E.S. Binnings, Inc. Steamship Agents 711 FANNIN, SUITE 906 Telephone:CApitol 5-0,531 \ HOUSTON,TEXAS "A" FRENCHLINE (FrenchAtlantic) HANSALINE (Med./RedSea/Persian Gulf) "A" GRANCOLOMBIANALINE Central America,Colombia, Ecuador,Peru Panamavia Cristobal OFFICES NEW. ORLEANS HOUSTON The M/V DAPHNEtakes on the first set of MEMPHIS GALVESTON ST. LOUIS containers to go from the Gulf directly to Europe DALLAS at the Port of Houston last month. The DAPHNE is one of two 400-contalner capacity ships pres- ently being used by Universal Thrutainer for the newservice whichalso provides its shipperswith containers. Thrutainer has terminals in Bremen, Germany,and in Antwerp, Belgium. Agent for the service in the U.S. Gulf is Gulf Motorships, EVERY MONTH -- ~~ inc. of Houstonand NewOrleans. ¯ BOMBAY¯ COCHIN ¯ MADRAS ¯ CALCUTTA New Orleans Galveston Houston VISHVA KAUSHAL Dec. 27 Dec. 30 STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH Jan. 12 Jan. 16 GULFPORTS CRATING CO. VISHVA PREM Jan. 22 Jan. 25 Export Packing Commercial--Military Boxing--Crating--Processing HOUSTON:1600 N. 75th St., 923-5551 NEWORLEANS: 1717 Tchoupitoulas 525-9936 6TH FLOORWORLD TRADE CENTER ESTABLISHED1905 HOUSTON,TEXAS PHONECA 2-9961 REPRESENTING BARBERLINES ............................. GULF/FAR EAST OZEAN/STINNESLINES..SOUTH ATLANTIC/CONTINENTALEUROPE NOPALLINE ............... GULF EAST COASTSOUTH AMERICA BARBERLINES .......................... NOPALWEST AFRICA LINE ................ GULF/MIDDLEEAST GULF/WESTAFRICA FARRELLLINES ............................ GULF/AUSTRALIA HAMBURGAMERICA LINE ......... GULF/CONTINENTALEUROPE MARINEEXPRESS LINE ...... NORTHGERMAN LLOYD ........... GULF/CONTINENTALEUROPE GULF/EAST COASTCENTRAL AMER. OZEAN/STINNESLINES ............ GULF/CONTINENTALEUROPE KSC NEWYORK LINE .................... GULF/JAPANI/KOREA SIDARMALINE ....................... GULF/MEDITERRANEAN L. SMIT & CO.’s ............. INTERNATIONALTOWING SERVICE MAMENICLINE .... GULF/WEST& EAST COASTCENTRAL AMER. SMIT-LLOYD,N.V ...................... SUPPLYBOAT SERVICE SCINDIA STEAMNAVIGATION CO., LTD ............ GULF/INDIA C. CLAUSENSTEAMSHIP CO., LTD...LIVESTOCK CHARTERSERVICE HOUSTON¯ NEW ORLEANS¯ GALVESTON¯ BEAUMONT¯ ORANGE¯ MOBILE ¯ BROWNSVILLE CORPUSCHRISTI ¯ MEMPHIS ¯ DALLAS CABLEADDRESS: BIEHL, HOUSTON¯ TELEX077-412 ¯ TWX910-881-1711 DECEMBER,1969 21 Captain Cornelius Jean Bernard, master of the M/V ALAIN L.D., inspects the maiden voyage plaque presented him by Andy Saab, left, and John Daley, right, for the Port of Houston and the Houston Junior Chamberof Commerce. Also on the bridge of the new ship are Charles A. McEniry, second from left, vice president of Texas Transport & Terminal Company, Inc., steamship agents for the vessel; and John P. Bessman,center, president This group of Kansas 4-H members and Kansas Wheat Commission offi- its Public Grain of Sagus Marine Corporation, New York, which operates the Louis Dreyfus cials recently made a tour of the Port of Houston and SAM HOUSTON Lines, owner of the ALAIN LD. Elevator. Shownhere aboard the Port’s Inspection Vessel are, from the left, front row: Kenneth Roden, grain elevator manager, Port of Houston, who conducted the tour; Duane Frasier, 4-H, Sharon Springs, and Glen