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The Pacific Current

August 20, 2010

APP's 97th Annual Conference: Success on the Columbia!

Thanks to all our Annual Conference sponsors, expert speakers, and participants for creating a fun and informative gathering on the Columbia River in Oregon & Washington USA. Read details below.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Annual Conference Wrap-Up

New APP President & Executive Committee Elected

APP People: New Redwood City Port Commissioner

Long Beach Receives Award

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Upcoming APP Events

ANNUAL CONFERENCE INFORMS AND INSPIRES

An all-star line-up of informative speakers at APP's 97th Annual Conference last month hosted by the Port of Umatilla, Oregon USA at the amazing Skamania Lodge providing briefings for attendees about key port industry issues, projects, and trends.

Click here to download PowerPoint presentations from the Annual Conference.

Click here to view Annual Conference photos.

Attendees took advantage of plentiful networking time to renew and build new partnerships with port colleagues from throughout the Pacific.

We went Up the Columbia River: touring the Port of Umatilla, the Port of Morrow, and the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute.

And we went Down the Columbia: touring Bonneville Dam & Locks (commercial navigation, hydropower production, irrigation, fish protection, and recreation all in one!),

visiting Multnomah Falls, and getting up-close tours of the Port of Vancouver, Washington and the Port of Portland, Oregon aboard the historic Sternwheeler Rose!

A special thanks to our generous 97th Annual Conference sponsors:

APP BOARD ELECTS PRESIDENT MARIO CORDERO & 2010-11 APP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

During the 97th Annual Conference last month, the APP Board of Directors unanimously elected Mario Cordero as APP's new President along with the 2010-11 APP Executive Committee.

President Mario Cordero was first appointed to the Port of Long Beach Commission in 2003 and has spearheaded the development of the pioneering Green Port Policy, which has led to environmental initiatives like the Clean Trucks Program, the Vessel Low-Sulfur Fuel Program, and the Technology Advancement Program. Cordero has more than two decades experience as a workers' compensation defense attorney. He is a member of the Federal Bar Association's Central District and the Long Beach Bar Association and is former chairman of the Workers Compensation committees for both the Long Beach Bar and the Los Angeles Mexican-American Bar Association. The Mexican-American Bar Association named him Attorney of the Year in 2007 and he received an environmental award the same year from the League of California Cities. Cordero has also served as a political science instructor at Long Beach City College and has sat on the City of Long Beach Community Development Commission for the past decade. He served as vice-chair of the Long Beach Ethics Review Task Force that developed a Code of Ethics for public officials. Cordero earned a law degree from the University of Santa Clara and a bachelor of science degree in political science from California State University, Long Beach.

Also elected to the 2010-11 APP Executive Committee:

First Vice President: James Matayoshi, RMI Ports Authority, Republic of Marshall Islands

Second Vice President: Dick Dodge, Port of Redwood City, California USA

Past President: Kim Puzey, Port of Umatilla, Oregon USA

Regional Representatives:

Elizabeth Blanchard, Port of Stockton, California USA

Dan Buell, Port of Longview, Washington USA

Ding-Hsun Hsiao, Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau, Taiwan

Brad Madelung, Port Alberni Port Authority, BC Canada

Ray McMoore, American Samoa Port Administration, Samoa

At-Large Representative:

Mike Giari, Port of Redwood City, California USA

Congratulations to President Cordero and all these newly-elected APP officers!

APP PEOPLE: NEW REDWOOD CITY COMMISSIONER

The Redwood City Council recently appointed Tom Cronin, a former planning commissioner and current executive director of the Police Athletic League (PAL), to a four-year term on the Redwood City Port Commission.

Cronin joined the PAL after three years as operations director for The Riekes Center for Human Enhancement in Menlo Park. Prior to that, he held non-profit consulting and management positions at Sequoia Hospital Foundation, Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center, Committee for Green Foothills, and Foundation for Global Community. Prior to his work in the non-profit sector he had a 20-year career at Hewlett Packard. He was on the Redwood City Planning Commission from 2003-2009. Cronin earned a degree in business administration from the University of Minnesota.

Cronin joins Redwood City Port Commissioners Dick Claire, Dick Dodge, Ralph Garcia, and Lorriana Kastrop. Larry Aikins recently left the Port Commission after 15 years of dedicated service.

Congratulations, Commissioner Cronin!

PORT OF LONG BEACH RECEIVES AAPA AWARD

The Port of Long Beach, California USA recently was recently awarded the prestigious 8th annual AAPA Facilities Engineering Award. The Port is being recognized for the $73-million environmental cleanup of a 123-acre Port-owned property known as Pier A West, which had been severely impacted by decades of oil production and use as a permitted disposal area for oil field-related waste before the site was acquired by the Port. Congratulations, Port of Long Beach!

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