The News Tribune Tacoma, Fri., July 9, 1976 B-17, -Anchorage DaHy News, Thursday, July , ======~a~~======~======~ 22 1976 ---- Brochure continued from previous page. acoma Tide turns tnward Officials still OFFICES TRADEWINDS TarE at Anchorage United States optimistic rfor Anchorage, Alaska 'ANCHORAGE, Alaska­ Atlanta, Georgia TOTE's move from Seattle to Chestnut Hill, MassacflUsetts Tacoma has helped the trailer- · • New York, New York ' ship firm increase its foothold in port expansion Washington, D.C. the lucrative trade between Seattle, Washington By petroleum dock. McKinney Puget Sound country and this ANDY WILLIAMS San Juan, Puerto Rico bustling city on Alaska's Cook Daily News Staff Writer said this leaves no place for Despite rejection by city tankers to tie up. Europe & Africa Inlet. voters and the governor, Port McKinney said the port can­ That was the word from Algiers, Algeria of Anchorage officials are still not give preferential docking Kasane, Botswana Anchorage-based officials of To­ hopeful they can get the funds rights to any ships but that the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia tem Ocean Trailer Express to expand port facilities. Federal Maritime Com­ (TOTE) during a nine-hour Port Director Bill McKinney mission is expected soon to Libreville, Gabon layover of the trailership Great said Tuesday he hopes to per­ allow the port to give preferen­ Nairobi, Kenya Land. suade the m uni'Cipal tial scheduling to Tote at Ter· Tananarive, Malagasy These people should know what administration to place the minal 1 and the petroleum Rabat, Morocco they're talking about. They're on the $5.4 million bond issue rejected dock and to Sea-Land at Ter­ Lagos, Nigeria firing line, dealing daily with custom­ by the voters last April back on minal 2. Without the expan­ Warsaw, Poland ers receiving just about everything the ballot in October. sion, a Tote ship or tanker from perishable foods and household Ouagadougou, Upper Volta AND GOV. JayS. Hammond could not tie up while the other Skopje, Yugoslavia goods to badly needed construction said he would recommend was in the port, he said. supplies and equipment. general fund appropriations McKINNEY SAID a $4 Middle East A delay of a few hours on one sailing for priority projects in the $30.5 million construction project to Cairo, Egypt can cost TOTE getting some of this million bond proposal for ports be completed in September cargo for the next sailings. That's why Tehran, Iran and harbors he vetoed after the would extend Terminal3 to 540 faster ship loadings in Tacoma, even legislative session. The bond feet and allow room for one Amman, Jordan though that city is more than an hour's Riyadh, Saudi Arabia steaming time south of Seattle, are proposal contained about $3.5 more dry-cargo ship to dock helping turn the tide toward TOTE in . million for a.Port of Anchorage when Sea-Land and a tanker Asia Alaska. expansion . were in. But it wouldn't change Seoul, Korea And helping TOTE's two trailerships McKinney said both the the situation regarding Tote, Tarbela Da m Colony, Pakistan municipal bond issue and mat­ he said. run with the tide. A few hours' delay Man ila. Philippines getting out of Puget Sound can delay ching funds from the state or The port director said the 790 by a full day the delivery of goods at federal government were - foot - long Tote ships can South & Central America Anchorage due to those tidal restric­ needed for the port expansion. carry over - sized containers Belo Horizonte, Brazil tions here. · "Without a federal grant or a that can be rolled on and off. Vitoria, Brazil state grant, we would have a Sea-Land ships, which Tegucigalpa, Honduras "EVERYONE UP HERE is sure serio\ls problem even with the average 523 feet long, can only pleased with the performance in G.O. (general obligation) bon· carry cargo that can be fitted Caracas, Venezuela Tacoma," said Howard Acton, vice ~."hesaid . on 35 or 40-foot containers. president of TOTJ's Alaska opera­ West Indies The proposed expansion Without Tote, over - sized con­ • Kingston, Jamaica tions. It was a losin battle to keep the would add 179 feet to terminal tainers must be offloaded at Great Land on schedule when she was 3. McKiMey said the expan­ Seward or Whittier and working out of Seattle, he said. sion would allow a tanker and brought to Anchorage by train, "People just don't realize how im­ he said. portant it is to maintain our schedule. ships from Sea-Land and If we get behind, there's no way of Totem Ocean Trailer Express McKinney said the port has catching up," except by missing a to dock at the port at the same handled 318 vessels this year. time. week's sailing entirely, Acton said. And Sea-Land has three or four missing just one sailing costs TOTE a McKINNEY SAID the port ships a week, Tote has two half-million dollars. now can handle a Sea-Land arrivals, and there are usually . ship, a Tote ship and a tanker Acton, no relation to TOTE Presi­ Great Land, Sea-Land ship at