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NOVEMBER, 1972 23

The Hon. Herman J. Matsaert, sixth from left, for the last five yearsConsul General of Belgium in Houston and newly appointed Ambassadorof Belgium to New Zealand, was honored by the Port of Houston recentlywith a farewell luncheon in the World Trade Club. From left to right areVaughn M. Bryant, director of international relations of the Port of Houston;Albert J. Liedts of Terminal Services, inc.; the Hon. Alejandro V. Carlde,Consul General of Argentina; Paul Hedemann, Vice President, BethlehemSteel Corp.; Mrs. Alice Reynolds Pratt, regional director of the Institute of

International Education; Consul General Matsaert; George W. Altvater,executive director of the Port of Houston; Fentress Bracewell, Chairman ofthe Port Commission; The Hon. Martin Cattonl, Honorary Consul of Para-guay; E. E. Murphy, president of the World Trade Club; W. D. Haden, II,Port Commissioner and Honorary Consul of Norway, and Alex Finney,former president of the World Trade Club and with the Humble Oil andRefining Co. marine department. For the last three months Consul GeneralMatsaert had been Dean of the Corps.

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Blue Sea LineAdds 4 Ships

Blue Sea Line, a joint service of BlueFunnel Line (Liverpool) and SwedishEast Asia Co., Ltd. (Gothenburg) hasannounced that the M/K PRIAM (pro-nouneed to rhyme with "time") hasjoined its fleet in service between South-east Asia, the Far East and U.S. Gnlfand Atlantic ports.

This is the first of four 21 knot sisterships that have been scheduled to re-place older vessels in the fleet. The otherthree ships are the M/l / PEISANDER,the M/I/ PROMETIIEUS, and theM/V PROTESILA US.

The introduction of these faster shipswill provide a transit time from theU.S.A. to the Straits of 26 days andfrom Japan to South Atlantic ports of21 days; 5 to 7 days faster than atpresent.

Commencing with her maiden BlueSea Line voyage in November, theM/F PRIAM will offer shippers manynew facilities, includino upwards of720,000 cubic feet of bale space, 20,000cubic feet of wbich is refrigerated.Other advantages include space for 80to 100 containers and a heavy lift eapae-ity of 60 tons. Approximately 2000 tonsof liquids cargo can be carried in 13deep tanks, ranging in size from 4=5 to400 tons.

These vessels are scheduled to departfrom Houston on or about the 10th ofeach month.

Blue Sea Line, a Member of the UnitLoad Council, is represented in theUnited States by Furness WithyAgencies (USA), with head offices Five World Trade Center, Suite 7411,New York, and in Houston at 814 WorldTrade Center. Other Furness WithyAgencies are located in New Orleans,Galveston, Boston, Norfolk, Chicago,Cleveland and St. Louis.

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His Excellency Sjarlf Thaieb, second from right, the Ambassador of Indonesia to the United States,was a recent visitor to Houston along with several members of his Embassy as guests of the M. W.Kellogg Company. While here the distinguished visitors were taken on a tour of the Ship Channelaboard the Port of Houston Authority’s inspection vessel SAM HOUSTON. Shown here, from left toright, are Arthur L. DoMing, vlce president, advertislng-public relations for Kellogg; The Hon. AtmonoSurjo, Minister Counsellor (Economic) of the Embassy; James Petrie, senior vlce president of Kellogg;Ambassador Sjarif, and the Hon. Bustanil Arifin, Consul General of Indonesia in New York.

MaritimeAssociationReorganized

R. E. Berkefeld, ~ice president--WestGulf division of Lykes Bros. SteamshipCo., Inc., has been elected chairman ofthe board and Wiley R. George hasbeen elected president of the West GulfMaritime Association.

The board of directors reorganized

the association on November 1 to makea more efficient operation.

William F. Arnett was named vicepresident--labor relations and Don tl.Eberle was named vice president--finance. Mrs. Billie Parker was namedsecretary.

The offices have been consolidatedand moved to 406 Cotton ExchangeBuilding. The telephones are: generaloffices, 227-1429; labor relations, 224-880I; inspection, 227-1429, and centralpayroll, 227-3238.

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The M/V MONCHEN, the second of two recently built barge-carrying ships by Combi Line, dockedon its maiden voyage at the Port of Houston’s new Barbours Cut Terminal in early November, givingdirect Houston-to-Europe LASH (Lighter Aboard Ship) service every 17 days. The MUNCHEN, shownhere loading barges in Europe, destined for Houston, is the sister ship of the M/V BILDERDYK whichopened Barbours Cut in June of this year with its maiden voyage call. The two new 43,000 ton shipsare 857 feet long and cruise at 18 knots. They each carry 83 barges aboard, each of which havecargo capacities of 365 long tons. The COMBI LASH service is a combination of Holland America Lineand the West German Hapag-Lloyd, AG. Biehl & Company, with Houston headquarters, are U.S.general agents for Combl Line.

