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NEWS OF INTEREST FOREIGN-TRADE ZONE STARTS PROCESSING WORK, HAS GOOD YEAR In its first 11 months of operation, the Toledo Foreign-Trade Zone received goods from nine different countries of origin, valued at $7,088,575, according to a report made by Harry Goffe, Deputy Col- lector of Customs at the Zone. The report indicated that since opening of the Zone in August of 1961, and through June 30, 1962, there were 291 entries comprising 12,146 long tons of cargo. Duties collected on goods entering the Zone totaled $24,024.92. Total amount of goods delivered from the Zone, according to Mr. Goffe, was 7,937 long tons valued at $4,723,879. The goods repre- sented 14 major commodities, and came from Canada, England, Por- tugal, Italy, West Germany, Malaya, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. In August, the 34,464 square-foot addition to the Toledo Foreign- Trade Zone warehouse was completed, providing total storage space of nearly 83,000 square feet. Toledo Foreign-Trade Zone Opera- tors, Inc., a division of the Edward J. DeBartolo Companies, has in- vested in excess of $625,000 in site improvement. Lately, the Zone operators have become engaged in manipulatory activities, in addition to normal zone storage. Aluminum ingots, sent to the Zone by Aluminum Ltd. Sales, Inc. of Canada, are being sawed to lengths required by American customers of the metals firm. Some 15,000 tons of aluminum are to be sent annually to the Toledo Zone, according to company spokesmen. IRON ORE DEPOSITS UNCOVERED IN NIGER NIAMEY, NIGER--Deposits exceeding 100,000,000 tons of me- dium-quality iron ore have been uncovered at Say, 40 miles south of Niamey, Niger's capital. The government plans steel plant with a yearly capacity of 20,000 tons. THE ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY AUTHORITY SOREL, Que., Nov. 15, 1962:--Mme. Leon Balcer, wife of Canada's Minister of Transport, will christen with the name "SLS HERCU- LES," the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority's giant gate-lifting crane at ceremonies here, Saturday, Nov. 17. The self-propelled, floating, revolving crane, with a capacity of 275 tons, is the largest of its kind ever built in North America. Marine Industries Limited were the prime contractors for the mas- sive piece of equipment. : : The Minister of Transport; R. J. Rankin, President of The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority and Dr. Pierre Camu, Vice-President; J. H. McCann, Administrator of the Saint Lawrence Seaway De- velopment Corporation of the United States; and representatives of the shipping industry, both North American and foreign, will be joined by Government officials whose interests relate particularly to navigation and the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes generally. Ludger Simard, President of Marine Industries Limited, will rep- resent the builders at the ceremony. The self-propelled crane will be capable of lifting a 275 ton lock gate leaf over the bow of its hull and rotating it for stowage on the after-deck. Its prime purpose is to remove gate leaves of the Cana- dian locks of the Seaway between Montreal and Lake Ontario, if one of them should be damaged by a vessel or require replacement for major maintenance or overhaul. Some of the steel gate leaves are 80 feet in height. The crane will also be available for use in handling heavy lifts in Montreal Harbour and possibly in other lower St. Lawrence ports and in this capacity will be able to handle about 250 tons under cir- cumstances suitable for use in loading and unloading ships. The hull is of welded steel, some 200 feet long and of 75 foot beam, to be able to pass through the 80-foot-wide Seaway locks. Its cycloi- dal propellers make it highly manoeuvrable and it can proceed at a speed of up to four knots under normal conditions. 474