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Dock Management Progress Section How Successful Dock Operators Have Met Problems of Giving Best Service to Ships HII INUIT AAU INTIAL Ships of the Great White fleet (United Fruit Co.) at public wharves, New Orleans ew Orleans Is Favored by Intelligent Port Development HE Mississippi river, rising in Lake Itasca in Minnesota, flows in a southerly direction 2477 miles and empties into the Gulf of Mexico. With its tributaries, it drains an area of 1,240,000 square miles. “The port of New Orleans is sit- uated on the Mississippi river, 110 miles from its mouth. It has a large, spacious, fresh water harbor, ranging in depth from 30 to 200 feet. It has a frontage of 41.4 miles on the river and more than 10 miles of deep water frontage on the Inner Har- bor Navigation canal. There are no tides. “In tonnage and value of foreign trade, New Orleans ranks as _ the second port of the nation. It is a two-way port. The health and vigor of the port and its tenacity in growth is shown by the fact that in the late years of depression in foreign trade The author, W. Scott Hammond is engineer assistant to Marcel Garsaud, general manager, board of commissioners of the port of New Orleans. BY W. SCOTT HAMMOND the public’ facilities have handled more tons of cargo than in previous years. “The board of commissioners of the port of New Orleans, an agency of the state of Louisiana, operates the port. The board is an overlapping, non-political board, comprised of Port of New Orleans Quantities 1,3824,093,291 21,955,801 342,278,421 139,491,843 500,000,000 25,557,094 290,391 1,677,851 22,835,480 . 108,090,061 .. 1,888,954,833 Molasses, gallons 136,295,347 Note: Ships to the number of 2857 of a gross tonnage of 8,446,929 called at the port. The value of the foreign trade for one year was $632,612,826. Principle Commodities Petroleum, gallons Bananas, bunches Coffee, pounds Burlap, pounds Lumber, ft. b. m. Creosote, gallons ‘Coal and ore, tons bales bushels pounds Cotton, Grain, Tobacco, Sugar, pounds five members chosen by the governor ‘from the leading business men of the city. The members serve without pay for fixed terms of office. Under the board, the affairs of the port are under the direction of a general man- ager. “Nearly one hundred _ steamship lines had sailings from the port in 1925. Twelve railroad lines spread- ing- fan-shaped into the hinterland, terminate at New Orleans. “New Orleans, as a port, is fully equipped to trans-ship and store, rail, river and ocean traffic. It is a natural harbor; it is a great rail- road terminal; it is the geographical center of the shipping of North and South America.” Thus began the twenty-ninth re- port of the board of commissioners of the port of New Orleans issued as of Aug. 31, 1925. The history of the port of New Orleans from the year 1901 when the board of commissioners of the