Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 or train to a port city and loaded aboard a ship built especially to accommodate them or so adapted. Upon arrival at a foreign port, the containers, still unopened, may be unloaded and freighted inland to their ultimate destination...
...More Higgledy-Piggledy. Containers promise to scrape away some of the shipping industry's most persistent barnacles. Conventional freighters waste expensive time in port loading and unloading higgledy-piggledy, with cumbersome nets and slings. With specially built cranes, the containers can be moved into "cellulized" holds so swiftly that a vessel that might otherwise have to stay in port for, say, 72 hours, can now get out in twelve. This alone can cut the cost of transoceanic shipping by more than 25%. Beyond that, the containers are hard to pilfer-so much so that Matson Navigation Co. saves...
...Authority's effectiveness. There is widespread belief that the New Boston has cast its lot with airplanes rather than ships. Though repeatedly denied by the MPA, the concept of airport priority would seem to be borne out by facts. In the fiscal year 1965, for example, capital expenditures for port properties amounted to $648,000 as 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...
...future of Boston as a port according to MPA officials at least, is bright. When confronted with immediate past records, they quickly point out plans for the future which they hope will overcome the sluggish rate of growth. "The future is excellent," Robert S. Tobin, Chief Trade Representative, said. "I'm sure we can double, possibly triple, foreign trade as far as was done between '46 and '59. I'm confident...
...learn from other cities. Old South Station and the New Haven yards are to be torn down to make way for a Trade and Transportation Center which features accommodations and showrooms for visiting businessmen, very similar in concept to the proposed Trade Center in New York. Baltimore, whose port has achieved huge growth rates in recent years, took an old airport harbor that had fallen into disuse and rebuilt it as a giant unloading facility. The MPA is now planning a similar project at8CRIMSON Roger W. Sinnott...