Port construction in South Vietnam. Activity seen. Cranes, derricks. American soldier stands on steel platform overlooking activity across the water. (Vietnam War period).
United States soldiers mark the date onto containers with a chalk and load it onto a ship in Vietnam. Cargo is brought near the ship by vehicles driven by United States soldiers. After marking the date cargo is loaded onto the ship with the help of a crane. A United States soldier reads a piece of paper. (Vietnam War period).
A huge wooden box unloads from the ship at Saigon port in Vietnam. Vietnamese help unload it and it is carried away on a vehicle driven by a Vietnamese driver. United States Army soldiers look on as they sit on wooden planks. A carrier vehicle unloads from the ship. United States soldiers and Vietnamese people help unload it. It is labeled as a shipment under the USAID program. The vehicle is carried away by tractors driven by Vietnamese and United States soldiers follow in a military jeep. (Vietnam War period).
Trucks move out of the port in Saigon in Vietnam. A number of ships are anchored in at the port. Oil barrels are unloaded from a ship by local people as smoke emits out from the ship's stack. Locals unload cast concrete blocks from the ship as jeeps move out of the port. Cargo being carried away on vehicles.
Vietnamese onboard a boat. Local people unload boxes from a ship onto a truck at Saigon port in Vietnam. A Vietnamese wearing a pair of spectacles looks out from a window at the port where a number of ships are seen. Scrap cargo lies at the port. Sacks being carried away on a vehicle. Piles of brown bags and wooden planks lie at the port.
Piles of bags being unloaded from a ship with the help of a crane and a hook at Saigon port in Vietnam. Local people load bags onto trucks as a Vietnamese supervises and instructs them. Boxes being unloaded from a ship as a Japnese ship is seen anchored at the port in the backdrop. A woman with a child in her hands stands near the Japanese ship.