Strnad, wheat commissioner, District 5, Cuba, Ks. Second row, from the left: David Cook, 4-H, Abilene, Ks.; Donald McWilliams, county extension agricultural agent, Sharon Springs, Ks.; Larry Turnquist, 4-H, Lindsborg, Ks.; and Edward Juno, Jr., 4-H, Otis, Ks. Third row, from the left: John R. Dukelow, Kansas Wheat DIRECT FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE Commissionmarketing assistant, Hutchinson, Ks.; Donald E. Crane, Kansas Association of Wheat Growers, Wright, Ks.; Dr. James L. Balding, ex- U. S. GULFPORTS tension specialist, Extension Service, KansasState University, Manhattan; and Harry Walker, 1969 TO: Kansas State Fair wheat sweepstakes winner, Englewood, Ks. MANCHESTER-LIVERPOOL-GLASGOW UNITEDSTEVEDORING Houston Galveston New Orleans Mobile Division Of SOMMERSIS LE Jan. 4 Jan. 5 Jan. 7 Jan. 9 States MarineLines, Inc. PICARDY Jan. 15 Jan. 16 Jan. 18 Jan. 20 Cotton ExchangeBldg. 227-0687 227-3374 CHANDELEUR Feb. 5 Feb. 6 Feb. 8 Feb. 10 BEN H. MOORE Houston: 814 World Trade Bldg. - Phone (713) 227-1521 INSURANCE AGENCY Ben H. Moore- William C. Moore MARINE- CASUALTY-FIRE NEWORLEANS * HOUSTON WITHY t~ CO.t L.TO. Cable: MOORDEEN ~e~,4~~ GALVESTON* NEW YORK 915 World Trade Bldg. 228-5227 "ALEXANDER SHIPPING CO.~MEMPHIS ¯ DALLAS ST. LOUIS "CHICAGO last and[requent Deppe Line between the Gull and North Europe Hansen& Tidemann,Inc. General Agents Houstonm call CA3-4181 22 PORT OF HOUSTONMAGAZINE Thirty two Caterpillar-built No. 561 plpelayers movedthrough the Port of Houston recently boundfor Algeria where thousands of miles of pipeline have already been constructed with Caterpillar products, reaching an all-time high in 1968. The huge machinesmoved in two shipments, one aboard the MISSOURIand one aboard the ALBERTAof the NordanaLine, Furness, Whithy and Co., agents. Part of them are shownhere at right on Rat cars on the Port of Houston’s marginal tracks from wh;ch they were loaded directly to the vessels, resulting in less cost and minimumexposure to damage.At left one of the machinesis lifted by a NavigationDistrict gantry crane on to the Danish-flag MISSOURI.The pipe- layers movedto Houstondirect by rail from the Caterpillarfactory at Peoria,Illinols. FROM HOUSTON TO Venezuela ¯ Dominican Republic LONGHORN Jamaica ¯ Surinam TRANSFERSERVICE, INC. SPECIALIZI NG~IMPORT/EXPORTTRUCKING Houston Agent: 7112 Avenue C Houston, Texas Dalton SteamshipCorporation 926-2661 7th Floor World Trade Building "Perfectionin Performanceis Achieved Only Houston, Texas 77002. Phone: 228-8661 by Experience" Teletype: 713-571-1421 YourVessel will be metat the Bar and Piloted to the Port of Houstonby ill HOUSTON PILOTS n ~ e GULF FREEWAY III HOUSTON,TEXAS 77023 DECEMBER,1969 23 COMPLETE TESTING AND INSPECTION SERVICE ¯ Analytical Chemists ¯ Testing Engineers ¯ Materials Inspectors ¯ Cargo Surveyors ¯ Spectro- graphic Analysis SHILSTONETESTING LABORATORY 1714 WEST CAPITOL AVE., HOUSTON Offices: Houston,New Orleans, Corpus Christi, BatonRouge Representativesin all majorcities Les Watson, president of Brand Export Packing of Texas, Inc., inspects one of his packing yards where the helicopter being dismantled in the FastRegular Cargo Service backgroundis part of a 3,000 ton pipeline project going to Iran