The Trade
is Transportation Seminar
"Alaska Transportation and Logistics
Update" |
On Wednesday, 7 November 2007,
World Trade Center Alaska held
The Trade is Transportation
Seminar at the Hilton Anchorage Hotel. This
special event featured 12 speakers
representing some of the state’s major
transportation infrastructure facilities as
well as representatives of transportation
and logistics firms. In addition,
presentations were also made by
organizations involved with development of
Alaska’s transportation capacity.
As a state
that relies on exports for a significant portion
of its overall economy, the ability to
efficiently ship goods around the state and
around the world is of great importance to both
current export operations and to the viability
of potential new projects that will generate
export activities.
Featured Presenters included:
Keynote Speaker:
Mead Treadwell, Chair - U.S. Arctic
Research Commission -
"The Arctic - New Crossroads of
Transportation and Communications".
Mort Plumb, Director - Ted
Stevens Anchorage International Airport
Jesse VanderZanden, Manager -
Fairbanks International Airport
Aves Thompson, Executive
Director - Alaska Trucking Association
Steve Silverstein, Vice
President, Market, Sales and Service - Alaska
Railroad Corporation
Dale Shaw, Senior Manager -
FedEx Express
Peter Nieuwland, International
Manager, Alaska Division - United Parcel Service
Oliver Hedgepeth, Associate
Professor, Logistics - University of Alaska
Anchorage
Steve Ribuffo, Deputy Director
- Port of Anchorage
Steve Denton, Vice President,
Usibelli Coal Mine - Seward Coal Terminal
Dennis Mitchell, Regional
Manager Alaska, Lynden International - Council
of Supply Chain Management Professionals, Alaska
Roundtable
Rick Pollock,
Vice President, Global Projects - Lynden
International
Betsy Bacon, Director, Cargo
Operations - Alaska Airlines
Marc Van Dongen, Port Director
- Port MacKenzie
