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...Japan until the traffic thins. With the U.S. buildup, incoming cargo has increased tenfold in half a year, to 800,000 tons last month-and 60% of it must pass through Saigon. The average wait for a ship to be unloaded is 22 days at Saigon, 31 at Cam Ranh Bay, 40 at Danang-though both Cam Ranh and Danang are rapidly being improved...
...available to do the job. But last week the Pentagon was weighing a contract with Vancouver's Alaska Barge & Transport Co. to put its oceangoing tugs and barges to work in Viet Nam waters. And the installation last week of a 300-ft. De Tong pier at Cam Ranh Bay upped South Viet Nam's port capacity 15% at one stroke...
Close Secret. The joint company is building a 10,000-ft. concrete runway and port facilities at Danang, another 10,000-ft. runway, parking aprons and a deep-draft pier at Chu Lai, an airfield extension, a helipad and a storage warehouse at Qui Nhon. At Cam Ranh, where a huge port facility is going up, it is building ammunition depots, anchorages, runways, aprons and taxiways; at Bien Hoa parking areas for planes, storage warehouses and cantonments. It is building a new U.S. embassy in Saigon, is developing an island in the middle of the Saigon River on which...
Logistics Bottleneck. The work is being done with impressive speed. Military insistence on standardization of buildings has helped, and so has the services' willingness to lend the companies idle equipment. Carving a jet field at Cam Ranh out of scrub and sand dunes in 66 days, the companies built the airstrip with a material that had been used only experimentally in the U.S. before it came to Viet Nam: a thin, interlocking and sandwiched aluminum plate called AM2. The airstrip came out as smooth and as strong as a cement field-which would have taken eight months to construct...
...Ranh Bay, destined to be one of the world's biggest ports, will ease the bottleneck when it is completed next year. McNamara last week ordered 10,000 additional logistical and engineering and support troops to Viet Nam to help relieve the jam. Meanwhile, as a Saigon logistics officer puts it, "trying to handle this buildup is like a juggler on a tightrope trying to drink from a firehose...