Dinesh Sharma, Director of London-based Drewry Maritime Advisors, will speak about private investment in ports at AAPA’s Shifting Trade Seminar, June 15-16, in Tampa, Fla. His presentation will provide insights on opportunities for investment, including environmental capital expenditure projects such as building microgrids at ports. Sharma leads port projects for multi-lateral development banks, private investors, terminal operators and shipping lines on ...

AAPA celebrates the long career of Jim Walker, Director of Navigation Policy and Legislation, as he retires from the workforce. Jim is responsible for handling waterside infrastructure issues and relevant legislative and regulatory matters, including AAPA’s Quality Partnership Initiative (QPI) with the Army Corps of Engineers. He also serves as staff liaison to the Harbors and Navigation Committee. Following a ...

AAPA is pleased to announce the hiring of new staff to fill vacant positions and recognition of staff promotions in the association. An updated organizational chart can be found here.  Margaret (Maggie) Soergel has joined AAPA as the new Director of Conferences and Events. Maggie brings a variety of experience including event management and strategy development from her previous work with ...

On Monday, May 23, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. ET, the Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) is holding a panel called “Maritime Decarbonization: It’s Complicated” in honor of National Maritime Day (Sunday, May 22). The event will focus on the challenges of decarbonizing the U.S. maritime industry and identifying how the public and private sectors can better collaborate across multiple ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced an additional $14.8 million in funding for America’s Marine Highway Program (AMHP), bringing funding to a total of $39.8 million. In March, MARAD had announced almost $25 million in grant funding for the AMHP via the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL, also called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, or IIJA). This $14.8 million ...

Last week, the Maritime Administration (MARAD) released an amended Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY2022) Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) grant applications. The updated NOFO reflects the $234 million appropriated for FY2022, which Congress passed in March under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, allocating over $234 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for PIDP in FY2022. ...

Next week kicks off Infrastructure Week, and the American Association of Port Authorities and the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System are conducting a virtual panel to discuss the importance of historic and generational investments in the infrastructure of the Marine Transportation System. Panelists will discuss how funding provided for MTS infrastructure in recent legislation, such as the Bipartisan ...

John Porcari, U.S. Port Envoy to the Biden administration, will kick-off the AAPA Shifting Trade Seminar being held June 15-16 in Tampa, Fla. His keynote address will provide attendees with exclusive insights into how President Biden and his top advisors understand the congestion crisis and what ports are doing about it. Envoy Porcari advises the Biden Administration through this role on ...

The Executive Management Conference and Marine Terminal Management Training will take place April 25-29, 2022 in Savannah, GA. Marine Terminal Management Training and the Executive Management Conference is the port industry’s most comprehensive continuing education experience and gold standard professional development event. This week-long intensive program is attended by port professionals and includes materials from the two cornerstone courses of the ...

AAPA Shifting Trade Seminar will take place June 15-16, 2022 at the Westin Tampa Waterside in Tampa, Fla. AAPA’s Shifting Trade seminar is the port industry’s most influential and critical economic event and is held annually in Tampa, Florida. The program examines global economic trends that affect the port industry in the U.S. and Western Hemisphere and is therefore attended by ...