Dock Strike? A survey of opinion in the Southeast indicates employ-ers can agree to 10% pay increases this year and a Guaranteed Annual Income (which is what the dockers want most) provided the I LA cooperates. Southeastern ports are seriously worried over decision-making in New York. One employer believes LASH and SEABEE ships can provide stability for labor and management.

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TRACOR/MAS Inc. (formerly known asMarine Acoustical Services) has reached an in-terim agreement with Port Everglades Author-ity to takeover and operate the shipyard built by the authority for Port Everglades Shipyard.

Occupying the shipyard plant August 1, thefirm has begun using the yard for ship repairs and it is anticipated the firm ’s other engineer-ing and oceanographic work will be transferred when details of the 30-year agreement are final-ized. Meanwhile, TRACOR/MAS will continue to use its Miami facilities.

The new agreement re-activates the ship-yard and Syncrolift drydock which has stood idle since bankruptcy of the former lessees early this year.

Principal change in the lease agreements, according to Everglades Port Director J. H. Ferris, is provision for the yard to function also as an oceanographic facility, and a provision for reduced rent during the first five years of the lease period—to be made up by additional pay-ments commencing the 10th year. TRACOR/MAS will make the same payments as the former tenants during the second five years.

The research firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TRACOR, Inc., a diversified advanced technology firm based in Austin, Tex.

President John C. Ploegert said the name change represents “the broader sphere we have been working in for the last five or six years.” The firm has been conducting all phases of ocean technical programs as well as operating and servicing its own fleet of ships on many di-verse programs, some rather removed from underwater acoustics, he added. In moving to Port Everglades, the firm now adds a big shipyard and deepwater port capability to its storehouse of ocean-science skills and technical knowledge. The firm ’s ships and crews have operated in all of the world’s seas and now logistic and communication support for these programs will be conducted from its new facility in Port Everglades. The facility has more than 10,000 sq. ft. of a widely equipped machine shop. This will help the firm expand its electrical shops, steel fabrication and repair shops into the enlarged quarters. Also there are mobile cranes for heavy lifts as well as portable dock side equipment alongside 400 feet of dock space. Besides serving as home, Port Everglades will provide TRACOR/MAS with the ability to service ship owners needing general shipyard work or for any ocean- scientific requirements.

The move into Port Everglades will let the firm accommodate more and larger conversions for marine research tasks and sell its skills and deep water ship repair to any interested ship owner, accord-ing to Ploegert.

Hapag-Lloyd’s M/V Goslar has loaded an entire apartm ent house at Bremen, Germany for discharge at Nassau and erection on Great Harbour Key in the Bahamas, according to Robert Albury, Miami agent for the Hapag-Lloyd service. The apartm ent was dismantled into over 1,000 sections and packed in 260 crates.F L O R I D A J O U R N A L O F C O M M E R C E S E P T E M B E R 1 9 7 1

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A survey of opinion in the Southeast indicates employ-

ers can agree to 10% pay increases this year and a Guaranteed Annual Income (which is what the dockers want most) provided the I LA cooperates. Southeastern ports are seriously worried over decision-making in New York. One employer believes LASH and SEABEE ships can provide stability for labor and management.

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Two years ago, we asked Landon Williams, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local in Jacksonville:

“When does a man become a steady worker?”

W ithout hesitation, he replied:“W hen he buys a home. From that

time on, he looks upon his w ork as a profession.”

It has been a long time since that conversation, but the simplicity of his statement— and its depth of meaning — has stuck in our mind to the extent that the above statem ent is, to the best of our recollection, a precise quotation.

Purpose of the conversation at that time was to obtain an insight into what the ILA union might expect in the way of a G uaranteed A nnual Incom e (GAI) during the labor contract negotiations with the stevedoring and shipping com -panies this Summer. The present con-tract, written under duress of a two- m onth strike in the W inter of 1969, put m anagem ent on notice that the GAI would be sought when the contract expires September 30 (next month) and specified that studies should be under-taken to see whether or not some form of G A I might be worked out.

Very Little Done Surprisingly, almost nothing has been

accomplished during the past 30 m onths to solve the problem before the Septem-ber 30 deadline. ILA and managem ent are rushing toward the September 30 deadline seemingly miles apart— almost everyone assuming that a long and costly strike is inevitable.

There’s really no excuse for it a t all. The one thing which appears certain

at this writing (August 11) is that ILA President Thomas W. Gleason has told

his men the G A I is the one big issue on which he will not retreat. The majority of m anagem ent admits, privately, that some form of G A I is inevitable.

But as to terms, methods and effects — SILENCE. Few, if any, individuals dare to be quoted or identified.

W e know of one firm in a South-eastern port which “takes it for grant-ed” some form of G A I will be agreed upon and is gearing its accounting p ro-cedures to it. Another firm , in South Florida, has methodically researched the labor history there to determine hours worked in the past, num ber of m en involved, the regular men, casuals, etc.

An official in another port has con-cluded in his own mind that this year’s negotiations, and the expected GAI, will provide the greatest impetus yet to LASH, SEABEE and container services with results that could be beneficial to all concerned—except the break-bulk operators forced to employ their vessels in other trades. H e presents very sound reasoning, which will be noted later.

But, returning to those details, we find nothing showing up on paper except the demands presented national-ly by Gleason, and various form s of “local” demands set forth by ILA presi-dents in the separate ports. Some of these demands are admittedly far-fetched and put in to be cast out.

Should Management List Demands?A m em ber of the Jacksonville M ari-

time Association, which negotiates for managem ent in Jacksonville, suggested the companies work up their own list of demands to spread on the tables with those of the ILA but the suggestion was not pursued.

Reluctance of Southeast port man-

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agement to come out swinging and take the initiative from the ILA can be traced to the traditional concept of leaving the hard negotiations to New York. Rather than “Break the New York H abit,” the Southern firms (called “out ports” by the New Yorkers) sit on their collective hands until Gleason has come to some sort of agreement with the big firms in M anhattan where his own local is involved.

Gleason is trying desperately to force the industry into writing a single na-tional contract and, as one man has put it, “export all the mistakes of New York to everyone else.”

This approach, it is noted, would be the salvation of New Y ork but would wreck many of the other ports— w ork-ing to the disadvantage of ILA m em -bers in the “out ports” as well as m an-agement.

If the big shipping companies accept the $17,565 per year G A I, eight week vacation and $500 per month pensions which Gleason seeks in New Y ork and have to bank-roll the same deals in “out ports,” it is a safe bet to assume they will scratch the “out ports” from their itineraries and avoid the burden of supporting large ILA memberships throughout the nation.

Gleason Alone Would ProfitIt will help Gleason, but wreck the

locals elsewhere.This has created a common interest

between longshoremen and the em-ployers in the Southeast ports and the ability of these men— white and black — to recognize the com mon interest and break their New Y ork habits may well determine whether any of them have security of income in the future.

There is a way out of the confusion, and it could prove to be a benefit to all provided the negotiators in the South-east seek the solution during Septem-ber and set the national pattern here rather than in New York.

A firm which has analyzed the situa-tion in South F lorida (Canaveral to M i-ami) has determined that G leason’s demands would cost South F lorida em-ployers over $2,000,000 a year to make up the difference above hourly earnings and GAL That $2,000,000 may look like peanuts com pared to the $30,000,- 000 deficit which New Y ork employers are being called upon to m ake up this year, but it is sufficient to bankrupt the industry as it exists today in the South.

Magnify that figure by the cost at J a c k s o n v i l le , T a m p a , S a v a n n a h , Charleston, Pensacola, and W ilmington, and the cost to the Southeast would probably reach $15,000,000. It is im-possible, especially in view of the straight time, pension and other in-creases the ILA claims it will demand.

