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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.

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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.

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