market. About 10 per cm~t of expansion. 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FEBRUARY,1969 11 TI IREE CONSULATES

GreatBritain Sends VeteranTo Head BigOffice Here

The Hon. A. J. W. Hockenhull, O.B.E., has assumed his new duties as Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul General in Houslon, succeeding the Hon. Gerald Simpson, who has returned to the For- eign Office in London after three and a half years as consul general here. A veteran of the Britis~h Overseas Office since 1936, Mr. Hockenhull brings to his Houston post a vast experience in foreign service which has seen ]aim in posls in China, Southeast Asia, the Mid- die East and South America. Here he will head the largest foreign eonsulate general in the Southwest, with jurisdie- Britain’s new consul general was introduced to Houstonians at a reception in the World Trade Club last month shortly after his arrival. Here, at left, he is shownreceiving a floral arrangementof tion in Texas and Oklahoma, and in the British Union Jack from H. R. Matrisciani, president of the World Trade Club. Caddo and Bossier parishes (Shreveport area) in Louisiana. Consul General Hoekenhull said his o[ industrialists in Britain and became wilh a total of some $73 million in 1967 chief task in the Houston office will be "enthusiastic over what they told me of against imports of $13 million. Much to stimulate British exports into the Houston and the Southwest. I certa!nly of the tonnage concerned in British ex- Southwest, and his office has a busy and must say that I find it measures up. ports to Houston were in iron and steel, active staff working constantly toward The new consul general cited the close farm machinery, automobiles and other this end. It maintains trade specialists economic as x~cll as political ties which w’hicles. in the Consulate General in Houston link the United Kingdom and the United The new British consul general was and also has a trade development office States. There is a slight imbalance in educated at Clifton College and at Ox- in Dallas. trade against the U.K. of $200 million, ford Uniw~rsity where he obtained an The United Kingdom is one of the with approximately $800 million being Honours Degree in Law and a Master chief trading partners of the Port of bought from the b.S. and British ex- of Arts. He went directly into the Over- Houston (others arc Japan, West Ger- ports to this country totalling about seas Service and a good deal of his many, The Netherlands and ) $600 million. care, er was spent in Southeast Asia. Dur- ing World War I[ he was imprisoned in and in 1966 exported nearly $10 million "For us to prevail we mnst develop a Singapore by the Japanese from 1942-45. in goods through the Port, weighing better share of the [-.S. market and this He continued to serve principally the will in turn provide a better market for 652.000 tons. More than one-fourth of Southeast Asia area afterward, but in the U.S. in Britain and insure a better this was in spirits, principally Scotch addition was also posted to the Middle return there on U.S. investment capital," whiskey. East and to what is now Guyana on the he said. It is earning more dollars here in north coast of South America. "I find Houston and the Southwest a which Britain is interested, and a Mr. Hockenhull’s last post was in dynamic and expanding environment in steadily growing market is being found Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he was which to live and look forward to my Counsellor in the British High Commis- in the Southwest for her automobiles, work in assisting British exporters to get precision machinery, highly manu- sion and Director of British Information their full and fair share of this rapidly Services. He was made an Officer of the factured products, textiles, steel and expanding market", he added. Order of the British Fmpire (O.B.E.) other speciahies of the United King- "During my stay in London I gained I]le New Year’s Honours List of Queen dom’s humming industries. the impression the British economy is on Elizabeth II published in January, i966. Mr. Hockenhull spent two months in the up and up and very skillfully con- The Hockenhulls have two daughters, London preparatory to coming to Hous- trolled". aged 9 and 11, who are in school in ton and after leaving his former post. Houston’s exports to the United King- England but will join their parents in During that time he talked to a number dom out-valued the imports brought in Houston during vacations. 