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The Republic of China celebrated the 61st anniversary of its foundingon the tenth day of the tenth month (October lOth) with a reception offeredby the Hon. Chien-Yi Chu, left, Acting Consul General. From left to rightwith the Hon. Mr. Chu are Mrs. Alice Reynolds Pratt, regional director ofthe Institute of International Education; Mrs. Chu; Mrs. Harvln Moore,president of the Taipei-Housten Sister City Society; The Hen. Louie Welch,Mayor of Houston, who offered a toast to President Chlang Kai Shek, andBing Wu prominent Chinese businessman in Houston and a Director ofTaipei-Houston Sister City Society.

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His Excellency Egidio Ortona, center, Ambassador of Italy to the UnitedStates, addressed members of the Houston Council on World Affairs, TheWorld Trade Association and the Institute of International Education at aluncheon in the World Trade Club last month. Dr. Philip G. Hoffman,President of the University of Houston and a member of the Board ofAdvisors of both the Council of World Affairs and of the I.I.E., presidedand guests heard a brilliant discussion by Ambassador Ortona on Europeanand United States trade and its encouraging future. Shown here with theAmbassador before the luncheon are the Hon. Achille Arcldiacono, right,Honorary Consul of Italy, and Dr. Pietro Milone, Italian Trade Commissioner.

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Houston Port Commissioner W. D. Haden, II, right, who is also HonoraryConsul of Norway, is shown here before the first container full of Nor-wegian-made high-speed, 10-gear racing bicycles and special collapsiblebicycles for carrying in the trunk of an automobile and which can beassembled quickly for rides in the country. With him is Soong Li, formerC6nsul of Korea in Houston and now president of Douglas International,which is bringing in the bicycles as well as specialties from Korea, whichare displayed on the ground floor of the World Trade Building. DouglasInternational plans to import about 1,000 of the bicycles monthly.

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Fritz Maritime Agencies, agents for the Dallchi Chuo Kisen Kalsha steam-ship company of Tokyo, entertained recently in honor of M. Nagao, thirdfrom right, junior manager and director of Daiichi Chuo in Tokyo. Fromleft to right are Ra6l C6mara, manager of Fritz Maritime Agencies inHouston; Captain S. Sugimoto, port captain for the Daiichi Chuo organiza-tion; H. M. Broadnax, director of trade development of the Port of Houston;Mr. Nagao; A. M. Canonica, president of Fritz Maritime Agencies in SanFrancisco, and C. Kobayashi, vice general manager of the Tramp Departmentof Daiichi Chuo.

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NOVEMBER, 1972 29

TRADING IN AFRICAThe formation of Crescent Inter-

national (Sierra Leone, Ltd.) head-quartered in Fretown, Sierra Leone,has been announced by E. Icsel, pres-ident of Crescent Trade Corporation,4615 Southwest Freeway, Houston.

The new company, through its rep-

resentatives, will offer sales opportunitiesto U.S. manufacturers in Sierra Leone,Gambia, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghanaand Nigeria.

The Houston office will be managedby Sydney Beoku-Betts, business con-sultant to the Sierra Leone governmentand neighboring African nations.

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West AfricanLine Formed

North American-West African Line(NAWAL), a new coordinated serviceof four major steamship lines, is com-mencing operations.

Eric de Spirlet, president of AtlanticOverseas Corporation, a newly formedsteamship agency for the new line, listedits participants as Belgian Line, Char-geurs Reunis, Compagnie Maritime duZaire and Elder Dempster.

M. de Spirlet, who is also chairman ofDart Containerline, Inc., and Presidentof Belgian Line, Inc., noted that eachline in the combination service is finan-cially stable, broadly based and activein many phases of shipping and trans-portation. He estimated that collectiveexperience in the trade totals over twocenturies.

The steamship executive said the co-ordinated service will offer a uniquerange of coverage in North America forthe West African trade "right fromDuluth, Minnesota all the way to CorpusChristi, Texas and including for the firsttime a total of 15 Gulf, Great Lakes andSt. Lawrence Seaway and Atlantic Coastports on a regular basis."

Coverage in West Africa, he said issimilarly comprehensive covering 15ports from Dakar, Senegal to Lobito,Angola. He added that a total of 11ships will initially be involved in theconsolidated schedule.

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30 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

Port SafetyGroup ElectsNew Officers

Wayne Slovacek, plant manager ofUnion Equity Cooperative Exchange, aprivately owned Port of Houston exportgrain elevator, was elected chairman ofHouston’s Port Safety and AdvisoryCouncil at the organization’s Novembermeeting.

