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According -to figures of the American Waterways Operators, Inc., 329 barges for moving petroleum, petroleum products, and chemicals will be built or have been constructed under steel allocations approved a s of J-uly 16 by the Defense Transport Administration. T h e first of these allocations were made during the second quarter o f the year. 252 of these vessels are of more t h a n 10,000 barrels capacity and at least 1 3 will carry 30,000 barrels or more- T h e capacity of 14 of these vessels i s not shown in the applications for allocations. The other 315 have a total capacity of 5,115,189 barrels or 214,837,9 3 8 gallons. During the first half of 1951 shipyards building according to American Bureau of Shipping specifications launched 10 new towhoats., 13 tugs, 47 hopper barges, 27 oil barges, one acid barge, 15 covered cargo barges, one flat deck wharf barge, and one covered wharf barge.
Trend T o w a r d Diversification Diversification o f cargoes moving on the inland waterways is effecting a concurrent -diversification of industry along the navigable rivers and canals of the United States, according to Chester C. Thompson, president of The American Waterways Operators, Inc. "New cargoes are moving by barge up and d o w n the inland waterways and new plants a x e being built at waterside to process those cargoes," Thompson states. He cites the Mississippi Hiver at N e w Orleans as typical of a national trend. Barge traffic on t h e Mississippi River in the Port of N e w Orleans probably will exceed 1 5 million tons this year. In addition to this -water-borne commerce more than 6 million, tons of barge traffic on the Mississippi River will move through the Port of P^Iew Orleans for processing elsewhere. This inland-waterway freight includes hemp, sisal, manila, jute, grain, canned foods, coffee, sugar, molasses, rubber, animal feeds, posts, poles, piling, wood, sawmill products, sand, gravel, crushed rock, iron, steel, steel mill products, semimanufactured iron and steel in advanced stages of .nanxafacture, aluminum ore, concentrates, base alloys, scrap, construction machinery, sulfur, clays and earth, petroleum and petroleum products, gas, oil, distillate fuel oil, chemicals, cotton, fertilizer, paper, sea shells, oil seeds, stone, and cement, Barge movement of these cargoes either into, out of, o r through the Port of New Orleans attracted t o the city's industrial area, in recent months, a $2 million twine mill, a 3>79 rnillion aluminum reduction plant, a $1.5 million bulk yeast plant, two CHEMICAL
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cement plants, a $6.5 million refinery addition, a $2 million match factory, additional grain storage and handling facilities, an engine factory, n e w and enlarged plants for processing grain, sugar, and coffee, chemical plants, steel warehouses and fabricating plants, woodworking plants, and new industries for processing by-products of these new industries. Thompson cited barge traffic figures for 1949 ( t h e latest U. S. Corps of Engineers totals) as a measure of the supply of raw materials available to the n e w and expanding industries. The 1950 and 1951 movements will exceed those during 1949, in most instances. Cargoes barged into the Port of New Orleans in 1949 represented a total tonnage of 7,740,581, and 104 categories of raw materials, semifinished products, and finished products. Cargoes barged out of N e w Orleans in 1949 represented a total tonnage of 2,886,018, and 102 categories of raw materails, semifinished products, and finished products.
Protective Liner f o r Steel Shipping Containers Now available commercially is the new epoxy resin protective coating liner called Synthetasine 100 which through mechanical and chemical resistance broadens the field of products to b e successfully shipped in lined steel containers, according to Synthetasine Proteceive Coatings, Inc., licensor of the new product. A direct result of the requirement demands of manufacturing chemists, Synthetasine 100 was developed b y Battelle Mémorial Institute scientists, whose studies show it resistant to the following types of products: alkali, dilute mineral acids, chlorinated solvents, formaldehyde ( 3 6 - 3 8 % aqueous), detergents, detergents combined with hydrocarbon solvent, fatty acid, and emulsions. Synthetasine 100 combines exceptional flexibility and excellent resistance to normal abuse in shipping and moving lined containers, not shattering easily like pure phenolic. The time element in making Synthetasine 100 available as quickly as possible to customers of the steel shipping container industry permitted testing of only a limited number of products. Evaluation with other products continues. Indications are that the white (cream colored when cured) liner is inert and should impart no toxic character to foods. It is further felt that the coating will find application in the petroleum industry, according to the licensor. C 1 AND
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