Transportation and Administration

During the course of the year Cassiar asbestos fibre is shipped to almost every
country in the free world. This not only attests to the wide acceptance of Cassiar
fibre, but it demonstrates the ability of Cassiar and its agents to deliver the proper
quality and quantity of asbestos wherever it is required.

Certainly technology plays a major role in moving thousands of tons of asbes-
tos from Cassiar’s two northern mines to customers throughout the world, but so
does the knowledge and experience contributed by Cassiar’s transportation people.
They are the ones who put the technology to work. They are the people who employ
the trucks, the trains, and the ships to deliver Cassiar fibre wherever it is needed. In
fact at any given time, Cassiar may be using the services of some twenty-five
ocean-going steamship lines as well as many railroads and trucking systems to
meet its global transportation commitments.

Transporting fibre is an ongoing and continuous process. By ship, train and
truck, container and palletized loads of fibre arrive in Vancouver for onward ship-
ment to such ports as Sydney, Valparaiso, Buenos Aires, Penang, Amsterdam,
Barcelona, Melbourne, Liverpool, Tokyo and Bangkok — to name a few.

Keeping this seemingly endless flow of fibre moving is an integral part of the
production and marketing of asbestos. It involves many people, many skills and
many kinds of jobs — indeed everything from helping a stranded northern motorist
to loading a merchantman with fibre for Peru.

Supporting the Company's mines and its fibre sales and distribution services
is a Vancouver head office staff concerned with marketing, transportation, ac-
counting, engineering, purchasing, industrial relations, internal and external
communications, and the ecological standards within the Company's areas of
operations. This staff, together with the personnel establishments at Cassiar's
mines and its transportation division, constitute the diverse elements of Cassiar
Asbestos — a Canadian Company with a payroll of over one thousand people.