It is no wonder, therefore, that em-

Talk to Al Watkins about your Puerto Rico cargo. He delivers.Al W atk ins is execu tive v ice p re s id en t o f Red S ta ck ’s new C aribe H yd ro -T ra ile r serv ice . He know s every step o f the fre ig h t business. As a long -tim e m anager of m arine opera tions, he know s tha t end too. He, and a ll C aribe H yd ro -T ra ile r pe rsonne l, bo th a floa t and ashore, have ba ckg ro und exp e rience in ocean -go ing transp o rta tio n tha t has d is ting u ish ed Red S tack in every area o f its opera tion .

Mammoth barges haul roll-on, roll-off truck trailers.

C aribe H yd ro -T ra ile r is the firs t super barge serv ice betw een M iam i and San Juan, PR. Barges ca rry 90 fo rty - foo t loaded tru c k tra ile rs on a s in g le deck. T rans it tim e is less than 4 days. Now you have a d ire c t rou te fo r sh ipp ing m anu fac tu red goods, c o n s tru c tio n m ateria ls , au tom ob iles , food p roduc ts , and pe rishab les in re fr ig e ra te d un its, both to and from P uerto R ico. Let A l W atk ins te ll you all abou t it.

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“It stands to reason that if ship-owners are required to pay enor-mous sums into a guaranteed an-nual wage program they will con-centrate at as few ports as possible.

“Without a reasonable approach to this particular matter, some Union locals may well wind up with a ‘good’ conduct, but soon find they have no work.”

Nickinson went on to note the full im pact on the smaller ports:

“We would hope that Union leaders, particularly in the smaller ports, would recognize that unreasonable demands particularly in the area of guaranteed annual wages may well cause the smaller ports to dry up completely.

porary interruption from the United States to overseas m arkets is experi-enced. Significant increases in costs w ithout attendant improvements in ef-ficiency can only result in higher charges to shippers which would make them less competitive in world m ar-kets.”

S/S DOCTOR LYKES (also pictured on cover) is the largest dry cargo carrier in the world. It is the firs t of three such ships, com prising a new merchant class known as SEABEES, being bu ilt fo r Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., by the Quincy Ship-building Division of General Dynamics. Major feature of the 875-foot-long cra ft is its specially designed stern elevator, which perm its loading and discharge o f cargo away from crowded docking facilities. The elevator can lift up to 2,000 tons at a tim e to any of the ship’s three decks. Each SEABEE displaces 51,000 tons fu lly loaded, and can carry up to 38 custom-designed barges, 1,800 standard containers or more than 24,000 tons o f ro ll-on /ro ll-o ff cargo. Launched on July 10, the Doc-to r Lykes will go into service early in 1972. The ship is named after the Florida physician/cattlem an who founded Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.

ployers are worried and uncertain.“Florida Journal of Commerce” sur-

veyed the employers and the ILA local presidents for their comments.

“The strike will probably last 85 days. Some ports will be out of busi-ness. The airlines will gain out of Florida,” was one pessimistic report by an official asking anonymity.

“Let’s all hope that some type of agreement can be worked out that will eliminate chaos on this coast,” was the comment of W ilmington’s Richard E. Barker.

Barker, like Carl Opper of Jackson-ville, C. W. Pidgeon of Savannah, and John C. Gorman of Port Everglades is a management negotiator with the ILA and understandably cautious about any public comment.

A few employers are in an easier position to be quoted, however, and their observations are significant in their basic optimism in the face of an ap-parently hopeless situation.

E. P. (Ted) Nickinson, president of the Florida Ports Council and vice pres-ident of the John A. M erritt & Co. at Pensacola, said:

“A prolonged strike would be disas-trous for the dock workers, shipowners and the general shipping public. N ot only would the dock workers suffer loss of wages and the shipowners loss of revenues, the long term losers would be both in terms of loss of United States markets abroad because of the inevita-ble shift to other suppliers when tem-

Bleak as the above may sound, it is so obviously true that many believe union negotiators will recognize its tru th and w ork out a solution with which all can live and prosper.

Return now, if you will, to the very interesting com ments made by Landon Williams and noted in the opening paragraphs.

The Longshore PositionBasically, he has said that a longshore

worker does not really settle down and become a steady and productive worker until he acquires the white m an’s habits of family, home and financial respon-sibility. To do this, a man needs con-fidence in his income. W ithout that confidence, it is easier for him to drift, leave responsibility to the women of his race, and work indifferently.

LASH & SEABEE vessels may become real beneficiaries of the new longshore labor contract, according to one Florida steamship agent and stevedore. The units, such as these 11 LASH lighters on the Mississippi, lend themselves to loading accord-ing to pre-set schedules— avoiding the heavy cost o f overtime and double-time stevedore work.

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Williams has implied tha t the black longshore worker wants to become a “professional” at his chosen work. He wants to acquire skills w hich enable him to find easier work and less sweat as he grows older. H e wants assurance that the home he pays for will be his to enjoy when he, like the white man, is no longer able to work and produce.

It is not an unreasonable wish.And, our survey indicates the

black longshore worker in the South can have that wish and build a comfortable future for himself and his family if he goes about his negotiations in the same manner as a “professional” or a “business man” seeking a mutually beneficial contract.

M ost employers will concede, it seems, that a basic increase of about 10% is proper and in line with what is being obtained by other labor groups this year. Over the period of a long-term contract, an increase of up to 35% is expected by some and m ay not be contested provided the ILA will forego feather-bedding, slow-downs and exces-sive gang size requirements.

We do not know of a single em-ployer who is opposed to the concept of the GAI provided it can be built on sound business principles to assure in-comes to those worthy men who, by their past records, have shown a desire and willingness to w ork regularly.

Growth is Assured Barring a serious recession, the

Southeastern ports can expect a con-tinuing growth in trade averaging be-tween 5% and 10% annually. Individ-ual ports will fluctuate. Cargoes will shift from break-bulk to LASH and containers, and some will continue to move in unit loads or break bulk. I t can be taken fo r certain that the am ount of back-breaking, hard, sweat labor will diminish. H azardous work will diminish. The num ber of men needed to move the same am ount of goods will diminish.

But, so long as productivity in-creases, whether it be through mechanization, less feather-bed-ding, or good old-fashioned com-mon sense, the total amount of available work is predictable over the year’s time.Labor requirem ents cannot be pre-

dicted day-by-day, o r week-by-week as Gleason hopes in his “dem and” to change G A I into G uaranteed Weekly Wage (GWW) or 40-hour w ork weeks. There will inevitably be some peaks and valleys which labor m ust average out the same as management.

But the w ork will be there and the G A I can be developed over a period of time.

To do it, the union will be required to police its membership better than it has in the past. W hile the employers can reasonably look out fo r and assure an annual level of income for men who have earned it through regular perform ance in the past, they cannot and should not be expected to assume annual obligations to every casual w orker who shows up on the dock— no more than W illiam’s homeowner should be expected to promise an an-nual income fo r life to the repairm an who fixed his auto or TV set.

Longshoremen have been taught to fear m echanization and to place stum -bling blocks in fron t o f every move made by m anagem ent to reduce the backbreaking sweat labor of form er years. The new ILA dem ands are full of devices intended solely to erase the advantages of the container and the seagoing barge or lighter-aboard-ship (LASH).

LASH System to Expand One em ployer whom we surveyed

views the LASH and container systems in an entirely different m anner. He is the one who believes the current round of labor negotiations will provide the greatest stimulus yet to LASH and SEABEE systems.