Anchorage ' about 15 tankers a month, he dent William Acton, in Seattle, is a simultaneously only if said. refugee of competitor Sea-Land Ser- phoned some cargo from Sea-Land, trailers to its service. The obVious aim , Sea-Land docks at Terminal!, vice. He held down Sea-Land's fort at most of the goods on the trailerships is to capture more of the perishable ·· a tanker docks at the If voters approve the general Kodiak before TOTE arrived on the would have bypassed the port here, food business and that is a Sea-Land petroleum dock and Tote docks obligation bonds in October Anchorage scene late last summer. -either by being transported by truck or mainstay right now. at Terminals 2 and 3. and the state or federal gover­ With the Great Land sailing nearly barge 1md rail. . If a Sea-Land ship comes in nment comes through with fully loaded each week and the sister Port Director William McKinney ABOUT A HUNDRED longshore- , first and docks at Terminal 2, matching funds, he said con­ ship El Taino, on the run for one thinks "our tonnage this year will in­ men work the TOTE, Sea-Land and which it prefers to use, the struction could begin on month, already sailing nearly half full, crease at least 70 per cent due to TOTE other ships calling at the Port of ' Tote ship must use the schedule next summer. "TOTE has really impacted Alaska," coming here." Anchorage. Not all of those dock work­ Acton said. TOTE's arrival, however, has caused ers are men. "The people here were plain ripe for some berthing headaches for McKin­ In the ranks is . 26-year-old Patty TOTE coming in. I think we've got a ney. The battle between TOTE and Sea­ Stewa,rt, who recently has become a better mousetrap" than the competi- Land isn't as intense as last fall but steady tractor driver, rolling those tion, he added. occasional skirmishes still occur. trailers off and on the TOTE ships. Those other mousetraps include "We regret" the competitive atmos- The petite, pony-tailed longshore­ ~unday, May 2, lf76, Anchorage Times competitor Sea-Land's container ships ... phere that exists between the two com­ woman who hails from California has a out of Seattle, a rail barge service from panics, McKinney said diplomatically. biology degree from a California uni­ Seattle to the rail head at Seward and, "But I think they're beginning to real­ versity. · of course, hauling trailers overland on ize both of them are here to stay and She worked as a laboratory 'techni,. Between Us the Alaska Highway. they'd better get along with each cian for the California state health other." department but "there was no chal­ THE COMING OF TOTE was wel­ Whether that happens remains to be lenge to it," she said during a brief By Robert B. Atwood comed by the city-operated Port 'of seen. TOTE is just beginning to intro­ · trailer-loading break. "And I don 't like · Anchorage. Although TOTE has si- duce some newly bullt refrigerated being cooped up indoors." WE CAN ALL be proud this that if they didn't do well it would week of the longshoremen w~o . be unlikely that they woul~ get work on the Anchorage dock. They work in the future. are being cited as an inspiring -oo- example for longshoremen else- . 1 THE TRAFFIC EXPERT from ll/ews •• where, particularly in Seattle. San Francisco sang the praises of IJN~ JJciUu:~-E 7)-"11 L'f Tote, the people who run the the. operation in Anchorage. This ~J;,hr, world's largest trailer ships, the port gained immediate fame along .- Great Land and a sister ship West­ the entire West Coast because of ern Adventure, that starts service what the longshoremen did with next month, are telling the Seattle that shipload of newsprint. longshoremen that they are too When the Anchorage Times slow. If they don't speed up in han­ needed another shipload of paper, dling the ships, the company will about a .year later, it chartered an­ relocate its terminal in Tacoma. other line to bring it here. AgaiP. Proof that the Seattle longshore­ the operation was a success due tJ men are.too slow is the fact that the the enthusiasm and verve of those Anchorage longshoremen unload longshoremen. Sea-Land Ship HiiSht. the huge trailerships in one ·qde :- After that, charters were unne­ .. 10 to 12 hours. This eriables the ship cessary. The Alaska Line. published to leave on the first tide after ar­ tariffs and started regular opera­ rival. In Seattle the longshoremen tions to the Anchorf!ge dock. The do their work in 24 to 30 hours - Barge 'Fied At·Dock big deal with the ~;ailroad had been two or three tides. broken and the dock began tO col­ By ANN GABLER -oo- lect its first revenues. Times Staff Writer THE ANCHORAGE longshore­ The dock has ' be~n expanded A Sea-Land freighter weighing about wooden poles hung from the dock -were· men have won first honors for several times from its original '100,000 tons hit a barge tied to a dock at damaged,- according to McKinney. He s!