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Pier 6 of the American Hawaiian Steamship Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., Showing the Gap Lowers Cost of Cargo Handling Intercoastal Steamship Company Adopts Progressive Method—Use Made of Efficient Mechanical Equipment—Hand Labor Reduced to Minimum ECHANICAL equipment has M been installed on the American- Hawaiian intercoastal terminal at New York to as large an extent as on any general cargo terminal in this country. The extensive use of mechanical equipment has been for the purpose of carrying out the policy of handling cargo with the minimum of damage and at a reasonable cost per ton. The work on the terminal is divided into two operations. Loading and discharging is one operation and this is done by the stevedoring firm, the Jarko Corp. Delivery of the inward freight to street trucks and to railroad cars is the other operation. This is. performed by the American - Hawaiian Steamship Co. The pier, which is double decked, is 1273 feet long and 265 feet wide. At the outer end op- posite the loading berth, there is a gap or recess in the pier 88 feet by 225 feet in which lighters are berthed. This gap is shown in one of the illustrations. The roof of the pier shelters about fifteen acres of floor space for cargo. Two surface railroad 50 By Hi E. Stocker tracks connected with the Bush Termi- nal railroad serve the pier. At the “gap” or recess in the end of the pier, the tracks separate, each running to a section on either side of the gap. All loading is done from the lower deck of the pier. Export cargo, flour and also other inward freight which cannot be accommodated on the lower deck is discharged to the upper deck of the pier. A total of approximately 600,000 tons of cargo is handled annually. In 1929 during a three months period, 1915 tons of cargo were received and PLATFORM SLING LOADED WITH CASES. RETAINER GUARDS AT TOP MARINE REVIEW—March, 1930 delivered each working day. This in- volved the average daily movement of 300 motor and horse-drawn trucks, 20 railroad cars, 15 lighters and 15 warehouse trailers. On some days 450 trucks are loaded and unloaded. There are two sailings and two arrivals a week. The loading and the discharging are done with eight gasoline tractors operating with a fleet of 19 steel decked roller bear- ing caster type trailers and 120 four- wheel trucks. Four storage battery tractors owned by the steamship company are rented to supplement the gasoline tractors own- ed by the stevedores. Two wheel hand trucks and dollies are also used. The gasoline tractors have an out- side turning radius of 51 inches. They are of the three wheel type and are so con- structed that the trac- tor can turn in 4 circle pivoted on one rear wheel. A con- densing silencer is pr0- vided to insure safe operation. Ten of the nineteen trailers are three feet wide by eight feet long, while nine are three feet wide by six feet long: Both tractors and trail- ers are equipped with