This employer keenly observed that loading and unloading of con-

tainers, LASH and SEABEE units can be programmed to take place during straight-time working hours, the professional man’s 8 to 5 rou-tine. Whereas conventional break- bulk ships must be loaded hurried-ly and at great expense with large gangs of men working on time- and-a-half or double-time today but laid off for the remainder of the week, a constant volume of work on LASH or container units can assure a steady flow of work on an efficient basis.

Converted into term s of the GAI, it creates a m eans of providing steady em ploym ent on a basis which the em-ployer (and the shipper) can afford. The work is not only steady, but it is more desirable than work on the hold of a conventional ship on a hot Summer or cold W inter day. It is also less danger-ous, with all that implies to the indi-vidual w orker and management alike.

Gleason’s Open DoorIn his national demands, ILA Presi-

dent Gleason specified that wage guar-antees “shall be negotiated on a port to port basis, based on the highest number of hours worked in each port in any contract year since the contract year beginning O ctober 1, 1964.”

If the union is willing to negotiate and w ork out the details with a view to the best interest of its true “profession-als” there should be no problem in reaching an early settlement.

There may, in fact, be no strike at all in the South if the union is convinced managem ent is negotiating on a “good faith” basis and tha t the agreements reached will be retroactive to October 1.

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TAMPA PHOSPHATE & GENERAL CARGO term inals are located at the head of Tampa Bay, necessitating ex-penditure of more than $100-m illion to provide a badly needed 44-ft. channel to the term inals, all of which have been expanded during recent years. In foreground, left, is the privately owned Port Sutton complex which was enlarged during the past Summer by addition of industria l sites to the le ft of the main slip. At right, foreground, are the Seaboard Coast Line and Eastern Associated Terminal phosphate loaded on East Tampa Bay. Opposite them may be seen the Holland Terminal trac t filled and graded fo r re-location of gen-eral cargo facilities currently operating in the old po rt area looping around downtown Tampa.

Hopes Shattered—

Tampa W ill Settle for 4 2 Ft. It That W ill Advance Project

By Howard Gorham

TA M PAAny local hopes for a quick deepen-

ing of Tam pa H arbor have been shat-tered.

Col. Avery S. Fullerton, Jacksonville district engineer for the U. S. Arm y Corps of Engineers, told port and civic leaders here the $102 million project couldn’t be completed in less than 10 years.

. . if you had $100 million today, it would take six or seven years to complete the physical work,” he added.

Fullerton estimated three years to

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clear up environmental factors and four years to do the construction.

But the Arm y official also assured the group, “you are away ahead of norm al schedule. If you get it built 10 years from now, you will still be ahead.”

And, he said, “it may seem torturous to you but it’s moving at a pretty fast clip.”

Fullerton was referring to a $200,000 congressional appropriation for the project which has both pleased and distressed port officials.

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They view it as an acceleration of the project which was authorized early this year. Jacksonville, they pointed out, had to wait eight years before get-ting an appropriation. Also, the funding w asn't in President N ixon’s present budget and the fact it was added by Congress, they say, shows the national legislature feels the project is important.

Ecological DelaysBut they are distressed it calls for

additional studies of factors they say have been covered in earlier reports.

F or one, the m atter of exploring the substitution of off-shore docks near the m outh of Tam pa Bay. This has been explored in the C orps’ earlier feasibility study, as well as one by Continental Oil Co., and the outcom e was negative. Pumping phosphate, the port’s m ajor export, is potentially very harm ful, en-vironmentally, they say.

As for the environment, said Port D irector Guy Verger, the Tam pa Port A uthority has a $300,000 contract with the U. S. Geological Survey for a cur-

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rent study of the harbor and the effects of the deepening.

Settle for 42 Ft.?The appropriation also called for a

review of whether a 42-foot, rather than 44-foot depth, would be accept-able. Verger said, as far as the harbor deepening job was concerned, the 42- foot depth was acceptable. But he sug-gested the extra two feet were fo r safety considerations and a technical decision on this should be made by the Corps of Engineers and the U. S. Coast Guard.

Information On Hand Verger said the inform ation being

sought by Congress could be extract-ed from the previous studies and the extra two-foot depth decision could be quickly m ade by the engineers and Coast Guard. He said this would en-able the port to avoid delays so it can be included in the president’s 1972-73 budget—to be presented to Congress in January— but Fullerton expressed some doubt about this. H e said he probably wouldn’t get the funds to conduct the study in time.

The local port officials and civic leaders had been thinking in terms of, perhaps, five years to deepen the h a r-bor, which presently has a 34-foot depth. Large ships go out at 60-70%

capacity.Meanwhile, Verger said, the port is

exploring alternate methods of financ-ing the deepening. One such plan in -volves dredging the inner harbor and selling the spoil to the state to build the roads. He said he didn’t know if this could be used for the entire p ro j-ect, or when it might occur, if it does.

Plan May Help Channel Work

TAM PAFlorida and local officials have come

up with a plan which could help pay for deepening of Tam pa H arbor and expedite removal of general cargo oper-ations from downtown Tam pa to Hookers Point, they say.

It was disclosed to Tam pa Bay A rea leaders by Tam pa P ort D irector Guy Verger and Florida Transportation Secretary Edward G. Mueller.

It would:• Eliminate the expensive loop the

proposed Crosstown Expressway wouldtake to avoid the Y bor Channel by slashing straight across the channel and closing the north end of it to heavy ship traffic.

• Send affected shipping businesses to Hookers Point.

• Take port facilities away from Garrison Channel and leave the w ater-front area available for expansion by downtown Tam pa. It also would open a way to Seddon Island.

• Deepen Tampa harbor to 41 feet w ithout waiting for unavailable federal funds by using a revenue bond issue. M aterial from the bottom would be sold to the State D epartm ent of Trans-portation for building highways and expressways. The income would be used to help pay off the bonds.

Save MillionsM ueller said the proposed change in

the route of the expressway would save millions of dollars. He said the express-way, crossing the channel over a 20- foot high bridge, would still permit some w ater craft to pass.

Verger noted indications business is slowing for Y bor shipping companies. Long range plans call for elimination of privately owned docks at Garrison and W est Seddon channels to let the city build down to the w aterfront p rop-erty. This hinges on w hat future plans for Seddon Island are developed by its owners, the Seaboard Coastline Rail-road. SCL said it hasn’t decided.

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"Break-through" Reported in Test Shipment of Melons to UK Stores

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The first three test shipments of Florida watermelons to London have been completed and all participants report a total success. F or the first time, Londoners were able to buy the larger American melons.

The first melons left the A. D uda & Sons farm in Felda via truck to N or-folk; waited on the dock four days; were loaded on a U. S. Line container ship and arrived in London on the 15th day after leaving the farm.

The next day the melons were in 20 stores of Safeway, Ltd. Three days later some of the stores w ere sold out and the Safeway central office was im-pressed enough to order three m ore shipments for immediate delivery. The follow-up orders were received in Lon-don July 6.

New techniques involved in or devel-oped for this special project included packaging the watermelons in corru-gated fiberboard cartons, palletization of the cartons, modifying a van container and installing a forced air ventilation system on the van to keep the melons at the right tem perature and keep sea spray out.

Participants in the project included the United States D epartm ent of A gri-culture Research Service, T ransporta-tion and Packaging Station in Orlando and Rotterdam , Holland; the N ational W atermelon Grow ers and D istributors Association of Lakeland, A. D uda &

Sons, U. S. Foreign Agriculture Ser-vice in London, the U. S. Agricultural attache in London and J. O. Simms, Ltd. of London.