12 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE POST OFFICERS InternationalTrade ExpertIs Named DanishConsul King Frederick IX of has appoinled Paul B. Hansen of Wilson Industries. Inc., the Honorary Danish RepresentativeFrom Consul for the Houston area. He suc- ceeds Bernhard Daugbjerg who had held the post for more. than a dozen PanamaIs Related years before retiring. Hansen’s appointment was announced To TwoPresidents by King Frederick on September 16, 1968, arrd he was officially recognized Panamfi’s new corrsul general In Hous- by the United States as the Houston ton, Texas, is the great grand-niece of Consul ~,hen his appointment papers re- the founder (1903) and first presidenl ceived the approval and signature of of the Isthmian republic, Dr. Manuel President Johnson and Secretary of Amador Guerrero. State Rusk on October 22. She is Maria Ehrman-Lefevre and "It is a great honor to represent Den- sire assumed her consular general duties mark here in Houslon," said Hansen. "l January 8. look forward to many challenges and A striking and affable woman, sire rewards serving as the Danish Consul. also is the niece of another Panamanian "One of mv many duties as Consul president of the 1930’s, Ernesto T. will be to furtl~er dewdop tire wholesome Lefevre, her mother’s brother. relationship between Denmark and the The new consul general was named local government here," said Hansen. Panamd’s new consul general, Maria Ehrman- after the wife of Dr. Guerrero, Maria Lefevre, is shownhere in the Consulate General de la Ossa, considered by Panamanians "Also, another duty will be to certify flanked by the country’s coat of arms. official papers for Danish citizens visit- as the "Martha Washington" of their ing this eounlry, and to issue passports country. to Danish citizens in tire Houston area Mrs. Ehrman-Lefevre attended the wishing to visit their homeland." Colegio Mada hnmaculada Concepcior~ Other duties of the Consul include in Panamfi, attended school in Bahb protecting interests of the Danish citi- more, Maryland, and finished her studies zens ill the Houston area; certifying the at the Sorbonne in Paris. log books of Danish merchant vessels Following her marriage, she joined when necessary; and authorizing pas- the Panamanian Diplomatic Corps in sage home for Danish citizens who 1947. One of her first assignments was qualify for such authorization. as attache to the Panamanian delegation A native of Ronne, Denmark, Hansen to France. Later she served as secretary completed Iris formal education in Den- to the Panamanian Embassy in Paris. mark. He served as a British para- Her next diplomatic post was as con- trooper during World War II and after sul general to Le Havre, France. She the war became an export manager for then served as consul general in Beirut, a Swedish company in South America. Lebanon, and in IstanbuI, Turkey. be- A naturalized citizen of the United fore assuming her present post in Hous- States for many years, Hansen joined ton. Wilson Industries in 1959 as a regional In addition to speaking Spanish and exl)ort manager. Then in 1964 he was English, sire is fluent in French and promoled to his present position as man- Italian, and has, she says, a "smattering" ager of international operations. of Arabic and Turkish. Houston enjoys a healthy trade with A frequent visitor to the United Stah’s Denmark and in recent years there has (she has relatives in New 5’ork and been a striking increase in furniture Washington, D.C.), she also took every exports [rom that Scandinavian country opportunity to visit other countries while to Houston, where several Danish fur- serving in her European posts. niture stores now thrive where there Mrs. Erhman-Lefevrc voiced her de- were none a decade ago. The Danish sire to add to the friendly relations United Steamship Company is a regular existing between the two countries and caller at the Port of Houston, and sev- Paul B. Hansen, Denmark’snew honorary consul in Houston, is shownin the consulate offices to furt’her help in strengthening trade eral other steamship lines also link standing by a Danish flag with a photograph in through the Port of Houston gatewa~f Houston and the Port of . the backgroundof King Frederick IX of Denmark. and other Texas areas of commerce. FEBRUARY,1969 13 Long before the Swedish training vessel HSWMSALVSNABBEN called at the Port of Houston in mid-February, plans were underway for her reception and for entertaining her 40 officers, 30 chief petty officers, 65 cadets and 115 ratings. Shownhere in the World Trade Club going over someof these plans are ’s Consul General, Tore Hoegstedt, and Lt. F. M. Turbeville, USN,of the NROTC Unit at Rice University who was the Navy’s \ project officer for the visit.

