{"id":2064,"date":"2020-04-30T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:19:42","slug":"port-industry-leader-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/30\/port-industry-leader-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Industry Leader Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"424\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/8-Chris-Connor_headshot_vt.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/8-Chris-Connor_headshot_vt.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/8-Chris-Connor_headshot_vt-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Western Hemisphere\u2019s major ports suffered the full economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic in March and April as global trade diminished significantly. AAPA President and CEO Chris Connor went on the air April 25 with Dan Ronan, host of Transport Topics Radio and SiriusXM\u2019s \u201cRoad Dog Trucker,\u201d&nbsp;to share his feelings and perspectives about the impacts to seaports from the COVID-19 pandemic and their heroic response to the unique challenges the crisis is bringing. Listen to a four-minute&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ELN97IAIpzuK3H0Ns66h-6uXmQpgqD6u\/view?usp=drive_web\" target=\"_blank\">snippet of the interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/tk2dj2n90eywbjy\/AACddh6tK-9bYAzoJdm7yI6Na?dl=0\">Click here<\/a><\/strong> <strong>for the full 22-minute interview<\/strong>, or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ELN97IAIpzuK3H0Ns66h-6uXmQpgqD6u\/view?usp=drive_web\">Click here<\/a><\/strong> <strong>for a 4-minute snippet of that interview<\/strong> that succinctly captures Chris\u2019 thoughts on the impacts from and response to the COVID-19 pandemic with regard to ports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Courtesy of Transport Topics and SiriusXM.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAPA President and CEO Chris Connor  shared his perspectives about the impacts of COVID-19 in this interviewed that aired April 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,437,4,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-community-involvement","category-features","category-presidents-message"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}