Objectives of the test shipments were to evaluate marketing, prom otion and acceptance of U. S. watermelons in London retail stores and to determine if larger melons can be m arketed in E u-rope when they are cut in quarters or halves. The overall cost of transporta-tion and m arketing of the U. S. melons in the United Kingdom or European m arkets was another factor monitored.

PalletizationThe new techniques of cartoning

melons and palletizing them into a large box-type van that is pu t on wheels or bogeys for movement to and off the ship were m andatory. This was be-lieved the best and most efficient m eth-od to handle the melons.

Researchers knew that watermelons shipped without refrigeration would cost half as m uch in transportation rates. To test the shipm ent without refrigeration, “marine plugs” for venti-lator openings were made w aterproof and suction fans were installed to draw air in when there were no winds at sea.

The N ational W aterm elon Growers and D istributors Association supplied the prom otion materials and arranged fo r D uda to provide the melons. The U. S. Foreign Agricultural Services paid all the ocean freight charges on the shipm ent and conducted the marketing

prom otion once the melons reached London.

The U. S. D. A .’s Russell Hines in Rotterdam , checked the melons on their arrival for damage and loss of quality. H ines also arranged for pictures of the unloading process as well as following the melons into the British stores and instructed an in-store merchandising technique.

Larry Risse, U. S. D. A. T ransporta-tion and Facilities Research Branch Of-fice in Orlando, said observations prove that melons can be shipped in the venti-lated vans and that the m arket for Florida watermelons is there in the United Kingdom and Europe. He ex-plained that the Grey Hybrids weigh in the neighborhood of 20 pounds. This, he said, is in contrast to 2 to 8 pound melons Europeans are accustom-ed to. Londoners have been receiving the smaller melons from Chile, South America, Israel, Italy and Southern France.

Adrian Chapman, president of the Florida W aterm elon Growers and Dis-tributors Association, expressed delight in the success of this trial shipment and in the acceptance of F lorida melons in the London market. The opening of the European m arket to this type m ar-ket melon will help all growers in F lo r-ida, Chapm an said. H e complimented the U. S. D. A., Florida D epartm ent of Agriculture for their ingenuity and initiative in conducting this test.

Loesche To Head Tropicana Citrus Export Programs

BRADENTONTropicana Products Inc. has hired

Walter C. Loesche, international m ar-keting expert with the Florida Citrus Commission, to head up its own drive to expand overseas sales.

Loesche joined the Bradenton firm on Aug. 15 as director of its international marketing division.

“Mr. Loesche is the most qualified man in the nation to head a European citrus-m arketing program ,” said T rop-icana President Anthony T. Rossi in making the announcement.

Loesche gained his knowledge of E u-ropean m arketing from several years of living there, first as a student and then as an officer in the U. S. Army, plus his experience with the Citrus Com mis-sion.

A fter military service, he joined Tam pa’s Exchange N ational Bank in 1963, leaving in 1967 to join the Citrus Commission.

Tropicana is the largest U. S. p ro-ducer of pure chilled citrus juices and related products. It has distribution in 13 European countries at present.

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ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE, the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s M /S Nordic Prince docked at the new Pier 7 cruise ship term inal on Dodge Island at the New Port of Miami. This aerial photo shows other cruise ships lin ing the wharf along the main shipping channel. Lower photo shows appearance of the term inal build ing from the land side. Construction workers cleared the area tem porarily to perm it handling passengers and luggage through the building July 23. The ship began its regular cruise schedules on July 31.

Norwegian Caribbean Line To Open Service at 3 Mid-Atlantic Ports

MIAMI

Norwegian Caribbean Lines an -nounced the selection of Baltimore, Philadelphia and N orfolk as its newest originating ports for a series of nine Spring and Fall cruises.

The first of the new sailings from Baltimore will be a 5-day cruise to Nassau aboard the new 16,200 tons M /S Skyward departing April 3, 1972. On April 8, the ship will sail to San Juan and St. Thom as for an 8-day

cruise. U pon her return to Baltimore on the morning of April 16, she will depart the same afternoon fo r a 7-day cruise to Berm uda and Nassau.

In addition to the Spring schedule, Norwegian Caribbean Lines will use its newest ship, M /S Southward, (which will be commissioned November 6, 1971) for a series of three Fall cruises from Baltimore and N orfolk to Ber-m uda, Nassau, San Juan and St. Thomas.

The first of these cruises aboard the sleek 17,000 tons liner will be an 8-day cruise to Berm uda and Nassau leaving Baltimore October 14, 1972, with an additional em barkation at Norfolk, October 15. N ext on the agenda will be a 5-day cruise from Baltimore to Ber-m uda departing October 22, followed by an 8-day cruise to San Juan and St. Thom as which will depart from Balti-more October 27.

Philadelphia has also been added to the N orwegian Caribbean Lines sched-ule with three Fall sailings aboard M /S Southward: two 5-day cruises to Ber-m uda, September 26 and October 1. and an 8-day cruise to San Juan and St. Thomas, departing October 6, 1972.

A nnouncem ent of the new schedules was m ade by Norw egian Caribbean Lines’ vice president, Reginald M artine, Jr., who noted that “the extended N or-wegian Caribbean Lines’ schedules are in response to our com m itm ent to travel agents and the public alike” and added that if the service was well supported initially, the Miami-based cruise line would continue to return and increase its schedule.

CharlestonIn 1969, N orwegian Caribbean Lines

initiated cruises from Charleston with a pair of Berm uda cruises by its M /S Sunward. In 1970, the schedule was extended to four cruises using the M /S Skyward, w ith a capacity almost twice that of M /S Sunward. All these cruises were either sold out o r at near capacity. This year the cruise line announced a series of nine cruises from Charleston.

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M/V Floridian Resumes Operation In Puerto Rico Trade for M & Ml

M IAM IThe self-propelled ro-ro ship M /V

Floridian was back in the Puerto Rican trade last m onth, operating now under the banner of M arine and M arketing International Corporation.

The ship is the same used by South Atlantic and Caribbean Line during a long but unsuccessful effort to establish a profitable service from Miami to San Juan during the past few years.

The new operators reportedly ob -tained consent from seafaring unions for reduced manning requirements which should enable the vessel to oper-ate profitably in the future. T he changes m et with resistance in the form of a temporary strike in San Juan, but m an-agement went into court to obtain in-junctions against this tactic.

The “F lorid ian” is on a week-end service departing Miami every Friday and arriving in San Juan on Mondays, according to Eduardo Garcia, vice pres-ident and general manager. T he ship docks at the new Port of M iami on Dodge Island and the A rm y terminal base a t San Juan.

The vessel carries conventional and refrigerated 40 ft. trailers as well as 40 and 20 ft. containers in addition to automobiles, heavy lifts and other out- sized cargoes.

Garcia was form erly associated with Peralta Shipping C orporation as opera-tions manager. P rior to that, he had been with Seatrain Lines in Puerto Rico as well as G race Line as a consultant in port operations for South America and the Caribbean.

Jam es W ingate is vice president and m arine m anager fo r the service, repre-sented in New Y ork by T. J. Stevenson & Co., Inc., general agents, and in San Juan by Colon & Villalon.

Thom as Souran is chairm an of the M arine and M arketing International Board of Directors.

2nd Atlantic Line Containership Now Serving Caribbean

NEW YORKAtlantic Lines’ new containership, the

M /V Atlantic Jam aican, was delivered to the line in R otterdam July 15 and sailed to New Y ork to join her sister ship, the M /V A tlantic Bermudian, in weekly service from the U. S. East Coast to Bermuda and fortnightly ser-vice to Virgin Islands and Jamaica.

Cruising at a speed of 15 knots, the ships are serviced by on-board 35-ton cranes and a roll-on, roll-off facility which enables them to sustain cargo operations with a minimal utilization of side wharfage, which is limited in the Islands.

