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By Lori Musser INFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATION: COMPETING GLOBALLY, ACTING LOCALLY It is a tall order. Nations rely on seaports to improve national competitiveness, respond to rapid shifts in global trade and transportation, and generate economic growth. The fact that almost every operational, infrastructure and communication element at every port and inland link in the U.S. is owned by the private sector ...

By Meredith Martino A DIGITAL VISION OF LEADERSHIP: USING TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE SUPPLY CHAIN IN LOS ANGELES Ports are used to competing with one another for business. CEOs and business development staff can easily tell potential customers about the advantages their facilities offer – the landside connections, the depth of the water and the number of berths available. But technology ...

By Tom Hranac XXV LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS OF PORTS AAPA celebrated a milestone by bringing together a record number of industry leaders for its 25th annual Latin American Congress of Ports in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. Continuing to strengthen its status as the premier port conference in Latin America, the Congress gathered more than 400 delegates from 32 countries and four ...

Each issue of AAPA Seaports Magazine is available in an interactive digital edition. Read online, anytime! With the digital edition of AAPA Seaports Magazine, you can: Navigate, magnify and bookmark pages with one click View issues instantly from more smartphones Read the issue online or download and print for later Share articles on third-party news and social networking sites Perform ...

Success can be interpreted in all kinds of ways. It doesn’t just pertain to bottom lines or TEUs or crane capacity. In this article, AAPA member ports answered the questions: What is the biggest success of your port since the recession? What obstacles did your port overcome to achieve this success? The answers prove that the definition of success is ...

During the 105th AAPA Annual Convention, Port of New Orleans President and CEO Gary LaGrange, PPM™ succinctly summed up his outlook on business and life when he said, “I don’t think there is a thing in life you should be doing if you are not having fun.” And, fun was not in short supply at the event. But it was ...

Each issue of AAPA Seaports Magazine is now available in an interactive digital edition. Read online, anytime! With the digital edition of AAPA Seaports Magazine, you can: Navigate, magnify and bookmark pages with one click View issues instantly from more smartphones Read the issue online or download and print for later Share articles on third-party news and social networking sites Perform a keyword ...

Seaports Congestion and Cargo Movements By Kathy A. Smith Port productivity and congestion are major areas of concern throughout the shipping industry that can be influenced by a variety of factors. And although ports face the ever-changing dynamics of balancing today’s capital expenditures against possible future profits, how ports approach the issues at play depends on their unique set of ...

The Future of Automation By Sandy Smith Everywhere one turns, industries are facing automation. Robots, artificial intelligence, driverless vehicles. Ports will be changing as well. But as the next wave of technological revolution looms, ports are slowly looking at ways to automate — without getting too far ahead of the technology. “We look at some of the technology evolutions to ...

Port Cooperation: In the Name of Productivity By Lori Musser Fiercely competitive at most times, seaports have been known to mine each other’s cargo and passengers, tenants and terminal operators, and even employees. They do come together to learn and to share best practices in some functional areas, and to speak in unison to legislators and regulators. What they rarely ...