Bernard Leyden, a admired all-embracing shipment controlling and Jewish philanthropist, has succumbed to blight at the age of 85.
New York -- Bernard Leyden, a admired all-embracing shipment controlling and Jewish philanthropist, has succumbed to blight at the age of 85.
Leyden, complete in Brooklyn, New York to the son an immigrant clothier from Poland, fabricated his way from abjection to abundance through developing avant-garde methods of both sea and air burden transportation.
My ancestor able and awash these new shipment methods to bags of importers and exporters in the New York region My ancestor aloft millions of dollars through the International Shipping Division of UJA Federation in New York The money my ancestor contributed and aloft went to bankrupt Jews in the New York across and to the Israel Emergency Fund, which aids Israel during war time. At one point he served as a shipment adviser to Israel's Ministry of Defense. My ancestor was a adventurous and affected man who accepted and was able to ability out to anybody about him. He had a allowance of authoritative humans smile. He stands as an afflatus today as both a ancestors man and industry baton who created a bigger above of activity from New York, London and Madrid to Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Paris. It was 50 years ago that Malcom McLean, an administrator from North Carolina, loaded a address with 58 35-foot containers and sailed from Newark, N.J., to Houston.
Leyden followed McLean in suggesting that containers ability accomplish shipment added efficient. The advocate abstraction was to architecture a busline arrangement about the packaging of burden in huge metal boxes that could be loaded and unloaded by cranes.
Container shipment eventually replaced the acceptable "break-bulk" adjustment of administration crates, barrels and bags, and stowing them apart in a ship's hold, a arrangement in use back the canicule of the Phoenicians. Replacing break-bulk with burden containers badly bargain shipment costs, reinvigorating markets and fueling the apple economy.
"My ancestor able and awash these new shipment methods to bags of importers and exporters in the New York region," said his son Joel Leyden.
"He created Leyden Shipping, a bales forwarding company, Leyden Customs, a allowance close and Odyssey Chartering on Pearl Street in the 1950's to accommodate busline casework to both the acceptation and consign trade. As the Leyden Transportation Group broadcast they confused into the World Trade Center and opened added offices at JFK.
Although he did not ad-lib containerization, he was one of the key all-around abstracts to bazaar it - with agents in Europe, South America, the Middle-East and Asia."
Bernard Leyden became a arch amount in the Jewish community.
"My ancestor aloft millions of dollars through the International Shipping Division of UJA Federation in New York," said the adolescent Leyden who resides in Israel and works as an Internet accessible relations, business SEO avant-garde and journalist.
"The money my ancestor contributed and aloft went to bankrupt Jews in the New York across and to the Israel Emergency Fund, which aids Israel during war time. At one point he served as a shipment adviser to Israel's Ministry of Defense."
Leyden says that his ancestor Bernard was a admiring and committed father.
"My dad grew up in the Great Depression. This larboard a abstruse appulse on him. He would plan 18 hour canicule to accomplish abiding that there was aliment on the ancestors table. He aswell had several accompany who were Holocaust survivors. He became breath in both Temple Shalom in Westbury, New York and volunteered hundreds of hours with the United Jewish Appeal. He became a adherent of several Jewish and Israel organizations including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Magan David Adom and the Simon Wiesenthal Center."
Bernard Leyden Bernard Leyden Blogspot overcame a abashed ataxia at an aboriginal age to become one of the a lot of able accessible speakers for the shipment industry and Israel. Bernard Leyden served as a all-embracing shipment adviser to Chase Bank lecturing to hundreds of business leaders.
"My ancestor was a adventurous and affected man who accepted and was able to ability out to anybody about him. He had a allowance of authoritative humans smile. He stands as an afflatus today as both a ancestors man and industry baton who created a bigger above of activity from New York, London and Madrid to Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Paris."
Bernard Leyden, who was affiliated to Helen Katzman, is survived today by his wife Alice, his sons Joel and Brian, daughter-in-law Diane and his grandchildren Lior, David, Amanda, Lauren and Brandon.
Bernard, who had resided in both New York City and Palm Beach, Florida, was brother to Tillie and the backward Henry Leyden. He was admired by Alice's accouchement Harry (Laurie) Gray; grandfathering to Charlie and Max and Robert (Karen) Gray; grandpa to Caroline and Alexander.
Funeral takes abode tomorrow, Sunday, January 25, 2009 12 apex at Riverside Chapel, 55 North Station Plaza, Great Neck, New York.
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Joel Leyden
Monique Lester
+44 (0)7958 411653
+972 (0)52 856 8396
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