The two ships are also able to serve Baltimore and N ew port News, accord-ing to Chester, Blackburn & Roder, general agents.

Bay Agencies, Inc. of Baltimore has been appointed port and sales agents fo r the service in Baltimore. Bay Agen-cies is a new com pany “heavily com -m itted to container operations,” accord-ing to CB&R.

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Tampa Probes Needs for Fireboat Acquisition; Financing Is Needed

TA M PA

A $300,000 port fire here has led to renewed charges that Tam pa has inadequate fire boat protection.

Hillsborough Rep. Richard Hodes said the fire, which destroyed half a warehouse at H ookers Point, pointed up the need and he suggested term inal operators ought to be held responsible for providing the port with an adequate fireboat.

A longtime advocate of better fire protection fo r the port, Hodes pointed out the fire came “dangerously close” to several dozen oil tanks which were about 100 yards away on three sides of the warehouse.

“Some answers need to be found,” said Hodes, “the port operators need to get together and see if they can provide for fire protection.”

Lakeland Firm Wins Another Job For Rumanian Fertilizer Industry

LAKELANDW ellman-Power Gas, Inc., of Lakeland, has received its

third contract since the first of the year for design engi-neering work for the Rum anian fertilizer industry.

The latest contract involves w ork for R O M C H IM ’s nitro-phosphate fertilizer complex at Bucharest, which is doubling its capacity from 5,400 to 10,800 metric tons per day by the addition of two production units engineered by Wellman-Power Gas.

The local firm is an affiliate of the Power Gas Corpo-ration, Ltd., of England.

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Miami/Tampa Co-Terminus Air Service Sought in Bay Area

T A M P AW ith a modem , new $80 million air

terminal as the carrot, Tam pa aviation interests are seeking to get m ore inter-national air service for the Tam pa Bay Area.

The route they are following is that of having T am pa designated a co-ter-minal with Miami. This would sidestep lengthy procedures before the Civil Aeronautics Board in W ashington and mean that any airlines flying out of

M iam i would automatically be able, if it chose, to use Tam pa as an alternative gateway. Foreign airlines, however, would have to have their bilateral agreements with the U. S. amended.

A task force has been form ed by the G reater Tam pa Cham ber of Commerce, which nam ed as president George Gage, chief executive officer o f the General Telephone Co. of Florida, headquar-tered in Tam pa.

Capacity LevelsThe task force has cited Tam pa as

the logical spot for an international gateway on the grounds that A tlanta and Miami, the largest airports in the Southeast, are already operating above capacity.

On the other hand, they continue, Tam pa thus far is operating at 15-20% of its air capacity.

Also, they point out, Tam pa In ter-national A irport already has easy ser-vice to 60% of the U. S. to feed the international service.

Present ServiceTam pa’s air service at present con-

sists of daily flights to Canada by Air Canada and thrice-weekly one-stop flights to Mexico City by Pan American W orld Airways. This will increase, possibly this year, as the result of a new bilateral air agreement with the M exican government which gives the U. S. new non-stop authority between the two points. Pan Am, Eastern and N ational airlines are vying for the new non-stop routes in proceedings before the Civil Aeronautics Board.

Miami PictureOn the other hand, Miami has 920

international flights per week, the task force points out. I t goes on to say that by 1975, some 1.7 million passengers from various parts of the nation will overfly Tam pa on their way to inter-national flights originating in Miami.

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Uiterwyk Clarifies Status of " National Line" Provisions

TAM PAG uatem ala Line and Flom erca Line are both recognized

by the Guatem alan government as “national lines” and enjoy equal status in the right to carry Ley de Fom ento cargo.

Jan C. Uiterwyk Com pany has issued a m em orandum to shippers, freight forw arders and cargo brokers clarifying, the status of the two competing services. U iterwyk C om -pany, representing G uatem ala Line, noted that the Congress of the Republic of G uatem ala grants certain protection to their national steamship lines, defined as:

(A) Those belonging to the government or those in which the government has part ownership.

(B) Those created by private enterprise with 75% of the common stock owned in Guatem ala, using ships of Guatem alan registry, flying the G uatem alan flag and with vessels of no less than 2,000 ton capacity.Properly authorized national lines can at the same time contract services with other national lines o r foreign com -panies.

Rate Bureaus Oppose Increase In Intrastate Truck Tariffs

TALLAHASSEEThe Public Service Commission is considering whether

it should give F lorida intrastate truckers rate hikes up to 359 per cent.

It has held two hearings and granted tem porary increases in some fields. These consisted of a 7.5% jum p on less than truck loads, an increase in minimum charges from $6.50 to $7, and a few others.

Opposition is coming from the G reater M iami Traffic Assn., G reater Tam pa Cham ber of Com merce and other organizations over Florida. These groups say the increases, if approved, would be 20, 40, 60, and up to 359% . They conceded, however, the increases would be relatively slight in comparison with overall revenues by truck lines hauling interstate loads.

The increases would come through a proposal of the rate bureau to drastically alter the present rate system.

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Cox Named Outward Traffic Manager

Keneth L. Cox has been nam ed Outward Freight M anager for the M i-ami offices of Shaw Company, a divi-sion of Luckenbach Steamship Co.

Cox came to Shaw Co. in May from Chester, Blackburn and Roder where he held the position of line manager. H e was with C. B. & R. for four years.

Shaw Co. are agents for Booth Line, NYK Line, Finn Line, Independent G ulf Line, Venezuelan Line and W ind-ward Shipping.

Hendry Dredges Will Enlarge South Basin At Port Everglades

PO RT EVERGLADESContracts fo r harbor improvements

totalling approxim ately $700,000 were awarded recently by the Port Everglades Authority.

Largest contract went to H endry C or-poration, of Tam pa, on their low bid of $443,000 for dredging the south ex-tension of the turning basin. The p ro j-ect will take 150 calendar days to com -plete and calls fo r the excavation of155,000 cubic yards of material.

Industrial Contracting Co., of F ort Lauderdale, will construct a bulkhead a t the west end of Slip 3 a t a cost of $161,500. A separate purchase of steel for bulkheading costs $43,500.

Sisto Opens Edge Act Bank at M iam i For Irving Trust

M IA M IJohn A. Sisto, a vice president of

Irving T rust Com pany, has opened the bank’s new Edge A ct subsidiary, the Irving Interam erican Bank in Miami.

The new foreign banking corporation providing financing, foreign exchange, export-im port assistance and other in-ternational banking services is located in the Alfred I. D uPont building.

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Sisto has been active in Latin American and Caribbean banking for 10 years. P rior to joining the Irving he was a vice president of the F irst N ational Bank of Boston, traveling extensively in Latin America.

He is a graduate of Brown University and attended New Y ork University’s G raduate School of Business.

Sisto is a form er treasurer of the Pan American Society of New England and a form er president of the Massachusetts- Antioquia Partners of Alliance, spon-sored by the U. S. S tate Departm ent. H e is also a m em ber of the American Kennel Club, form er president of the W achusett Kennel Club, and governor of the U. S. K erry Blue Terrier Club.

M /S Finn-Amer ReturnsPA L M BEACH

The Finnish flag m otorship, M /S Finn-A m er, returned to Florida August 4 to discharge 1,300 tons of newsprint at the Port of Palm Beach, where it is represented by Shaw Company.

The ship had m ade its maiden voyage to F lorida in June, discharging news-print a t P ort Canaveral and Miami.

Capt. Folger Relieves Fugaro as USCG Officer at Tampa

TAM PACapt. Anthony F. Fugaro, former

U. S. Coast G uard com m ander in Jack-sonville and a key figure in the cleanup of the Delian Apollon oil spill here in 1970, has been transferred to Sault Ste. M arie, Mich.

