Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready to sail again after a $400,000 refit and new coat of grey paint. For her rededication, Red Oak Mayor Joseph Tiffin flew to Portland, Ore., with a specially stitched town flag, which Captain Robert Blood will hoist when the ship weighs anchor for Viet Nam with a cargo of lumber and ammunition. Said Maritime Administrator Nicholas Johnson at the ceremony: "Once more Americans are fighting for freedom halfway around the world. Once more ships are needed to supply the tools of battle. And once more the Red Oak Victory is heeding the call." So is the community...
...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...
...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...