{"id":5395,"date":"2026-06-11T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:27:36","slug":"lighthouse-awards-submissions-close-tomorrow-have-you-applied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/lighthouse-awards-submissions-close-tomorrow-have-you-applied\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighthouse Awards Submissions Close Tomorrow: Have You Applied?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>The deadline to submit for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ports.org\/unifying\/content.aspx?ItemNumber=23150\">2026 AAPA Lighthouse Awards<\/a>\u00a0is tomorrow, June 12. If your port or company has driven innovation, improved operations, or made a measurable impact this year, there is still time to put your work forward for recognition.<br>The program honors excellence across three tracks: Port Awards (exclusively for AAPA Port members) across nine specialty areas with large and small port categories; the Beacon of Excellence Award, new for 2026, recognizing one port submission for exceptional innovation and measurable impact; and the Maritime Innovator of the Year Award (exclusively for AAPA Industry Solution Provider members) for technologies, products, or services advancing port operations, safety, sustainability, or efficiency.<br>Winners will be recognized at the 115th AAPA Annual Convention, September 28-30, 2026, in New Orleans.Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ports.org\/unifying\/content.aspx?ItemNumber=23150\">Lighthouse Awards webpage<\/a>\u00a0for full details and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aapa.getregistered.net\/2026-lighthouse-awards\">to submit<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline to submit for the\u00a02026 AAPA Lighthouse Awards\u00a0is tomorrow, June 12. If your port or company has driven innovation, improved operations, or made a measurable impact this year, there is still time to put your work forward for recognition.The program honors excellence across three tracks: Port Awards (exclusively for AAPA Port members) across nine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":4398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-insights-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}