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FIRST TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS FORUM
Over 110 persons gathered on
Friday, February 20, 2009 at Universidad
Central de Bayamón for the FIRST
Transportation and Logistics FORUM organized
by College of Business Administration at the
Ponce Campus of the Pontifical Catholic
University of Puerto Rico (PCUPR) and Maine
Maritime Academy (MMA) in Castine, Maine;
with the collaboration of Caribbean Shipping
Association (CSA) and the Puerto Rico
Shipping Association (PRSA). Representatives
of the transportation, manufactures,
business community, distributors,
wholesalers, shipping industry, homeland
security, and academia met in Bayamón to
discuss trends and future of transportation
and logistics worldwide and specifically in
the Caribbean region.
On hand to greet and welcome
the participants were Prof. Marcelina Velez
de Santiago, President of PCUPR, Prof. Nilda
Nadal Carreras, President of UCB, Prof.
Vivianne Asad, and President of the
Organizing Committee, as well as Dr. Jaime
L. Santiago Canet, Dean of the College of
Business Administration at PCUPR.
Speakers for the FORUM were:
Ms. Wendy Vallejo, from the U.S. Homeland
Security Department, Attorney Gamaliel
Rodríguez, expert in Maritime Law, Dr.
William de Witt, and Dean of the School of
Business at MMA, Dr. Eric Lambourdiere and
Dr. Elsa Corbin from the University of the
French West Indies (UFWI) in Martinique. Dr.
Lambourdiere is the Chair of the Logistics
Department at UFWI.
Distinguished personalities
in attendance included Mr. Fernando Rivera,
President of the Caribbean Shipping
Association, Atty. Hernán F. Ayala Rubio,
President of the Puerto Rico Shipping
Association, and Senator Norma Burgos.
Plans
are already being made for the SECOND
Transportation and Logistics FORUM to take
place in 2010.
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