aboard a Transoceanic Shipping Company vessel out of the Port of Houston for HOUSTON,NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE the Rosson Coatings S. A. firm of New Orleans. The helicopter was flown directly into the packing WEEKLY yard and will be used for pipeline inspection trips. to La Guaira*, Curacao*and Trinidad* T.T.T. APPOINTED FORTNIGHTLY N.V. Bureau Wijsmuller. Ijmuiden, to Maracaibo,Aruba*, Guanta,Barbados*, Holland, have announced the appoint- Georgetownand Paramaribo ment of Texas Transport & Terminal *Fortnightly from Mobile Co. Inc., as general agents for the United States. Agents: Houston, Mobile, New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Dallas, Memphis, The ocean towage and salvage com- Atlanta ....................................... STRACHAN SHIPPING COMPANY pany, one of the oldest deep sea towing LAVINO SHIPPING CO. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh .................................. concerns of Holland, specializes in long Baltimore, Norfolk ..................................... RAMSAY, SCARLETT & CO. Detroit, Cleveland .................. INTERNATIONAL GREAT LAKES SHIPPING CO. distance towing of dredging material and oil drilling equipment plus salvage operations throughout the world. Their Royalndherlands $1eamship ~mpanu head office is located in Ijmuiden, Sluis- 25 BROADWAY,NEW YORK, N. Y. 10004 plein 34, Holland. INDEPENDENT First class Americanflag service with frequent sailings from U.S. Gulf ports, Vera Cruz and Tampico to the GULF LINE Caribbean, Brazil, Uruguay and Argen- (Vinke & Co., Amsterdam,Managers) tina. Every two weeks to West Africa REGULARSERVICE from U.S. Gulf. to andfrom the CONTINENT Modern cargo liners offering dependable express s~rxpPI~ C 0 I~,P 0 I>JILT ~01~ General Agent U.S.A. services for refrigerated, bulk, dry, liquid, heavy-lift, Houston¯ Galveston * NewYork containerized and general cargoes. New Orleans * Memphis¯ Baltim D~,lta SteamshipLines, Inc., P. O. Box50250, NewOrleans, La. 70150 Philadelphia ¯ Wilmington New York " \.Vashington " Chicago " Houston Refrigerated Space Available 24 PORT OF HOUSTONMAGAZINE the import-export figures for Houston, as a clearing house for information, JapanTrade Is while less than that handled bv the I_-.S. knowledge and technical innovations in West Coast ports, were nevertimless im- the rapidly developing ocean and space portant. He also pointed out that the industries ~hich. he says, "is already Skyrocketing tigurcs, taken basically from Houston’s being proved in the tlehi of oil drilling A recently released analysis o[ trade Custom District, do not show that the and its related businesses outside of between Texas and Japan by the Jap- South’s largest city is pla)ing a vilal role Texas and the U.S.A." anese Consul General in Houston indi- cates both imports and exports in Texas are increasing at a faster tempo than that of Ihc {:.S. average. Consul General Arao Ohta. in releas- ing thc analysis hascd upon figures from the | nitcd States-Japan Trade Council, points out that the balance of trade in 1968 favored Ihe 17nited States only in the states of Texas, Washington, Oregon and Louisiana. However. even in these states the balance of trade is gradually