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Association of Pacific Ports News
March 17, 2023
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IN THIS ISSUE:
- 109th APP ANNUAL CONFERENCE -- CALL FOR PRESENTERS, SPONSORS
- PLANNING UNDERWAY FOR NEXT ISSUE OF PACIFIC PORTS MAGAZINE
- FEATURE ARTICLES FROM PACIFIC PORTS MAGAZINE: FEBRUARY 2023 ISSUE
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Industry Insight: Past, present, and future of The Pasha Group
- Resilience: A useful concept? By Dr. Fabian Steinman
- Artificial Intelligence: A layman’s experience with AI. By Konrad Mech
- MEMBER NEWS:
- Keelung Port Environmental Education Park kicked off
- Career opportunities from Shey-Harding
- Port of Long Beach names Rafael Delgado as Port’s Tenant Services Director
- Port of Nanaimo receives funding to improve fluidity of supply chain
- Port of Long Beach sees trade slowdown in February
- Trans Mountain Corporation provides update on the Expansion Project
- Port of Long Beach celebrates Pier G Wharf extension, labor pact
- Hualien Port welcomes international cruise ships, kicking off a series of activities for the 60th anniversary of the opening of the international commercial port
- La Conner Marina completes LED lighting upgrade
- Port of Hueneme announces Austin Yang as new CFO/CAO
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CALL FOR PRESENTERS / SPONSORS
109th APP ANNUAL CONFERENCE
August 13 to 16, 2023 in Long Beach, California
The APP is looking forward to an engaging event with relevant agenda topics, networking opportunities, and tours of local Port of Long Beach features and operations.
Call for Presenters
We're now in full-on planning mode for the APP's 109th Annual Conference! Contact Jane McIvor ( jane@pacificports.org / 604-893-8800) if you have suggestions for topics or presenters.
Sponsorship
The APP's 109th Annual Conference provides a great opportunity to build relationships with a very targeted market: senior port executives, commissioners and management from the U.S., Canada, and the Pacific Islands; terminal operators; shipping lines; technology providers; environmental consulting and engineering firms; and equipment manufactures to name just a few. Sponsorship benefits have been designed to provide premium exposure not only on-site but leading up to the event through social media and direct email marketing.
The Venue
We've secured a great room rate ($229) at the Hotel Maya – a Doubletree by Hilton. The Maya is a full-scale resort featuring a Latin American-inspired 199 room property with a distinctive Southern California combination of spectacular, oceanfront views amidst 14 acres of lush, tropical gardens dotted with 500 palm trees in a modern, open-air setting.
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Planning is already underway for the next issue of Pacific Ports Magazine and we're always on the look out for new projects, new technologies, and best practices. If you have an idea for an article we want to hear from you! Not a writer? No problem, we can work with you to develop an informative and entertaining article.
To discuss editorial ideas, contact:
We've developed a number of initiatives that will help you promote your business. In addition to advertising in Pacific Ports Magazine (an excellent way to reach your target market!), opportunities for digital advertising, workshop/webinar sponsorships and, of course, our Annual and Winter Conferences.
To discuss opportunities, contact:
Key dates for the September issue of Pacific Ports Magazine:
Book by June 19, 2023
Ad material due by June 26, 2023
Mail out by: July 15, 2023
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Feature articles from Pacific Ports Magazine February/23 now online
We're pleased to feature the following articles from our February 2023 issue of Pacific Ports Magazine (now online in html format)!
For over 80 years, the Pasha name has been well-rooted and well-respected in American business. Through three generations of “Georges,” the company has grown from a single service station to a diversified empire of global logistics and transportation services. And through it all, the Pasha name has maintained a reputation that is based on the company’s core values of excellence, honesty and integrity, innovation, and teamwork. It is an honor to have The Pasha Group as one of APP’s newest Associate Members. Their experience and leadership provide many insights into our industry.
Over the past decade, resilience has become one of the latest buzzwords in multiple industries. There is a great interest from organizations around the globe to integrate the concept of resilience into their operation. However, what do you have to do to become more resilient? There are multiple ways to increase operational resilience and that is where the challenge lies — Resilience means different things to people.
I recently participated in an American Society of Civil Engineers live webinar given by Collins Engineers’ Barritt Lovelace. Barritt presented his experience with the use of drones and Artificial Intelligence for bridge inspection. Many of the requirements and challenges of bridge inspection also hold for port infrastructure, for instance, the condition and defects of concrete decks and piles, the amount and rate of corrosion on steel structures, and the condition of coatings. During the discussion, Barritt mentioned he used an online tool called ChatGPT to help draft a presentation for a technical university. ChatGPT is a beta product from a company called OpenAI. Their website says Chat GPT is designed for optimizing Language Models for Dialogue.
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Keelung Port Environmental Education Park kicked off
March 17, 2023 — The Keelung Port Branch of Taiwan Port Affairs Co., Ltd. has been under the guidance of the head office since 2016, under the guidance of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Keelung City and the National Taiwan Ocean University, and the colleagues of the branch company have handled the preparations for the “Keelung Port Environmental Education Park” by themselves, gathering different fields Established a professional Hong Kong-area teaching team with colleagues of different specialties. During the period, they conducted trial teaching and gradually adjusted the teaching plans. On March 6, 2012, they obtained the “Keelung Port Environmental Education Park” certificate from the Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan.
