Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that heavier air attacks in the North could not significantly reduce U.S. casualties in South Viet Nam. McNamara also strongly implied that nearly all of 51 targets recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but so far not approved by the President, were barely worth attacking, including the major port of Haiphong...
...talk of escalation, though, the targets were familiar: Hanoi's power plant, 1.1 miles from the city, for example, and the Canal des Rapides Bridge, about five miles away. The only new target on the list last week was the naval base at Port Wallut, about 30 miles south of China...
What about interdicting Russian and Chinese supplies to Hanoi by closing North Viet Nam's ports, notably Haiphong? That, too, argued McNamara, would not work. North Viet Nam imports some 5,800 tons a day, some 4,700 tons of it through Haiphong's port. Military equipment makes up only 550 tons daily in imports, and "little if any" of it comes in by sea. Haiphong is a "convenience rather than a necessity" for imports, and even if all 400 miles of North Vietnamese coast could be interdicted, "North Viet Nam would still be able to import over...
Postwar Windfall. Braving such obstacles, Lusteveco deploys a fleet of 500 trucks on land, a small coastal navy of 16 tankers, 107 tugs and 448 barges at sea, and a string of modern warehouses at major ports. The company moves 80% of the country's vital interisland traffic: home-grown timber, coconut and sugar on its way to port for overseas markets; steel, machinery and other imports headed from Luzon to other parts of the nation. Lusteveco stevedores shoulder nearly all the Philippines' foreign trade borne by ships, which may be docked by Lusteveco tugs, provisioned at Lusteveco...
...other parts of the world, it is in short supply in Southeast Asia, as U.S. military logistics experts have discovered to their chagrin. Lusteveco tugs and barges helped break the Saigon shipping bottleneck, and the company is bidding for similar work at Thailand's choked port of Bangkok. Still, happy as he is to have the U.S. military business (which now accounts for 12% of sales), Fernandez finds that he is hard-pressed to "accommodate that Viet Nam effort," looks for the day when he can "bring back a lot of the equipment and put it to work...