{"id":5459,"date":"2026-07-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:00:11","slug":"maritime-historian-to-kick-off-annual-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/maritime-historian-to-kick-off-annual-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime Historian to Kick Off Annual Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AAPA&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aapa.getregistered.net\/2026-annual-convention\">Annual Convention &amp; Expo<\/a><\/strong>, September 28-30 in New Orleans, will open with a keynote from Dr. Salvatore Mercogliano, maritime historian at Campbell University and host of the &#8220;What&#8217;s Going on With Shipping?&#8221; podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The session will examine the Trump administration&#8217;s Maritime Action Plan and what &#8220;Restoring American Maritime Dominance&#8221; means for port infrastructure, including the proposed fee on foreign-built vessels and capital flowing to newly designated Maritime Prosperity Zones. The talk will be introduced by Omar Garcia, Chief External Affairs Officer at the Port of Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aapa.getregistered.net\/2026-annual-convention\/register\">Registration<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/book.passkey.com\/event\/51133117\/owner\/6139\/home\">group hotel rates<\/a> (ending September 4) are available now. We can&#8217;t wait to see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAPA&#8217;s Annual Convention &amp; Expo, September 28-30 in New Orleans, will open with a keynote from Dr. Salvatore Mercogliano, maritime historian at Campbell University and host of the &#8220;What&#8217;s Going on With Shipping?&#8221; podcast. The session will examine the Trump administration&#8217;s Maritime Action Plan and what &#8220;Restoring American Maritime Dominance&#8221; means for port infrastructure, including &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":5464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[1297],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-insights-blog","tag-annual-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","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=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5460,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/5460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}