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found that side port han- dling of cargo does not re- duce cost per ton as compared with overall loading except in so far as overtime is reduced and ships ex- pedited because with greater number 02 cargo openings more cargo can be handled in -eight hours. Approxi- mately 30 per cent of the cargo han- died at the company’s San Francisco pier is handled through side ports. Loading is facilitated by providing trap hatches in the ‘’tweendeck through which cargo may be dropped or passed down to the lower hold by ehutes. For example, electric lift trucks bring skids loaded with bags of rice from the dock through the side port and across the ’tweendeck toatrdp hatch. The skid is dropped at this point. The bags are picked up by the longshoremen and placed on chutes running athwartship to bags piled about half way up in the hold. This chute discharges to a level chute that leads across the hold to place of stowage. | fiona NAVIGATION CO. has Wage Incentive Plans AGE incentive plans have been IIE cccexatuiiy applied in railroad less carload freight stations and in complex materials handling opera- tions in industrial plants. In these times when cutting costs is vital, a wage incentive plan is worth the con- sideration of shipping executives. The point is, that if wage incen- tives can be applied to other com- plex materials handling operations, then it is worth trying in a cargo handling operation. This is particu- larly true in those operations where large tonnages of one commodity are handled, such as coffee, sugar, etc. All new terminals constructed by the Los Angeles Harbor board will be equipped with cargo masts. The ability to think in terms of Principles is necessary to achieve the best results in cargo handling. Methods change but principles are Wchanging, therefore he who under- Stands principles works faster and with greater certainty. Principles Save a great deal of thinking, leav- ing time free for working out solu- tions of new problems. A special type hook is used by longshoremen on the Pacific coast for handling bags of raw sugar. This 00k has five points, over a total Width of four inches. It has been STITT TT f Bone page is being devoted to short items on all matters having to do with the more efficient turn- around of ships. These items are in- tended to be of a helpful nature. We will welcome for this page brief descriptions, illustrated if possible, of any better or safer way of perform- ing any function in cargo handling. Also. any questions submitted will be answered by the editor. MTT TTTTTTTIITITITTUTTTLUUCUUUUUUtUU TMU UMUC Unique Arrangement of Winches and Controls on Coastwise Freighter, Pacific Coast Steamship Line found that this hook causes less damage to the bags. A large sugar handling operation handled 600,000 tons of sugar in 109,500 man hours with only four loss time accidents. = The Matson Navigation Co. main-. tains a cafeteria on their San Fran- cisco dock for crews when ships are in port and for the longshoremen. At a San Francisco pier shipside railroad tracks are carried over cut gangways for use when working side ports by a special device which low- ers a section of the floor to the proper level for trucking through the side port. A steamship line handling un- boxed automobiles keeps them on the bulkhead wharf rather than on the pier to avoid damage by street trucks backing into them. The Moore and McCormick line uses wooden hatch covers made up into several sections for a hatch in- stead of a large number of individual MARINE Review—October, 1931 covers for each hatch. This is ad- vantageous for preventing accidents from falling covers. Painting covers of pipe lines on deck with aluminum paint is a good safety measure. There is less dan- ger of falling over the covers in the night time. A new type of trailer has been de- veloped that dumps a load of 20 sacks of sugar within a minute, say- ing considerable time and money as compared with handling sack by sack, New achievements are now to a less extent the result of blind grop- ing than of conscious progress. The Belgian line, New York, han- dles practically all freight on the dock with gasoline cranes. A few trailers are used to handle cargo go- ing to the farm. Thirteen cranes are now in use. A new type of rope sling has been developed on the Pacific coast on which replacement costs are very much less than the usual type rope Shipping firebrick on skids has re- duced breakage and chipping to the minimum. Standardizing Equipment SHIP was recently loading bags of aluminum sulphate di- rect from box cars to hold. Number one hatch was being worked with a rope sling while a platform sling was used at number two. One or the other of these slings was the one best sling to be used and that sling should have been used at _ both hatches. There is profit in the standardization of methods and equipment. The Fay Transportation Co., San Francisco, is completing a new self propelled barge for bay and river work. This barge will have large elevators serving both sides of the barge for handling gasoline lift trucks and skids which are used by the Fay Transportation Co. for han- dling 95 per cent of its cargo. Truckmen delivering freight to the Fay Transportation pier deliver packages direct to skids rather than to the floor of the dock, thus saving a handling for the company. 39