A recent visitor at the World Trade Club was Carl Wischmann,left, managerof dry cargo chartering for Victory Carriers, Inc., of New York, part of the Onassls shipping interests. He is seen here in front of a ship modelfrom his native with Raul Camara, managerof the marine division in Houstonof A. J. Fritz & Co.

Noel Hemmendinger,legal counsel to the United States--Japan Trade Council and a veteran with the U.S. Department of State and Justice, was guest speaker of the World Trade Club at its monthly meeting in January. He is shownin the photo at left flanked by Houstonattorneys William B. Dazey, left, and E. E. "Pat" Murphy, who was program chairman. In the photo below, Hemmendlnger is shown with prominent membersof Houston’s Japanesebus|ness colony. From left are Koichl Ueda, JapaneseConsul; K. Shlraki, C. Itoh & Co.; M. Enoki, Mistui & Co.; Arao Ohta, Japan’s consul general in Houston; T. Hashimoto, Marubeni-lida Ca., and T. Oda, Nissho-lwai Co.

14 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE SCENEAT THE WORLDTRADE CLUB

This authentic mannequinfrom the Belgian exhibit at Hemisfair literally stole the showlast month at the World Trade Club’s Benelux Night in which the Club honored the Low Coun- tries of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The costume dates from the 16th century and is worn even today during Carnival celebrations in Belgium. It purports to be the idea of the 16th century Belgian as to what the Aztec and Inca Indians of Mexico and looked like, based on reports brought homeby Belgian sailors. Here B. Wayne White, left, chairman of the Benelux Night, and F. A. Hoefer, right, consul general of The Netherlands, look over the figure as Belgian Consul General HermanMatsaert explains someof the details.

Lunching at the World Trade Club last month with the Port of Houston’sDistrict Sales Manager, John R. Weiler, left, were two unrelated Ryans. Right is JamesT. Ryan, regional managerof the Toyota Motors Distributors, Inc., and in the middle is Charles R. Ryan, a veteran of the steamship business who is now traffic coordinator of the Houston division of the far-flung Flour Corporation, Ltd.

More than two dozen British manufacturers of sporting goods and related equipment participated in Houston’s National Sports Show this month in the huge Astrohall adjacent to the DomedStadium. The British government co- operated with the manufacturers as a co-sponsor and E. A. Pyne, left, of the Exhibition Division of the Central Offlce of Information in Londonwas on hand to assist. He is seen here in the World Trade Club with AndrewKettles, British Consul in Houston.

Swedish engineer and port planner Lars-Ake Jondell, center, was in Houstonlast month to study container operations and port facilities, as part of an extensive tour of ports all over the world in connection with planning concepts he is doing for ports in England, northern Europe and Sweden. He visited and discussed railroad freight rates while here with William Fincher, right, managerof the Houston Port Bureau, and James Cashen, the Bureau’s transportation analyst.

FEBRUARY,1969 15 Visitors See Port of HoustonFrom the SamHouston

Recent guests aboard the Port of Houston’s in- ! spection vessel SAMHOUSTON were these Na- tional Assemblymen from South Korea. From the left, WonKook Lee, Legislative Counsel; ChoonHa Ye, chairman, and Won Young Song, New Demo- cratic Party Spokesman. All are membersof the National Assembly’s Commerceand Industry Com- mittee. On the right is Joel M. Lambert of the Gulf Oil Corporation. The group presently is on a world tour under the auspices of Gulf.

Presbyterian ministers from throughout Texas and the Southwest visited Houston industry last month as membersof the Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations, and while here viewed the multi-billion industrial complexalong the Ship Channel from the SAM HOUSTON. They are shown here on the bow of the vessel with their Houston host, the Rev. Taft Lyon, foreground in clerical collar, pastor of the Trinity Presbyterian Church and active in the church’s ministry to seamen visiting the Port of Houston.

F. Val Thompson,llne manager with Biehl and Company,and Mrs. Thompson,left, were hosts for a trip aboard the SAMHOUSTON to Miss Elly P. Lopez, second from left, office managerof Granel, S.A., exporters of grain, resins and other raw products, based in Mexico City. At right is Miss Jere Thompson, Mr. Thompson’s niece, also of Mexico City.

The Port of Houston’s inspection vessel SAM HOUSTONis collecting an impressive array of plaques from various groups of military and naval personnel from all over the world which have madetrips aboard. The most recent was from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Wash- ington, D.C., and here Chief Engineer Ozro Sheppardis shownhanging it in the vessel’s after salon. Just below, partially visible is a plaque from the Imperial Defence College in London and to the right, not visible, a plaque from the N.A.T.O. Defense College in Rome.

16 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE Boxcars are linedup at thePublic Grain Elevator where inland grain will be unloadedfor export.

