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Robert Bush To Head New AML Subsidiary Stevedoring and terminal opera- tions on Puget Sound and the Col- umbia River, formerly handled by American Mail Line Ltd.'s steve- doring and terminal operations de- partment, was transferred to a new and wholly-owned subsidiary of American Mail Line Ltd.—West- ern Stevedoring & Terminal Cor- poration. TORQUE JOURNAL Robert D. Bush will be president of the new firm. Mr. Bush will re- tain his position as vice president, freight services, for the parent company. The new firm is headquartered at Seattle's Pier 28 in office space leased from AML. Columbia River operations, to be headed by J.F. Nicholson, currently AML's dis- trict operation manager, will be centered at Terminal No. 1 in Port- land, Ore. According to Mr. Bush, the change from a department within AML to a separate company was needed because of the continuing demand for increased specialization within stevedoring and terminal operations functions as a result of containerized cargo movement. Mr. Bush stated : "Here at AML, we have as much or more experi- ence in containerized cargo move- ment as anyone in the Pacific Northwest. The expertise we have gathered from our pioneering ef- forts in this field to the present will enable us to provide a useful service to other shipowners as well as to AML. And to give the best possible service to everyone, it is advisable that we operate as a separate company." Robert D. Bush Western Stevedoring & Terminal Corp. already has agreements to serve as contract stevedore and ter- minal operator for the Johnson Line and Prudential-Grace Lines, according to Mr. Bush. Western Stevedoring & Terminal Corp. will begin operations with transferred equipment from AML totaling $700,000 depreciated value. In addition, the parent company will provide a substantial invest- ment for working capital. All of AML's present stevedoring and terminal operations staff will be transferred to Western Stevedor- ing & Terminal Corp. In all, the new company will employ 27 sal- aried personnel—20 in the Puget Sound area, and seven in the Col- umbia River area. Mr. Bush joined AML 22 years ago when the stevedoring and ter- minal operations department was formed in 1948. After a short leave of absence, during which he served in the Korean War, he returned to AML as executive assistant to former president Worth B. Fowler, who was at that time executive vice president. Mr. Bush served as director of administration and as- sistant vice president before assum- ing the vice presidency for freight services, his current title. Mr. Bush, as president of West- ern Stevedoring & Terminal Corp., brings to the new company a wealth of background and knowl- edge of the shipping industry. His father retired from American Mail Line Ltd. in 1959 as vice president of finance, after having been with the firm since its founding in 1940. MarAd Publishes Container Guidelines The Maritime Administration has available a study containing exten- sive guidelines for the deck stowage of containers. A summary of the suggested guide- lines—directed to ship design, ship operations, and container operations —covers more than five pages of the report prepared for MarAd by J.J. Henry Co. Inc. The guidelines cover reduction in ship motion, protection of containers from sea impact, securing and locat- ing containers on deck, and the se- curity of cargo itself inside the con- tainer. 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