THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE A L A B A M A OF The ALABAMA STATE PORT AUTHORITY SEAPORT MAY 20 12 Alabama Seaport PuBlishED continuOuSly since 1927 • may 2012 ESTABLISHED 1892 GLOBAL LOGISTICS On The Cover: In april, Page & Jones acted as customs broker and vessel agent for the PROGRESS ANCHORED IN TRADITION mV MAGSENGEr 8. The ship arrived in port with a surveyed draft of 44.6 feet carrying 4,727 carbon-steel slabs weighing in at 102,488 mT. Built in supply chain management • general & bulk cargo • automotive specialists 2012, and currently sailing on its maiden voyage, the mV MAGSENGEr 8 is a 115,455 DwT vessel, measuring 834 feet in lOa and has a beam of 142 feet. This shipment set another record for the Pinto Steel Terminal. 10 12 Alabama State Port Authority P.O. Box 1588, Mobile, Alabama 36633, USA P: 251.441.7200 • F: 251.441.7216 • asdd.com Contents James K. Lyons, Director, CEO Larry R. Downs, Secretary-Treasurer/CFO Page & Jones Celebrates 120 years of Shipping logistics .......................4 Page & Jones 120th anniversary Photos ......................................................8 Financial SerVices Larry Downs, Secretary/Treasurer 251.441.7050 China Shipping adds new Service in mobile ..............................................10 Linda K. Paaymans, Sr. Vice President, Finance 251.441.7036 Huntsville, AL COmptrOllEr Pete Dranka 251.441.7057 wildlife Finds new home on Port Property ............................................... 12 Page & Jones, Inc. Information TechnOlOgy Stan Hurston, manager 251.441.7017 human Resources Danny Barnett, manager 251.441.7004 Seabulk Towing Inc. annual Crawfish Boil Photos..........................................16 Risk managEmEnT Kevin Malpas, manager 251.441.7118 Locations InTErnal auditor Avito DeAndrade 251.441.7210 Port Calls: alabama Bass Trail aims to reel in anglers From around the nation .................................................................................19 Birmingham, AL Marketing Judith Adams, Vice President 251.441.7003 whO wOrkS ThE rIVErSSM CarEEr DAY: Sheri Reid, manager, Public affairs 251.441.7001 Pete O’Neal, manager, real Estate 251.441.7123 maritime Community Teams up to Educate area Students ................... 22 John Goff, manager, Theodore Operations 251.443.7982 Currents ............................................................................................................ 24 Jackson, MS Atlanta, GA Kelly Sims, manager, Fixed assets 251.441.7113 Of men & Ships: The Tanker war .................................................................27 Operations H.S. “Smitty” Thorne, Executive Vice President/COO 251.441.7238 Mobile, AL (HQ) Bradley N. Ojard, Sr. Vice President, Operations 251.441.8133 Departments Bulk OperationS Raymond Dearmon, manager 251.441.7676 Bill Johnson, Operations Superintendent 251.441.7214 arrivals/Sailings .............................................................................................. 32 New Orleans, LA Panama City, FL Fernandina Beach, FL TErmInal raIlway Mike Russell, general manager 251.441.7301 GenEral CargO/IntermODal OperationS Postcards from the Past ...............................................................................35 Bill Inge, manager P: 251.441.7236 F: 251.441.7231 Port of mobile Directory ................................................................................36 Jacksonville, FL CustomEr SErvice Marx Nicholson, manager 251.441.7047 Traffic/Sales Anna Ward, manager 251.441.7516 Steamship agencies & lines ........................................................................38 lOgISTICS Chuck Camp, manager 251.441.8179 POrT POlice Chief Jimmie Flanagan P: 251.441.7777 Pensacola, FL F: 251.441.7172 Gulfport, MS TruCk COnTrOl Lester Davidson 251.441.7098 PInTO TERMINAL, David Bray, manager 251.441.1927 Pascagoula, MS harbor master Capt. Terry Gilbreath 251.441.7074 Planning & SecuritY Hal Hudgins, Vice President 251.441.7237 Engineering serVices Jerald Kichler, P.E., Vice President, Engineering Services 251.441.8975 ENVironmental & Program Management Bob Harris, Vice President, Environmental/Program management 251.441.7085 19 27 Trade & DEVelopment Mark I. Sheppard, Vice President 251.441.7201 Todd Jones, Director Trade & Development 251.441.7144 An Equal Opportunity Employer latin amErICa Sales & TraDE DevelopmEnT ALABAMA SEAPORT (ISSN 1524-8259) is published monthly by the marketing department, Alabama State Port Maria Mendez, Director 251.441.7535 Authority. The magazine is provided free of charge upon written request from customers and friends of the Alabama FREIGHT FORWARDERS • STEAMSHIP AGENTS • CUSTOM BROKERS • AIR CARGO • NVOCC State Port Authority. Material contained herein, except when copyrighted, may be reproduced in whole or in part. A credit