HIIUSTHN LEAHSTHE NATIHN IN BAILtlHMI EARSUNLIIAHEH

The Port of Houston led the nation in rail ear unloadings in 1968 showing only a 2 per cent increase over 1967 and in 1968 with a total of 84,345 cars handled, a report by the unloading 69,803 cars. The vast majority of these ears, or Car Service Division of the Association of American Railroads 52,199, carried general cargo and the port showed a 30 per has revealed. cent drop of some 1,689 cars in grain unloaded. This was an increase of 2A,151 cars, or 14 per cent, over Mobile was another Gulf Coast leader with 33,903 cars for 1967. and was largely due to greatly increased grain ship- a 9 per cent increase, nearly two thirds of the cars carrying mcnts. Of the Houston total, 55,523 cars unloaded contained general cargo. grain, an increase of 69 per cent over the 32,899 cars un- On the Atlantic Coast, New York was the leader with 56,067 loaded in 1967. cars unloaded for a 13 per cent drop under 1967, all of the Tampa was second in the nation in car unloadings with cars handling general cargo. San Francisco led fhe Pacific 76,631 cars, of which 75,306 cars were bulk carriers. This Coast ports with 45,217 cars unloaded, all but 639 of them was a jump of 23 per cent over 1967. carrying general cargo. This was a 2 per cent increase over New Orleans, a traditional leader, was tllird in the nation 1967.

Pre-formedpipe to beused in the constructionof an oil refineryis unloadeddirect from rail carto ship.

FEBRUARY,1969 17 From The Headwaters of The Amazon NE TUMA R LINE GROWS

To Serve Houston’s Petroehemieal lndustrg

Some 10 years ago the Amazon Val- they did--with new, modern ships and ley, whose reaches drain as much land modern technical facilities. as the entire continental United States, The three men were Dr. Ariosto M. was still an isolated jungle, hiding riches Amado, Dr. Jose Carlos Leal and Walter along its vast river unimagined by the Gainsbury. The company they created outside world. was the Netumar Line. There were no nlodern means of wa- They reduced the shipping time from ter transportation, with only the most Santos on the Atlantic coast of Brazil to obsolete system of navigation available. Manaus, from 40 days to 12 days on this There were no scheduled arrivals and most difficult and extensive route. Op- departures, no guarantee of safe arrival, erating without subsidies of any kind, no way of transporting sizeable quanti- they took pride in being an entirely pri- ties of the raw materials so abundant in vate enterprise. PORT CAPTAIN BRULAND Brazil’s fabulous AmazonRiver country. The company’s first goal accom- Then three enterprising businessmen plished, Netumar extended its obviously with sharp insight into the potential of efficient services to the south, beginning to its fleet and continued to exert all the huge, untapped wealth just waiting operations to Argentine ports, lowering its efforts and know-how in maintaining development decided to create a ship- freight costs and opening new markets and upgrading its fast, reliable services. ping company which, if they had their for the Amazon’sjute fibre, lumber, rub- Now, a decade later, the AmazonVal- way, would break all shipping records ber and other products. ley is shipping 86 per cent of its pro- in Amazon cargo transportation. This To do this Netumar added new units duction out of this South American bonanza-land with Netumar and bring- ing in three-fourths of all its capital and consumer goods on the same line. When the Netumar maritime firm be- gan its operations in 1958, it had two small, though modern, vessels. But from 1960 on it has expanded its fleet each year, with the company’s highly quali- fied technical personnel exercising per- manent vigilance over the efficiency of the ships, overhauling them periodically and insuring maintenance to meet the highest standards of the International Classification Societies. In 1967 the Brazilian Federal Govern- ment changed its policies on overseas service and appointed Netumar, by now first among Brazilian coastwise shipping companies, to perform Brazilian trans- portation to and from foreign countries in combination with the government controlled Lloyd Brasileiro Line. In this new service the first Brazilian The VINCITA takes on a cargo at Baytown. vessel--a Netumar ship--left Canada 18 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE most important terminal for these pet- rochemical operations, certainly in Texas and the U.S. Gulf. Now, with the two vessels, VENTURAand VINCITA, the Brazilian line offers monthlysailings from the United States to the Caribbean and South American ports to all inter- ested petrochemical shippers. Because of the promineneeof the Port of Houstonin petrochemicals,officials of the NetumarLine have decided to estab- lish their ownport captain in Houston. He is Captain Bjarne Bruland, formerly master of the M/T VINCITAwho has many years of experience in this spe- cialized petrochemical trade. The offices for Netumar’sport captain are planned to be in operation by March of this year. Captain Bruland will work in coordination with Texas Transport & The VARVARA moves up the Houston Ship Channel. Terminal Co., Inc., general agents for the maritime firm in the U.S. Gulf. November29, 1967, thus beginning its ing such multi-grade carriers, having its profitable Brazil/U.S.A./Canada route. vessels chartered to manydifferent com- Its efficiency was immediately recog- panies abroad over the years. Solvent is being unloaded at Santos direct to nized and supported by international The Port of Houston is probably the tank trucks. shippers. In order to fulfill its new shipping role Netumar purchased two 12,000 d.w.t, vessels and contracted for eight more, four of them 7,000 d.w.t, ships and four others of 12,000 d.w.t, with 23 knot service speeds. Today Netumar operates around 23 ships, either ownedor chartered, and 10 of these are in the Brazil/U.S.A./Can- ada trade with sailings every 12 days. The surge in the petrochemical indus- try in recent years, with its large num- ber of new products and its correspond- ing expansion, promoted Netumar Line to take advantage of the increased de- mandfor more specialized tonnage. To do this the companyestablished its pet- rochemical trade service in 1965, which calls at Houston. Netumar first acquired the M/T VINCITA’sservices from its owners, Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen & Companyof Oslo, Norway, for use in transporting the petrochemical industry’s products in the vessel’s 47 fully coated and heated tanks. Recently Netumar put into operation t’he M/T VENTURA,also owned by the Norwegian firm and recently converted to meet the requirements for safe and efficient handling of the very sensitive petrochemicals and solvents nowin use. The 20,000 d.w.t, vessel has 34 coated tanks with heating coils and two addi- tional stainless steel tanks on deck, each divided into three compartments of ap- proximately 100 cubic meters. Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen & Company has manyyears of experience in operat-

