Immediate needs and long-term support to help in rebuilding the northern Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian continue to be a high priority for AAPA and its members. Efforts to help people in the Bahamas have included assistance from Georgia Ports Authority, which gathered disaster relief supplies and filled shipping containers; Port Tampa Bay, along with industry partners, that filled eight containers totaling 113,500 pounds of medical supplies and dry good necessities; and The Port of Virginia, which also collaborated to send critical supplies. AAPA is proud of the support its members have provided to disaster stricken port authority personnel and their families in the past, and urges industry colleagues to donate to the AAPA Port Employees Emergency Relief Fund since we anticipate the number of current and future requests for assistance will be significant.

The 2019 AAPA Annual Convention is taking place next week and The Port of Virginia is looking forward to hosting you!  Enhance your Convention experience and download the Eventsential App. Available in both the App Store (iPhone) and Google Play (Android), Eventsential puts all the important information about the AAPA Annual Convention at your fingertips. Access up-to-date information about sessions, speakers, exhibitors and evening events, and keep track of what people are saying on Twitter about the event. Eventsential is free and easy to use. Contact Meredith Martino or Tom Hranac if you have questions about downloading or using Eventsential. 

Winners were announced for the seventh annual Port of Long Beach PHOTO Program competition. Photography from all the participants in the popular community arts project will be on display throughout October. The Port of Montréal completely changed the format of its annual Port in the City event. The new version was a big hit and close to 400 people boarded tour buses for a guided tour of the terminals.

Port Milwaukee will welcome the season’s final passenger cruise ship when the Hamburg arrives with more than 300 passengers. Milwaukee will have a total of ten vessel visits this year which is more than double the number from 2018.

Clean cargo-handling operations at the Port of Los Angeles are taking a giant leap forward with the demonstration of the world’s first zero-emissions top handlers. The Northwest Seaport Alliance, Port of Seattle, Port of Tacoma, Washington State Ferries, NOAA, and the Puget Sound Partnership co-convened a workshop of a broad range of experts and interests to identify ways to reduce underwater noise in efforts to support recovery of the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales.

Port Tampa Bay President and CEO Paul Anderson announced the hiring of David M. Delac as its new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Delac joins Port Tampa Bay with more than 20 years of experience in city and county government. 

The Port of Long Beach collected a prestigious Clean Air Award for an education outreach program that connected local high school students to a project developing non-polluting, zero-emissions cargo-moving technology on the docks.

The Alabama State Port Authority director and chief executive officer James K. Lyons and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District commander Colonel Sebastien Joly signed the Mobile Harbor Pre-Construction, Engineering and Design Agreement at the Port Authority’s headquarters in downtown Mobile. Liebherr Container Cranes announced that it has received an order for two Megamax ship to shore (STS) container cranes for the MSC Gate Terminal Bremerhaven.

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Executive Director, Port Townsend, Washington; Port of Port Townsend

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