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PAL’s 25th Annual Conference
Mark your calendars. PAL’s 2008 Conference will be held in Shreveport, Louisiana from March 12-March 14th. This conference will be co-hosted by the Port of Shreveport-Bossier, the Natchitoches Parish Port Commission, the Alexandria Regional Port Commission and the Red River Waterway Commission. The host hotel will be the Eldorado Resort Casino. The conference room rate is $100 per night. Call 877/602-0711 and use the room block code Port 308. Make plans to attend. It promises to be a great event!
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STATEWIDE PORT STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PLAN (SEDP) STAKEHOLDER BRIEFING HELD AT DOTD
Over 50 port stakeholders were briefed on the SEDP planning process in Baton Rouge on February 26, 2008 at the first stakeholder briefing. Attendees from across the state represented deep-water shippers and carriers; oil and gas interests; and inland waterborne cargo providers and users.
The objectives of the briefing were to summarize the history and logic leading up to the project, to brief all stakeholders as to the purpose and statewide scope of the planning effort, to identify the process being used in conducting the study, and to report on preliminary findings to date.
Of utmost importance was data provided by the attendees relative to the ports and waterways system of the state gathered during the meeting and in individual discussions following the meeting. This data is now being evaluated and will be presented in the form of “issues” to be assessed by port staffs and the consultant team.
In order to gather more information, particularly from the private sector, there will be additional discussions with providers and users of the state’s ports and waterways system via a series of small focus group meetings. These meetings are being organized by both user function and regional proximity and will lead to the second port directors’ conference tentatively scheduled for late April.