Named vice chairman was Louis F.Brown, Jr., chief, fire protection andtraffic control officer for the Port ofHouston Authority.

The two new Council officers, votedin by acclamation, will take over theirnew posts immediately.

The Port Safety and Advisory Councilis an organization which is composed ofmembers from private concerns andpublic agencies interested in all mari-time matters and its views on varioussubjects in its field are highly regardedby local, state and Federal officials.

EnvironmentCase To Be Heard

A conference scheduled for Nov. 19-22in Houston will take the form of a trialand a Congressionally authorized 100-member body of individuals will sit asjurors to hear the case: The Environ-ment: Man On Trial.

The conference/trial is the fourth offour major conferences on environmentaleducation, beginning in 1969, and dele-

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continue as Norton, Lilly’s agent for theShipping Corporation of India in theU. S. Pacific Northwest while in Cal-ifornia the line will be handled byNorton, Lilly as of October 1. Olympie’sother activities at Seattle and Portlandwill continue without interruption.

Mr. William F. Horton, presentlyVi(’e President for California of Olym-

pic, will head Norton, Lilly’s new organ-ization as Vice President West Coast.Mr. Horton is President of the ForeignShipowners Association of the PacificCoast.

Mr. Ralph Kramer and Mr. ErnestSehenk will continue as District Man-agers for Los Angeles and San Fran-cisco, respectively, in Norton, Lilly.

B. A. Murphy, left, assistant general managerof Intracoastal Towing & Transportation Corp..was presented a wrist watch by Edwin Eikel,president of the firm. The presentation was madeat a luncheon in the Plaza Club, atop the 50-story Shell Building.

OFFICES SWITCHEDG. tl. Seefeldt, 1)resident, Olympic

Steamship Co., Inc. of Seattle and JohnGrifflth, chairman of the board, Norton,Lilly & Co., Inc. of New York an-nounced an agreement between the com-panies relating to their West Coast op-erations. Under the agreement, Olympic,a Seattle based company with over 30years’ activity on the Pacific Coast, willclose its California offices and Norton,Lilly, with ]30 years of continuous op-erations in the maritime field, will re-open offices in San Francisco and LosAngeles at Olympic’s present locations.The two companies will act as sub-agents for each other in California andthe Pacific Northwest.

Under this agreement, Olympic will

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NORTON, LILLY & CO., INC. General AgentsNew York - 90 West Street - (212) 732-2211

New Orleans - 1338 Intern’l Trade Mart - 522-6101Houston - 320 McFadden Bldg. - 222-9601

Galveston - 512 U.S. Nat’l Bank Bldg. - 765-9463Dallas - 717 Cotton Exchange Bldg. - 747-5064Mobile - Marine Bulk Ore Terminal - 433-1536

Export AidIs Available

A program to increase or initiate theexport sales of small to medium sizedU.S. firms is well underway with thecombined resources of the U.S. Depart-ment of Commerce and some 50 gradu-ate schools of business administration inthe United States.

Called The Export Assistance Masters(TEAM) program, the project providesparticipating firms with tailor-madestudies of its product’s sale potential inforeign markets, all by highly qualifiedgraduate students under the supervisionof experienced international marketingfaculty members and with the full as-sistance of the U.S. Department of Com-merce.

Areas covered in the studies includemarket size, growth rates, end users,tariffs and domestic and foreign com-petition, along with specific recommen-dations for export action.

Executives interested in the programshould contact the nearest U.S. Depart-ment of Commerce facility or write theBureau of International Commerce, U.S.Department of Commerce, Washington,D.C. 20230.

A Subsidiary ofSwedish American Line of Gothenburg, Sweden and

OY Finnllnes, Ltd., Helsenki, Finland

Regular Freight, Container and Refrigerated Serviceto

LE HAVRE - ANTWERP - GHENT - ROTTERDAMBREMEN - HAMBURG

OSLO - GOTH ENBURG - COPENHAGEN -MALMOSTOCKHOLM - H ELSI NKI - GDYN IA

STRACHAN SHIPPING COMPANYGENERAL AGENTS

Houston Oftlce1400 Cotton Exchange Bldg. CA 8-1431

Other Ofiices

Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Jacksonville, Savannah, Dallas,Memphis, St. Louis, Chicago, Atlanta, Charleston-Greenville

Miami: Shaw Co. Tampa: Luckenbach Steamship Co.New York Agents

Boise-Griffin Steamship Co., Inc.