He was replaced by Capt. Frederick W. Folger, of the Coast G uard head-quarters in Washington. H e reported the first of September.

Fugaro, who’s been captain of the port here since 1969 and was promoted to his new rank in June, will take over his new chores in mid-September. These involve a new Coast G uard program aimed at keeping the G reat Lakes open during the w inter months to increase the ore-shipping trade.

Fugaro, a 43-year-old native of New Y ork City and a graduate of the U. S. Coast G uard Academy, was in charge of clean-up operations after the Delian Apollon spilled some 20,000 gallons of oil into Tam pa Bay in February, 1970. The spill produced nationwide news coverage and was considered a major factor in enactm ent of state and federal anti-oil spill laws.

For his role in the clean-up, Fugaro received a second Coast G uard com-mendation medal and his unit received a unit commendation.

Blair Smith Named Director of Ryder

M IA M IBlair Smith, a form er IBM executive,

has been elected to the board of direc-tors of the Ryder System Inc. of Miami.

Since early in 1971, Smith has been a consultant to Ryder in the development of advanced management inform ation systems. Smith, 56, was the originator of the concept of today’s airline passen-ger reservation systems.

Annual Ports MeetingM IA M I

The annual meeting of the South A t-lantic and Caribbean Ports Association will be held at the Sheraton Four A m -bassadors Hotel here Friday and Satur-day, O ctober 15-16.

M iami Port D irector Rear Adm. I. J. Stephens is president of the Association.

Clarke W ith CB&R/MiamiM IA M I

William J. Clarke is assistant sales m anager for Chester, Blackburn & R o-der, Inc., a t Miami, where he has trans-ferred after three years of service in CB&R's New Y ork office as Miami sales representative.

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Tampa Builds Air, Water Link With Mexican Firms

T A M P AAn already significant trade with

Mexico has picked up with increased steamship service and a new $4.5 m il-lion air-water trade link.

M ontezuma of Florida, based in Merida, Yucatan, has started up three- times-a-month service which ultimately will be upped to once a week, said M ontezum a agent Peter Torres.

The new $4.5 million trade link is supplied by Supreme X-ray Co., which started up last fall at an old building on South H oward Avenue in Tampa.

Peter Breijo, president of the firm, said it is shipping x-ray film, chemicals and accessories to Mexico for use by the national government in its medical program.

The film is being flown directly from the m anufacturers— G A F, in Bingham-ton, N. Y., by way of New York. Breijo said the chemicals are being shipped from Tam pa to V era Cruz on the new M ontezum a of Florida service.

Breijo said the accessories— such things as illuminators, to read the x-rays —are being flown by air cargo. Breijo said he had a five-year contract to sell she goods with a private individual in Mexico who sells to the M exican government.

Torres said he currently is using three ships which are sailing out of dock space at 13th Street at M etroport. He s importing tobacco and exporting ertilizers, grains, trucks, automobiles md heavy industrial equipment.

Torres said this should reach some '00,000 tons a year.

Tam pa Port A uthority officials said otal trade last year with Mexico was learly 750,000 net tons with a value >f about $12 million, mostly in sul- >hur and phosphates.

Coals to Newcastle; Sugar to Palm Beach

W EST PALM BEACHSeven thousand tons of raw sugar

/ere im ported here from Swaziland, kfrica, on August 9.

Some would com pare the operation o “carrying coal to Newcastle,” but here are very sound business reasons or the operation. The African sugar /as received here to help supply the American market, which cut itself off rom traditional sources in Cuba.

Cargo discharged at the Port of Palm leach was trucked to nearby M oore faven on the west bank of Lake Okee- hobee where it is being refined by the xlades County Sugar Growers Cooper- tive Association.

Ports Council Meets In Tampa September 10

TAMPAD irectors of F lorida Ports Council

have scheduled a meeting in Tam pa on September 10, a t which tim e plans will be advanced fo r the Eleventh Florida W orld T rade Conference to be held at Port Everglades M ay 11-12, 1972.

President E. P. (Ted) Nickinson also announced the directors will consider the vacancy created by the resignation in July of Mrs. Marilyn Vickers, execu-tive secretary of the Council in its T al-lahassee office.

3 Jamaica Firms Merge Under IT T

JAMAICAThree of Jam aica’s m ajor firms have

merged as subsidiaries o f International Telephone and Telegraph (IT T ) oper-ations in Jamaica.

The resulting corporation, known as N ational Continental Corporation Lim -ited, is m ade up of N ational Continen-tal Foods Limited, N ational Packaging C orporation Limited and Key Homes Limited. N ational Continental Foods is a bakery; Key Hom es is a hom e con-struction firm, and N ational Packaging is a large packaging firm. ITT holds a m inority interest in the new corporation.

Julio Del Valle Is Given New Post

M IAMIJulio D el Valle has been named as-

sistant vice president of United States F reight Com pany, parent company for several steamship interests operating in the P ort of Miami.

D el Valle has served as an assistant to U SF President Fred N . Melius, Jr., and will now be directly responsible for U. S. Freight subsidiary activities in-cluding Coordinated Caribbean T rans-port and Universal Alco, Ltd., at Miami.

(CCT operates roll-on, roll-off service between M iam i and Central America while Universal Alco operates the roll-on, roll-off passenger and cruise ship M /V Freeport between Miami, F ree-port and N assau in the Bahamas.)

American President Line Returns in '12

PORT EVERGLADESA m erican President Lines announced

the resum ption of passenger ship service out of Port Everglades in 1972.

The 19,000-ton “President W ilson” will depart April 9 on a 41-day cruise to the M editerranean and Black Sea. The second sailing will be M ay 20 from P ort Everglades to San Francisco.

the PORT ot PALM BEACH

. . . has your undivided attention. M aybe that’s why we’re called the personal port.W e can accomodate your heavy lift needs . . . roll-on, roll-off . . . bulk . . . container . . . or you name it.W e like to turn ’em around quicker.W rite or call: J. E . Jaudon, port m anager P. O. Box 9935, Riviera Beach, Florida 305-842-4201. Remember, with us, it’s a personal committment.The Port of Palm Beach.

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OFFICERS OF NEW PORT GROUP in Miami include (i-r) Frank A. Rovirosa, Narovi Shipping; Alec Boriss, Harrington & Company; Dewey Parker, Florida Motorships; Dade County Mayor Steve Clark (a v is ito r at group m eeting); John Foster, and Hector Calderon, Coordinated Caribbean Transport.

Ariadne Quits Mexico Service But Ferry and Air Lines Push Forward

M IA M IA steamship line is getting out of

the Florida-M exico vacation business in October, but three airlines are fight-ing over the privilege of getting in.

A Key W est-Yucatan ferry opera-tion is also being planned.

The dropout is Eastern Steamship Lines’ luxurious S /S A riadne, which has been running out of P ort Ever-glades to Mexico every Saturday with stops in Cozumel and Yukalpeten on Yucatan Peninsula. Ariadne is return-ing to its traditional shuttle service between P ort Everglades and the Bahamas.

Meanwhile, N ational, Eastern and

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J. D. Raulerson, Pres. 354-5472 2039 E. 11th Street Jacksonville

Pan American airlines are battling it out before the Civil Aeronautics Board for rights to operate a Tam pa-M exico City non-stop service.

N ational is convinced the Florida- Mexico m arket is lucrative and has prom ised to spend $400,000 prom oting the route during the first year— “near-ly ten times m ore than Eastern,” ac-cording to the airline officials.

