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AAPA Seminars: Commissioners, Admin & Legal Issues

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Make Plans to Attend the AAPA Commissioners Seminar

Plans are underway for an outstanding Commissioners Seminar, June 16-18 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. There is no better program for a thorough examination of the role of governing board members, a great source of information for both new and experienced commissioners. The seminar will focus on a commissioner’s role in an evolving public port environment faced with challenging economic conditions. 

New sessions this year are:
  • "Success through Leadership – A Business Perspective,"
  • "Success through Customer Service," and
  • An interactive session on "Ports and Local Communities – Social License and Engagement."
Other sessions focus on Trade Patterns and the Outlook for Global Markets as well as The Changing Global Economy — Impacts on Seaports and Trade.

Other panel themes include: 
  • "Issues of Most Relevance to Public Port Governing Boards," 
  • "The Uncertain Political Landscape – Navigating Port Priorities Through Rough Waters,"
  • "Current Legal and Liability Issues for Ports and You, the Governing Board Member," and
  • "Board Management Relations." 
Interactive discussions of established best practices provide an exceptional educational experience for port commissioners and port executives alike.  

For full program and lodging information, visit the AAPA website. This year’s seminar promises to be exceptional.

Don’t be left out! Register today!

Where Else Can You Find Singing Attorneys, Flying Drones, and New Orleans Jazz? 

The AAPA Port Administration and Legal Issues Seminar held April 7-9 in New Orleans was an outstanding and sometimes amusing program full of content on timely issues. Mike Rubin of McGlinchey Stafford in Baton Rouge spoke expertly on ethics restrictions in negotiations in a presentation replete with Star Wars references, call and response with the audience, and capped by a song written especially for the event summarizing his key points. Flight Guardian’s session on authorized and unauthorized use of unmanned aerial vehicles (aka drones) in and around ports concluded with a live demonstration, a drone hovering over the meeting room. Host Port of New Orleans treated seminar goers to a reception complete with a New Orleans jazz band.

AAPA Environment Committee members, who were meeting in New Orleans at the same time, were invited to join the program for two sessions, one on Corps of Engineers permitting and the other, moderated by Environmental Committee chair Heather Woods, on resolving environmental and related insurance claims. Other sessions addressed real estate issues, ever evolving employment and human resource issues, record retention, the role of attorneys in community relations, Shipping Act regulation, insurance and loss mitigation, terminal productivity and operations, and anticorruption and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Presentations are available on the AAPA website.
 

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