Compania Sud Americana de VaporesExpress Freight Service From

HOUSTON ¯ GALVESTONMOBILE ̄ NEW ORLEANS

AND OTHER PORTS AS CARGO OFFERS

TO PANAMAECUADOR ° PERUBOLIVIA ¯ CHILE

One World Trade Center, New York 10048Tel. (212) 432-1160

Gulf Agents

STRACHAN SHIPPING CO.NEW ORLEANS ¯ HOUSTON ¯ MOBILEGALVESTON ¯ CHICAGO ¯ ST. LOUISATLANTA ¯ DALLAS ¯ MEMPHIS

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Frank G. McKnight, second from right, associate general sales managerof the Export Marketing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, toldmembers of the Houston World Trade Association, the Houston Council onWorld Affairs and International Business Committee of the Houston Chamberof Commerce that the Port of Houston will handle about 70 per cent ofthe 7.3 million tons of wheat expected to move through Gulf ports toRussia during the present marketing year. Shown with him following theluncheon in the World Trade Club are Pedro A. Grana, president of theWest Gulf Maritime Association; Mike Warren of the Union Equity Coopera-tive Exchange, which has a 5 million bushel grain elevator on the ShipChannel, and Kenneth Roden, manager of the Public Grain Elevator of thePort of Houston Authority.

Robert S. Finz, center, manager of freight and sales of the New Yorkoffice of the United Fruit Company, was in Houston recently to visit thePort and its facilities. He is shown here with Henry M. Broadnax, right,Director of Trade Development of the Port of Houston Authority, and O. L.McCarthy, left, freight agent in the Houston office of the United Fruit Co.

SHIP VIA PORT OF HOUSTON

Helping to lighten loadsat the Port of Houston.That~ part of our job.

The Lightcompany

Houston Lighting & Power

Power onthe GulfOver 40,000 tug horsepower available

SUDERMAN

AND YOUNGTOWING CO., INC.

HARBOR andCOASTWISE

TOWINGSERVING THE TEXAS GULF COAST

329 Port of Houston World Trade BuildingHouston, Texas 77002

Cable: SANDY Houston

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From now on it’s Houston and New Orleansto Bremerhaven and Rotterdam to Houston andNew Orleans to Bremerhaven and Rotterdam to...

Bi-weekly,Sea-Land.

Sea-Land now offers direct American-flag containership service between the U. S.Gulf Coast, Midwest, Southwest and theUnited Kingdom and Northern Europe.

Our fast SL-18 class containerships eachcarry 733 containers (35 and 40 footers)...sail to and from Houston and New Orleansevery second week, serving not only Bremer-haven and Rotterdam, but connecting withLe Havre, France; Felixstowe and Preston,England; Grangemouth, Scotland; Gothen-burg, Sweden.

Our "ready wheels"--a chassis for everycontainer--mean immediate pick up ordelivery of your cargo. And they make everytown become a port.

We’ve also got exclusive terminals tohandle your container with no dockside delay.No port congestion. Your goods move totheir destination faster.

Whatever your cargo, we’ve got the con-tainers-open top, dry cargo, platform trailers,bulk liquid, temperature-controlled, andinsulated/ventilated. And they come right toyour door.

Call your nearest Sea-Land representativefor details, schedules and a free analysis ofyour transportation costs.

Sea-Land Gulf-North Europe Divisionoffices: New Orleans (504) 944-7461,"Houston (713) 681-3581," Dallas (214/63q-0680; Chicago (312/755-1000," Mobile (205)433-0461," St. Louis (314/531-0440," NewYork (212/564-4250.

Nobody keeps things movinglike Sea-Land ~

38 PORT OF HOUSTON MAGAZINE

You’re looking atone of the few places wedon’t bank.

But, when the needarises, you can be sureBank of the Southwest willbe one of the first banks to puta man on the moon. In themeantime, we can take care of all yourbanking needs just about anywhere on earth.

Our Paris representative, for example, opens up all ofWestem Europe to you. And, as part owner of Allied BankIntemational, we can help you do business in London,Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York.

Then there’s the Euro-dollar market madepossible by our Nassau branch, plus all the otherFree World markets in which we have closecorres banking relationships.

If you do business around the world, contactour Intemational Banking Department, (713) 225-1551.

And when you’re ready to conquer new worlds, we’llbe there waiting for you.

Bank of the Southwest910 Travis Houston Texas 77002 Member Southwest Bancshares, Inc. Member F D I C

ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTEDP. O. Box 2562, Houston, Texas 77001

MANCHESTER TERMINAL WANTS TO HANDLE YOUR CARGO. Big enough to do the job,but small enough to give personalized service, Manchester Terminal has three berths andmore than a million feet of warehouse space. All concrete construction, the warehouseshave automatic sprinklers and fire alarms.

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P. O. Box 52278 -- Houston, Texas 77052General Offices: 425 Cotton Exchange Bldg. (713) 227°3296

Houston’s Privately-Owned and Operated Terminal