Pan-Am has not disclosed the am ount of money it plans to spend.

The airline points out that Tam pa is “an excellent and natural gateway to Mexico City for the strong and growing cities of Florida. By every economic measure, the Tam pa Bay area is one of dynam ic growth.”

National noted that for the 1968- 1980 period, T am pa/S t. Petersburg/ Clearwater is forecast to rank sixth in U. S. personal income growth and tenth in population growth.”

“W ith proper prom otion in Mexico, F lorida is a natural tourist destination for M exicans,” the airline said.

Graulich Opens Freight Forwarding Service A t M iam i International

M IA M IRaymond J. Graulich, form er direc-

tor of international distribution for “T im e” and “Life” magazines, has o r-ganized a freight forw arding transporta-tion service at Miami International A ir-port.

The firm, operating under the name of G raulich International, has been li-censed by I.A.T.A. and the Federal M aritim e Commission. G raulich In ter-national will handle distribution to all points, w ith original emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Manolo Reboso Named To Commerce Position

M IA M IManolo Reboso has succeeded Rich-

ard Welsh as chief of the Bureau of International T rade Development of the F lorida D epartm ent of Com merce in Miami.

Welsh has been transferred to head-quarters of the departm ent in Tallahas-see and is specializing in work related to international trade in the north and central portion of the state.

Reboso has established offices of the departm ent at 301 Alm eria Street in Coral Gables.

Wackenhut Patrols Jacksonville Docks

M IA M IThe W ackenhut Corp. of Coral

Gables has been awarded a contract to provide security services for the marine and aviation facilities operated by the Jacksonville P ort Authority.

President George Wackenhut said the contract with the Port A uthority calls for establishing and maintaining a uni-form ed W ackenhut guard force a t Jack-sonville International A irport, Talley-rand Term inal, Blount Island Terminal and all other m arine and aviation divi-sion operations terminals in Jackson-ville.

A N T I L L E A N L I N E(Antillean Marine Shipping Corporation)

Weekly cargo Service from MIAMI, Florida to Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)

Port-au-Prince (Haiti)

R e fr ig e ra te d space ava ilab le — F a c ilitie s fo r L iq u id s , V eh ic le s , H e a v y E q u ip m e n ts

CONTAINER SERVICE AVAILARLE3050-3060 NW N. River Drive Cable: AMASCO M iam i, Fla. 33152

Phones:633 6361, 633-6362 TWX 305-696-3871

Q arr in g to n C O M P A N Y ,Steam ship agen ts . . . contracting stev ed o res

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St. Phillips Towing Joins Pipeline Firm in Project to Serve Disney World

TAMPAA Florida East Coast firm hopes to

begin laying down a 10-inch pipeline between here and Orlando at a total cost of some $11-12 million early this Fall.

Final details on the project are expected to be ironed out in August and the pipeline is expected to open up in January, 1972, with the huge new W alt Disney W orld as one of its customers.

The pipeline will be built by the Florida Storage and Pipeline Corp., in Titusville, in conjunction with St. Philips Towing Co.

A spokesman said the plan involves construction and operation of a $5 million to $5.5 million barge and tug, especially built for the service.

The barge will haul oil from Texas and Louisiana to Flookers Point in Tampa, where it will be relayed via the pipeline to the growing Central F lo r-ida Area.

33,000 dwt Barge PlannedMeanwhile, St. Philips has received

tentative approval for federal funds to construct the barge from The Federal M aritime Administration.

A spokesman said the 33,000-dead-weight ton tug and barge unit probably will be built at shipyards either at New Orleans or Baltimore.

E. M. Callis, vice president-develop- ment for the pipeline firm, said the pipeline will have a capacity of 48,000

THOMAS E. FLYNN & CO.

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FOREIGN FREIGHT FORWARDERS503 Pan American Bank Building

Miami, Florida 33132 cable: FLYNNANCO phone 377-0661

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M IA M I, Fla. (EVERY 15 DAYS) to the ATLANTIC COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA

ST. TOMAS de CASTILLA &PUERTO BARRIOS — GUATEMALA

EL SALVADOR (VIA P. BARRIOS) — EL SALVADORPUERTO CORTES — HONDURAS

Receiving cargo at Dodge Island, Miami

Caribbean Trading & Marine Co.141 N.E. 3rd Avenue Phone 373-9057M iam i, Florida 33132 Cable: AZTASH1P TWX 810-848-7204

TAMPA AGENT: Peninsular Steamship Co.

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m onths in Curacao due to mechanical problem s encountered on the first leg of the trip. The ship is expected to return to sea in about four months.

gallons every 24 hours. I t already has received approval from the State of Florida and other counties and m unici-palities lying between Tam pa and O r-lando, a m atter o f some 80 miles.

Callis is trying to wind up some last minute details in Tam pa.

H e said the system has 1,400 horse-power to push the oil through the 10- inch pipeline, with a pum ping station in A uburndale, approxim ately half way.

The pipeline will end at a special sta-tion in South Orlando fo r distribution for trucks in tha t general area.

Callis said there have been no p ro -tests from environm entalists to the pipeline, which he touted as safe, eco-nomical and pollution-free.

Queen Elizabeth Finally Makes i t to Hong Kong

HONG KONGThe one-time luxury liner “Queen

Elizabeth” arrived in Hong Kong last m onth after a five-month voyage from P ort Everglades, Florida.

The 83,000 ton ship, now know n as the S /S Seawise University, is to be outfitted here as a seagoing school for Chapm an College of Orange, Cali-fornia, a t a cost of about $4 million.

The ship was purchased last year by H ong Kong shipping magnate C. Y. Tung for $3,200,000 after a group of Philadelphia prom oters failed in their attem pt to convert the ship into a tourist attraction at P ort Ever-glades.

“Seawise University” m ade the voy-age eastward P ort Everglades to C ur-acao, Cape Town, Singapore and H ong K ong at a speed of about 10 knots, us-ing only six of the twelve boilers and two of the four engines aboard the ship. The vessel was delayed almost four

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Shop: 354-0134 Owner Res.: 396-1888

RUDOLPH F. MATZER & ASSOCIATES, INC.NAVAL ARCHITECTS MARINE ENGINEERS MARINE SURVEYORSPh. (904) 246-6438 13891 Atlantic Blvd Jacksonville. Fla. 32225 Ph. (305) 848-5223 127 Ocean Science Center Riviera Beach. Fla. 33404

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Regular refrigerated & dry cargo service from M iam i, Fla.

EVERY 15 DAYS to Cozumel, Progreso, Campeche,

Mexico; Belize, British Honduras;San Andres Island, Colombia

Colon, Panama; and Puntarenas, Costa Rica.

Receiving Cargo a t

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MIAMI, FLORIDAPhones: 635-8672 & 634-7210

Teletype: Tropical Radio 252019

AZTA LINERefrigerated, Dry Cargo Sailing — TAMPA & MIAMI

To/From Both Coasts — CENTRAL AMERICA WEST COAST — Every 10 days EAST COAST — Every 10 days

CURACAO & ARUBA, N. A., & COLOMBIA

PENINSULAR STEAMSHIP COMPANYP. O. Box 485 Phone: 229-7197Tampa, Florida TWX 810-876-0627

MIAMI AGENT: Caribbean Trading & Marine Co.

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MAKING UP TO M /V FREEPORT as it docks, a Belcher oil barge begins one of the state’s fastest refueling operations, pum ping 300 tons of fuel aboard the cruise ship in two hours.

M / V Freeport Takes Oil "On the Fly"From Belcher Tugs in Port of M iam i

M IA M ICan a busy cruise ship, which re-

mains in port just enough time to dis-charge and board new passengers, be refueled with 80,000 gallons of oil w ith-in three hours? It can.

