Clipper cargo horizons, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1960

              The Air Cargo Terminal Every Shipper Loves
Boom at Miami moves 103,000 tons of total cargo a year by air;
Pan Am’s integrated terminal accounts for biggest international share
EASE OF ACCESS and maneuver in loading and unloading planes, trucks and rail cars characterizes Pan Am’s goliath cargo terminal at Miami’s airport.
Florida poises like a finger pointing at the Latin and South American markets. It has carved for Miami an ideal spot from which cargo can be lifted on its way southward.
Every year over 78,000 tons of international air cargo, or 76% of a 103,000-ton total, moves out of Miami airport, where 37 international carriers are in competition with each other.
One mammoth terminal, complete with limitless space and integrated transport facilities, handles close to 40% of this international air cargo traffic. It is Pan Am’s Miami terminal — probably the world’s biggest integrated one.
Easy Access. Most significant features of the terminal are its size and the three-way transport network it has fashioned — truck, rail, and air.
On an expansive apron on the east side of the big terminal building, planes can taxi off airport runways to within 75 yards of loading platforms. Following guidelines on the macadam, the planes pull opposite two ramps, which jut out 50 to 60 yards at a 15-degree
angle. There is a gaping hole, from the edge of the incline to the plane doorway, until a mechanic springs into action and sets in motion a hydraulic platform. The platform immediately lifts into position, locks in place, and spans the void.
In three minutes the inclined ramp, from terminal building floor to gaping
cargo plane doorway, has been completed, making the aircraft ready for loading.
Not only can one plane load at each of two ramps at the same time, but cargo can move swiftly to loading aircraft direct from waiting trucks or rail cars. Access lanes on either side of the 900-foot building are as wide as dual highways. At least 15 inbound trucks can disgorge their cargo at once, and just as many can be loading outgoing traffic. Along one whole side of the terminal stretches a railroad spur long enough to take a string of freight cars.
All this is characterized by ease of access and maneuver — to and from trucks, freight cars, and aircraft simultaneously, if necessary, whether loading or unloading.
Flexible Handling. The terminal building itself is a study in cargo handling flexibility.
It covers about 183,000 square feet, has about one-fifth devoted to office procedures. Fully 45,000 square feet are reserved for sorting and stacking urgent cargo, and a customs office is on the spot to take care of documentation with dispatch.
Since large quantities of goods come into the terminal by carload lots, large areas are set aside to sort these shipments and hold them for future airlifts. The vast storage area is also utilized to accept uncrated loads of household furniture. Pan Am personnel then pack these household goods in special plywood crates, each of which holds up to (Continued on Page 4)
Why Hupp International Ships By Air From Miami
Hupp International had a shipment of 51 refrigerators leaving Greenville, Ohio, and another of 72 ranges and stoves leaving Cleveland. Destination of both was Kingston, Jamaica.
Gross weight of the refrigerators by surface was 17,850 pounds, and it made up into 2,142 cubic feet. Air gross weight came to 16,728 pounds.
On the ranges and stoves, gross weight by surface was 18,000 pounds, on which the cubic footage was 2,160. Air gross weight:
15,840 pounds. This is the way costs by surface and by	air compared in	the case of
the 51 refrigerators:	AIR	SURFACE
COST ITEM	(Via Miami)	(Via N.Y.)
Export packing	None	$ 433.50
Rail — Greenville/N.Y. — $2.04 cwt	—	364.14
Rail — Greenville/Miami — $3.16 cwt	$ 528.60	—
Ocean freight — N.Y./Kingston — $37 per 40 cu. ft.	—	1,981.35
Air charges — Miami/Kingston — $8 per cwt	1,338.24	—
Forwarder's handling fees	2.00	10.00
Insurance	19.50	38.50
Duty	2,199.80	2,603.50
Wharfage Kingston	None	214.20
Total	$4,088.14	$5,645.19
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