2025 Port Log Summer

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September 3, 2025   |By

RREDI’s Washington Mardi Gras breakfast

Employee Appreciation Workshop

Vickie Lewis-Clark, Lynee Ancar, Amber Becnel, Tamara Kennedy, Commissioner Florence Dumas, Patti Crockett, and Nyler Williams at River Region Chamber of Commerce’s Women Empowerment Luncheon.
PortSL’s Ted Knight (center) with Costa Rica’s JAPDEVA team (L-R): Freddy Meza Alvarado – Projects Developer and Supervisor, Anner Garcia Obregón – Region Development Manager, Jose Lidier Azofeifa González – Chief of staff, Sucy Wing Ching – Executive Director, Karla Piedra Alfaro – Port Manager, Jorge Garcia Calvo – General Manager, and Jheynold Lunan Williams – Chief Operations
Press conference announcing the U.S. Department of the Interior’s decision to not proceed with the creation of a Historic Landmark District. This action saved 22,747 acres on the West Bank of the Mississippi River from onerous federal oversight that slowed economic development, job creation, and future progress for the families of St. John, St. James, and St. Charles Parishes.
Deputy Port Director Brian Cox & Chief of Staff Tamara Kennedy receive Maritime Port Executive program certificates.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Scott Mason and Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Aurelia Giacometto visited PortSL for a roundtable discussion with local business, stakeholders, and government officials on the balance of protecting our environment while growing our economy.

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Leaders from the Mississippi River Commission and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers touched down at PortSL for discussions on economic development projects along the Lower Mississippi River -Woodland Biofuels, Life For Tyres, and Hyundai’s $6 billion first-of-its kind steel manufacturing facility- and issues like the maintenance of America’s marine superhighway, the Mississippi River. Commission Chairman Joey Murray with leaders from the Mississippi River Commission and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

We Work the Waterways in Madisonville, Louisiana.

Northshore schools students at We Work the Waterways event in Madisonville, Louisiana. As a dedicated supporter of the We Work the Waterways program, Senior Advisor of Commercial Operations Ted Knight and PIO Alex Hernández participated its event in Madisonville, Louisiana.

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USMMA Interns

USMMA cadets Philip Tomac and Boris Dimitrov visiting E-Crane’s facility in New Iberia with CEO Steve Osborne, P.E. and VP of Business Development Aaron Bennett. The tour included E-Crane’s newest crane, the Creole King, which will be deployed by Cooper Consolidated to assist in stevedoring on the Lower Mississippi River.
Once again, we had the pleasure of having two fine young interns from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, M/S Boris Dimitrov and M/S Philip Tomac (L) pictured with members of PortSL’s marine operations crew.
USMMA interns briefed on LA DOTD’s structure and role in maintaining/developing all modes of transportation in LA with emphasis on Maritime Industry. L-R: M/S Boris Dimitrov, Senior Advisor of Commercial Operations Ted Knight, LA DOTD’s Molly Bourgoyne, Keira Coleman, and Matthew Malphurs, and M/S Philip Tomac.
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy interns M/S Philip Tomac and M/S Boris Dimitrov with George Burkley of the Maritime Pilots Institute in Covington, LA.
L-R: Senior Advisor of Commercial Operations Ted Knight, Maritime Pilots Institute’s John Botsford, and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy interns M/S M/S Boris Dimitrov and Philip Tomac.

International Economic Development Week kickoff breakfast

Legislative Update Reception

BASF Tech Academy visits PortSL to learn about the maritime industry

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