Belcher Oil Com pany does it regular-ly for the Miami-based M /V Freeport,

T h e n e w e s t sh ip te rm in a l on theFLORIDA GULF COAST

is no w in fu l l opera tion at

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— or—F ille tte -G reen & C om pany

432-A M agnolia A ve .T e l. (9 0 4 ) 763-7675

John A. Merritt & Company P. O. B o x 1686 T e l. (9 0 4 ) 763-7013

S o u th ern S tea m sh ip A g en cy , In c . 406 J e n k s A v e . T e l. (9 0 4 ) 763-5361

which cruises to G rand Bahamas Island and Nassau four times a week.

The M /V Freeport formerly refueled at G rand Bahama where the six-hour process was no problem since it re-mained in port overnight. In Miami, however, the 14,000-ton luxury liner remains at its Dodge Island berth for a maximum of three hours.

In addition to fueling every three Weeks, the vessel also must unload and load cargo, replenish food and w ater supplies, change its linen, clean cabins and passageways and perform the nu-merous other details to prepare for another cruise.

To fill the F reeport’s tanks with 300 tons of “Interm ediate Tw o” fuel (which total 81,900 gallons), a Belcher oil barge joins the Freeport near the Miami Beach Coast G uard base as the ship enters G overnm ent Cut. Trailing just astern, the barge is jockeyed into posi-tion alongside and the fuel line locked into place while the F reeport is being docked.

M iam i Propeller Club Books Olsson, BentleyJohn P. Olsson, deputy undersecre-

tary of transportation in Washington, will address the Propeller Club, Port of Miami, at its m onthly meeting Sep-tember 16. Olsson’s address was an -nounced by the club’s second vice pres-ident, Donald J. Mahoney, in a sched-ule of program s carrying through June of next year.

Frank W. Cox is president of the club.The August 19 meeting of the club

was in celebration of the 181st Birthday of the U. S. Coast G uard and had as its theme “New W rinkles in Coast G uard Missions.”

Following is the complete schedule of meetings announced by Mahoney:

September 16: John P. Olsson, D ep-uty Undersecretary of Transportation, W ashington, D. C.

October 21: Business Meeting.November 15: The Hon. Helen De-

lich Bentley, Chairm an Federal M ari-tim e Commission.

December 16: Kenneth W. Whittaker, Special Agent in Charge— Federal Bu-reau of Investigation.

January 20: The American Institute of M arine Underwriters— Carl E. M c-Dowell, Exec. Vice President.

February 17: Com mittee of Interna-tional Docum entation, Arthur E. Baylis, Chairman.

March 16: St. Patrick’s Celebration— To be announced.

April 20: Latin American Night—To be announced.

May: M aritim e Day Celebration— Date and Speaker to be announced.

June 15: Business Meeting and Elec-tion.

Hull-Cargo-P&l Marine Insurance

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335 S.W. 27 Ave. Ph: 642-4500Miami, Fla. 33135 Cable: COLCORobert A. Fielder, Marine Manager

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• Caribbean & N o rth Coast South A m erica

. R o ll-o n R o ll-o ffP a n A m e r i c a n M a n L l n f * I n c W eekly service M ia m i tor u n A i n c r i c u n m a i l L i n e i n c . Cristobal, San Jose and a ll Panam a

R o ll-o n R o ll-o ff service every week A ruba, B onaire , Curacao, Jam ai

V irg in Islands & S t. M aarte n

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Loading fa b rica ted steel a t Tam pa.

S .C . Loveland Barges Steel Trusses From Tampa to New York

TAM PASome 330 tons of fabricated trusses,

the largest such shipment ever to go out of Tam pa H arbor, has been shipped from K reher Terminal here to New Y ork City and their place in one of Rockefeller Center’s newest buildings.

The steel trusses were shipped by barge around the F lorida Keys and up the East Coast intracoastal waterway to New Y ork for use in the Celanese Corp.’s new building, the 50-story Rock-cel-Time.

The 95 and 82 ton trusses will help form the foundation of the new build-ing and five 30 ton trusses will support heavy-duty vertical elevators.

The barge, owned by S. C. Loveland Co. Inc., of Philadelphia, took 10 days for the trip, according to Ray Collins, operations m anager for Musselman Steel Fabricators Inc., of Tam pa.

Collins said the fabricating process took six weeks to complete. The steel was rolled by Bethlehem Steel and the

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M IA M I, FLORIDA 33131

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Post Office Box 38013, Station G Phone 356-7171

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

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fabricating was done under a contract with Drier-Holland Joint Venture, a New Y ork steel fabrication firm.

Collins also said the base m etal for the 95-ton truss was the largest piece of rolled steel fo r beams made any-where in the world.

Dr. Daubin New Head Of Ocean Engineering At M iami University

M IA M IDr. Scott C. Daubin has received a

joint appointm ent as chairm an of the departm ent of ocean engineering of the University of M iami School of Engi-neering and chairm an of the division of ocean engineering at the U M ’s Ros- enstiel School of M arine and A tm os-pheric Science.

Daubin comes to the University from W oods Hole Oceanographic Institution in W oods Hole, Mass. There he has been senior scientist and chairm an of the departm ent of ocean engineering for the past four years.

His appointm ent became effective July 26.

He succeeds Dr. John Steinberg, who voluntarily returned to continue re-search in the U M ’s Rosenstiel School. Dr. Donald Sawyer, acting dean of the University’s School of Engineering, has also been acting chairm an of ocean engineering in the interim.

Daubin, 48, received his M aster of Arts and Ph.D. both from Princeton University.

Matzer Issues Pamphlet Describing Test Basin

JA CK SO N V ILLEA full-color pam phlet describing the

new 20 ft. x 4 ft. deep model test facil-ity has just been completed by Rudolph M atzer & Associates, Inc.

The booklet contains photographs of the tank and model shop, describes the instrum entation and lists many of the tests which can be perform ed in the basin. Copies are available upon re-quest from the firm located at 13891 A tlantic Boulevard, Jacksonville 32225.

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Marine Refrigeration Firm Sold to Oletzky

M IA M ISheldon Oletzky of N orth Miami has

purchased Frigibar Marine, a m arine refrigeration and freezer m anufacturing firm, based in Miami, for an undis-closed sum.

Frigibar, founded by the late Louis Radoi 13 years ago, will become Frigi-bar Industries Inc. The firm was known for its custom m ade freezers, refriger-ators, deck units and fish boxes for yachts.

The firm has announced plans to switch from custom to production prod-ucts, aimed at serving a greater por-tion of the pleasure boat market. F rig i-bar already has in production seven basic units selling for $299 to $2,000, plus accessories.

Oletzky, the new owner, is a graduate engineer with several years of experi-ence in the aerospace industry.

His firm makes units from high im -pact fiberglass and have marine hard-ware and cooling equipment. Another feature of the freezer line is the wide range therm ostats that let owners use them as deep freezers or high tem pera-ture refrigerators.

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Independent Gulf 2 /m o.J a ck so n v : M cG iffin 353-1741 M iam i: Sh aw 371-4581M ob ile: P a g e 432-1647Savan : S m ith & K e lly 232-3151

Col. 1: LO PPER SUM (R )Col. 2: HILVERSUM (R )Col. 3: ITTERSUM (R )

1 2 3B erm u d a 8/22 9 /15 10/ 6 N assau 8/27 — 10/11.Freeport 8/29 — 10/13M iam i 8/30 9 /20 10/14 M obile 9 / 2 9 /23 10/17 N e w O r l. 9 /10 9 /25 10/25 N assau 9 /15 10/ 4