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Career opportunities from Shey-Harding
March 16, 2023 — Shey-Harding Associates, an industry leading search firm specializing in middle management to executive level placements, has posted two new opportunities.
Director of Operations Marine Terminal
Summary: The Director of Operations is responsible for overseeing and directing the terminal’s operations management team in a manner that supports Company initiatives and objectives.
Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Business Partner, Marine Terminal
Summary: Reporting to the Director of HSE, the HSE Business Partner is responsible for the supervision, adaptation, and continual improvement of Health, Safety, Security and Environmental programs, policies, and procedures to further the company’s HSSE program. The Business Partner serves as a consultant resource across all functions to create a safe workplace with safe people and safe processes.
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Port of Long Beach names Rafael Delgado as Port’s Tenant Services Director
March 16, 2023 — The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners has approved the appointment of Rafael Delgado as Director of Tenant Services and Operations to lead the division that ensures good working relationships with Port tenants and other supply chain partners. Delgado moves into the role after working as Manager of Tenant Services since September 2019.
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Port of Nanaimo receives funding to improve fluidity of supply chain
March 15, 2023 — An efficient and reliable transportation system is essential to making life more affordable for Canadians and combat the rising cost of living. The Government of Canada is committed to ensuring our supply chains grow the economy and create good jobs for middle-class Canadians, while ensuring they are resilient and adaptive to the impacts of climate change.
Today, the Minister of Transport, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, announced an investment of up to $600,000, under the National Trade Corridors Fund, for the Nanaimo Port Authority to study:
- the expansion of container handling capacity;
- the development of land near the port to support economic growth, job creation, and trade;
- and the assessment of potential improvements to the transportation of cargo by sea over short distances between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.
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Port of Long Beach sees trade slowdown in February
March 14, 2023 — Cargo moving through the Port of Long Beach slowed in February due to full warehouses, reduced consumer spending and the closure of east Asian factories during the Lunar New Year holiday. Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 543,675 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) last month, down 31.7% from February 2022, which was the Port’s busiest February on record. Imports declined 34.7% to 254,970 TEUs and exports decreased 5.9% to 110,919 TEUs. Empty containers moving through the Port were down 38.3% to 177,787 TEUs.
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Trans Mountain Corporation provides update on the Expansion Project
March 10, 2023 — Trans Mountain Corporation announced an update for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (the Project). Construction of the Project is close to 80 per cent complete, with mechanical completion expected to occur at the end of 2023, and the pipeline will be in-service in the first quarter of 2024. Once completed, the pipeline system will have nearly tripled its capacity, representing an increase of 590,000 barrels per day to a total of 890,000 barrels per day.
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Port of Long Beach celebrates Pier G Wharf extension, labor pact
March 10, 2023 — A newly completed wharf improvement project to enable a terminal to welcome newer, larger and cleaner ships and a recently approved pact to ensure an ample supply of skilled workers for future construction projects were both celebrated in a combined event Thursday at the Port of Long Beach. The Pier G Wharf Improvements Project adds 246 feet of new wharf at Pier G that will allow terminal operator International Transportation Service to accommodate container ships capable of carrying up to 16,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo. The $55 million project, funded by the Port, also adds backland area and mooring infrastructure at Pier G.
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Hualien Port welcomes international cruise ships, kicking off a series of activities for the 60th anniversary of the opening of the international commercial port
March 10, 2023 — After 3 years, Hualien Port warmly welcomed the first international cruise ship “Nautica”, which lifted the ban on international cruise ships, on March 10, 2012. The ship brought 539 international passengers, and the second ship “Seven Seas Sailor” The ship is expected to bring about 700 international passengers on March 13. In order to welcome the resumption of international cruise ships, Hualien Port expanded the internal space of the customs clearance station last year, adding the main visual decoration of waves, selling local specialties in the station, and having tea tasting and aboriginal weaving cultural experience.
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La Conner Marina completes LED lighting upgrade
March 9, 2023 — The Port of Skagit maintenance team marked a major milestone recently, by completing an upgrade to LED lighting at the La Conner Marina. While the Port’s maintenance teams have been upgrading all Port facilities to LED lighting as needed when old lights burn out, a proactive and complete upgrade at the marina began in earnest several months ago to take advantage of bulk purchasing discounts and rebates from Puget Sound Energy. This retrofit offers several positives for both the Port, its tenants and guest boaters. The LED lighting has a noticeably brighter light making it safer to walk the docks and ramps after dark, and LEDs don’t fade in intensity or yellow as they age like fluorescent bulbs are known to do. Plus, the LED life expectancy is 6-10 times longer than fluorescent lights.
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Port of Hueneme announces Austin Yang as new CFO/CAO
March 8, 2023 — The Port of Hueneme’s CEO & Port Director Kristin Decas announced the promotion of Austin Yang to the new Chief Financial and Chief Administration Officer effective March 6th, 2023. Kristin Decas, Port of Hueneme’s CEO and Port Director said:” I am very pleased that Austin Yang is taking over as our new CFO/CAO and I am very confident that he will continue to make great contributions to the Port of Hueneme in his new role.”
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