line “Reprinted from ALABAMA SEAPORT,” will be appreciated, and it is requested that a copy of the publica- tion, containing the material used, be sent to Editor, ALABAMA SEAPORT, Alabama State Port Authority, P.O. Box 1588, Mobile, Alabama 36633 U.S.A. Executive Office: 52 N. Jackson Street • Mobile, Alabama 36602 Phone: 251/432-1646 TLX 782-029 • FAX: 251/433-1402 • www.pagejones.com CHB Lic. #2843 • FMC Lic. #1567 PAGE_6346_Seaport_ad.indd 1 3/21/08 10:41:53 AM Page & Jones Celebrates Page & Jones acted as both ship agent and 120 Years of Shipping Logistics customs broker for the M/V MAGSENGER 8 as it unloads more than 100,000 tons of steel arriving For 120 years, Page & Jones has provided shipping logistics to domestic to the Pinto Island Steel Terminal from Brazil. and international clients, amid industry and technology changes, always with an eye to the future for the next industry trend. Today, the family- owned, Mobile-based company is thriving and continues to make plans for the future. Page & Jones handles air, ocean and surface transportation Robert Bentley, governor of alabama with services that include customs brokerage, export freight forwarding, ship agency, duty drawback services, marine insurance, project and heavy Alabama State Port AuthoritY lift cargo, ship chartering, bonding, and NVOCC (non-vessel operating Tim Parker Jr., Chair, Tuscaloosa Term expires July 31, 2013 common carrier). David J. Cooper, Vice Chair, mobile Term expires July 31, 2013 The majority of the company’s time is spent on customs brokerage, William B. Bru, 2nd Vice Chair, mobile followed by freight forwarding and ship agency. Some inland branches, Term expires august 2, 2014 such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Huntsville and Jackson, Miss., focus solely H.L. “Sonny” Callahan, Mobile Term expires august 2, 2014 on customs clearance, while the port branches do a mix of all three areas, Richard Weavil, Mobile said Page & Jones President and CEO Mike Lee. The company’s client Term expires July 31, 2015 base is diverse, ranging from antique furniture to alcoholic beverages Mike Fields, Tuscaloosa to apparel, but its largest customers are in the automotive, steel, frozen Term expires august 2, 2014 poultry and refrigerated food industries. “That’s been one of our strengths Joseph McCarty, Birmingham in growing: We’ve never concentrated on one industry,” he said. “We’ve Term expires July 31, 2015 Algernon Stanley, huntsville got enough variety we didn’t feel we’d grow as much as we would have if Term expires July 31, 2015 we specialized.” The Honorable Connie Hudson, President, Mobile County Commission (Ex-Officio) Term expires July 31, 2012 Alabama Seaport Editorial Staff Judith Adams, Editor-in-Chief Page & Jones has seen a number of changes over the a national entry processing license, allowing remote filing. Jarrod England, managing Editor years. In the 1970s, containerization moved primarily to The company could handle customs clearance for its clients Scott Rye, Contributing Editor the East and West coasts, with containers traveling to final at any U.S. port or airport, even without a physical location Sheri Reid, Editor-at-large inland destinations by truck or rail. “Many Far East and in that city. Editorial Contributors European Shipping lines left Mobile and the Gulf for ports Christina alford like Los Angeles and Oakland to the west, and Charleston, Additional technology changes followed as customs moved greta Sharp Savannah, Baltimore and New York in the east,” said Lee. from a very paper-heavy industry, with multi-carbon forms maureen Smith To capitalize on this momentum, Page & Jones expanded its requiring original signatures, to a ‘paperless’ environment Scott Thornburg custom brokerage services to include inland cities, serving where paperwork can be done online and companies have PhotographY as customs clearing points for those land-bridged cargoes 24-hour access to agencies including U.S. Customs and Judy adams in containers. After seeing initial success in Birmingham, Border Protection and the U.S. Coast Guard. “It’s location austal uSa Ala., the company expanded to Huntsville, Ala., Atlanta and neutral,” Lee explained. “They don’t care if you’re in Mobile, Johnny hunter Jackson, Miss. At the same time, Page & Jones expanded Ala., or San Francisco. Once you’re set up online, you can Danny leathers its brokerage and ship agency operations to New Orleans; handle shipments all over the United States.” Page & Jones Sheri reid Gulfport and Pascagoula, Miss.; and Pensacola, Panama Bill Summerour City, Jacksonville and Fernandina Beach, Fla. While technology didn’t slow the company’s actual growth, it did slow its expansion into other cities where business could Editorial offices of ALABAMA SEaPOrT magazine are In the 1980s, U.S.