>eed long before this. In fact, they structure, and further expaJlsion is t\Je Port of Anchorage yesterday slightly estimated damage to each pole at a few' made the local dock famous in 1961 needed now. Even though it has damaging the barge, its pipe-piling load, hundred dollars. as one pole was already, when the first coastwise ship ar­ required some tax support, it has the dock and a port tug. damaged and both had been in use for, rived here with cargo to be unload­ paid off many times. The 532-foot SS Newark out ofSeattle, some time. . ed. -oo- "came in nice and gently, hit the barge, The tug, Knik Wind, owned by CooK. The Anchorage Times brought THE EARTHQUAKE in 1964 that ship here under charter from wrecked all the major docks in broke the line and shoved it (the barge) Inlet T.ug and Barge, had seyeral_­ Vancouver, B.C. It brought a ship­ western Alaska. except at Anchor­ into the tug," a witness said. windows broken when the barge's pilings . load of newsprint. The Times age. The impact caused a hole 10 inches hit the boat, said mate Carl Anderson. chartered the ship in order to prove Had the people of Anchorage not long and one-quarter inch wide in the Urban said that about 30 minutes' · that the dock was usable. The Alas­ built the local dock with their tax barge's middle seam, said Bill Urban, prior to the accident, two men were on ka· Steamship Line had refused to credit, Fairbanks, as well as manager of the municipality's dock the 'barge loading pipe· pilings from a bring a ship to it. Valdez Seward and the rest of Lhe construction project. crane on the dock. The barge was waiting, That hassle involved the' monop­ wester~ Alaska population, includ­ The .hole was repaired in a few hours' to be towed a couple hundred feet to the • oly that was held by the_ Alaska ing Anchorage, would have been but at least five pipe pilings on the barge ~onstruction area when the Newark Railroad and the Alaska Lme. The left dependent upon airlines for railroad made a deal to take the . I were damaged, he said. Since the pipes nudged it with its bow. - • SUpp IICS. A spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard' : freight from the ships at Seward The problems of the trailership are pounded into the ground in seq~ence, said it will investigate the accident and, and pull it over two mountam yas­ operators can be solved. they say, construction will be delayed until the ses at great expense to get It to by relocating the southern ter­ damaged pipes are replaced, Urban said. submit a report to its district office in.: Juneau. · Anchorage. . minus at Tacoma where the long­ Port director Bill McKinney said Sea-Land Service Inc. refused to The Anchorage dock was a shoremen indicate thev will do a threat to that railroad traffic. It speedy job like the · Anchorage damage to the dock W!iS relatively comment on the incident. , took something special to break up crews. minor. "We've had more damage done Capt. Gerard Robinson of Homer was';' the cozy arrangem~nt. 'Tacoma ought to be interested by normal docking." pilot of the ship, which was carrying 366 ,: -oo- because the work involves 350 Two of the dook's fender pilings - loaded freight vans. WORKERS INSPECT EQUIPMENT.DAMAGES shifts per week. THAT SHIP caused problems The Tote line people say that in Dock construction workers inspect caused a 10-inch long hole in the for everybody, except the Ancho_r­ the barge and pipe pilings which barge which was repaired in a few Seattle the union assigns drivers age Times. The paper company m for their hustler trucks who don't were damaged yesterday when the hours. The ship, carrying 366 load­ San Francisco decided that Anchor­ freighter SS Newark, background, ed freight vans, weighed about know how to drive them. Some age didn't know how to run a dock, can't even start the ~ngine without hit the barge while docking at the 1~0.000 tons. so it sent its best traffic man here Port of Anchorage. The impact guidance. They fumble around and to supervise the unloading. , don't know how to take the trailers The people who ran the dock for on and off the ship. the city didn't know how to handle But in Anchorage, the union as­ a ship. It was a new experience to signs trained men who handle the have a Norwegian -freighter the trucks like a bookke~per handles a M.S. Trollegen, approach and v-:ant lead pencil. to be tied up. The San Francisco Isn't it grand to have Anchorage expert had to coach the local dock an example of something that is operators on bookkeeping, rate good? The public gets the benefits schedules and all that. from efficiencies in shipping. An­ But the longshoremen knew chorage is blessed by having long­ exactly what to do and they did it: shoremen who do well for the peo­ They unloaded that newsprint fast­ ple they serve here. er 4J:tan any crew anywhere on the W.eSt Coast had done before. They wod first honors for tons-per-hour Robert B. Attt·ooll is editor and a~d · speedy turnaround fOI'' that publisher of the Anchoru!{e Time.• nnd shiP-' · . ',· ~ lt 40-year reporter un the ,1/a.•kn This was deliberate. They knew scene. ~.\~()