FEBRUARY,1969 19 THE INTERSTATE COMMERCECOMMISSION has THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, upon decided, upon reconsideration, to allow request of interested parties, has further motor carriers to maintain separate rates postponed the date for commencing hear- on the generic pipe and machinery group ings in I&S Docket 8419, Rules Governing on commodities that are not to be used in Average Demurrage Agreement, (proposed re- the oilfield industry. The amended matter quirement for two demurrage credits to dates back, in part, to the Commission’s offset a single debit), to January 27, in decision in MC-C-1891, (300 ICC 409), 1957. Washington, D.C. before Examiner Robert N. The Commission, in the aforementioned Burchmore. It was felt by all parties that order, had prescribed minimum reasonable this postponement would do much to al- distance rate scales applicable upon oil- leviate problems of securing hotel space, field commodities which were divided into etc. during the inauguration of President two broad groups, pipe and machinery Nixon. The railroads also voluntarily ex- and embraced hundreds of items including tended the proposed effective date of this many of which have a variety of uses in suspended rule to September 25, 1969. other industries. The Commission had stated that it did not encourage commodity descriptions based upon use but that often that was the only practicable way to authorize a carrier to render a complete COMMISSIONER VIRGINIA MAE BROWN, the service in a specialized line of transpor- first and only woman to serve on the Inter- tation, and at the same time restrict it to state Commerce Commission, has been elected that particular field. The Commission said Chairman of the Commission for the year the record established that there is a 1969. Commissioner George M. Stafford was substantial volume of general commodity named Vice-Chairman. The I.C.C. also an- traffic unrelated to the oil industry nounces the following assignment of Com- subject to the minimum rate order because missions to Divisions and Committees those articles are named in the oilfield for 1969: hauler’s list of oilfield commodities in both the "machinery" and "pipe" groups. It DIVISIONS further stated that since the non-oilfield DIVISION ONE --Commissioners traffic affected by this order could not (Operating Rights) Rupert L. Murphy be handled under the oilfield hauler (Chairman) Paul certificated authority this could have Tierney and Dale little effect on that rate structure. W. Hardin DIVISION TWO --Commissioners THE BUREAU OF ECONOMICS of the Interstate (Rates & Practices) Laurence K. Wal- Commerce Commission has just issued ruth (Chairman) statistics which cover reports filed with John W. Bush and the Commission in Docket 34364, (containers Wallace R. Burke 20 feet or more in length). The figures DIVISION THREE --Commissioners indicate approximate decreases for the (Finance) Kenneth H. Tuggle year 1967 as compared with the all-time (Chairman) Willard high year of 1966 as follows: rail--4.6 Deason and George percent; motor--12.8 percent; forwarder-- M. Stafford 9.3 percent; and water--26.9 percent. The railroads terminated 140,226 containers COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS in 1967; the motor carriers 53,350; the LEGISLATION--Virginia Mae Brown (as ex forwarders, 14,307; and the water carriers, 49,079. It is interesting to note that officio Chairman) George M. while the total piggyback traffic (trailers Stafford and Dale W. Hardin and containers) showed an increase by both RULES --Virginia Mae Brown (as ex railroad and forwarder, the number of officio Chairman) George M. container units handled in each case in- Stafford and Wallace R. dicated a decrease. Burke 2O PORT OF HOUSTONMAGAZINE