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...with the increasing popularity of jet air freight, along with the promise of truly gigantic cargo planes within a few years, U.S. shipping companies have finally, and belatedly, begun to battle back. The weapon on which they pin the most hope: a technique called container shipping. A seagoing adaptation of piggyback rail freight, container shipping involves packing cargo into steel, aluminum or wood containers of more or less standard size (8 ft. high, 8 ft. wide and 10, 20, 30 or 40 ft. long) at the factory, no matter how far inland. The containers are then moved by truck...
Although containers have been used by a few U.S. ship operators for a decade, the system has really taken hold only lately. Last week the Moore-McCormack freighter Mormacahair steamed through the stormy Atlantic to Antwerp with that ocean's first regularly scheduled commercial container cargo. In mid-March, U.S. Lines will begin weekly sailings from New York to Europe with the first of four vessels specially fitted to stack containers in their holds like bricks in a wall. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines is converting two ore carriers for container service. San Francisco-based American President Lines last week...
...port showed a surprising rate of growth. Between 1945 and 1959, the average volume of import-export cargo almost tripled. Construction and improvements involved huge expenditures, however, so the Massachusetts legislature terminated the Port of Boston as a government agency and in 1956 created the combined Massachusetts Port Authority. The Authority, which presently operates and controls Logan International Airport, Hanscom Field, Port of Boston properties, and the Mystic River Bridge (whose revenues are bigger than those of the port properties), is a curious mixture of business and government designed for the purpose of making the port a commercial concern, rather...
...have not favored Boston, and a dramatic example of railroad trouble occurred this winter when Boston was unable to ship government wheat to India because the two city's grain elevators, both leased by railroad companies, had been closed down. The advantage of railroad proximity to piers (in Boston cargo can be loaded directly onto railway cars) has become less valuable since truck transport now accounts for 80 per cent of the traffic...
...opposed to $5,162,000 for airport properties. Nearly as much was spent on the Mystic River Bridge as on the port. Logan, of course, is an expanding enterprise with heartwarming figures of growth--11.9 per cent increase in passengers and 30 per cent increase in air cargo for the last fiscal year. New Boston men are counting on an even bigger growth when the new terminal is completed, as well as the much-debated and much-needed new runway. Where all this leaves the port, however, is quite another matter...