{"id":5210,"date":"2020-11-23T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2020-11-23T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T22:00:14","slug":"commissioner-sola-visits-houston-for-panel-discussion-and-meetings-with-local-maritime-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/commissioner-sola-visits-houston-for-panel-discussion-and-meetings-with-local-maritime-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Sola Visits Houston for Panel Discussion and Meetings with Local Maritime Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Louis Sola recently visited Houston, participating in events and meetings with local maritime and trade executives where the current state of the industry, infrastructure required to support shipping, and the gateway\u2019s future were among the topics of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The visit centered on Commissioner Sola\u2019s participation on the \u201cState of Ports\u201d panel, a discussion organized by the East End Chamber of Commerce for Port Houston Appreciation Day held on November 12. During his portion of the panel, Commissioner Sola was asked about his ongoing Fact Finding 30 examination of COVID-19 impacts to the passenger cruise industry, as well as a variety of operational and market issues related to container shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Separate from his panel appearance, Commissioner Sola met with a group of Port Houston stakeholders about topics of concern to vessel operators and port customers such as widening the channel, restrictions on vessel traffic, impacts of COVID-19, and plans for port expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The session with industry was followed by a meeting with Port Houston executives and a tour of their facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Before completing his visit to Houston, Commissioner Sola met with Alan Robb, President, South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District of International Longshoreman\u2019s Association, and other members of the union. In addition to similar topics covered in other meetings, Commissioner Sola was briefed about labor issues and a joint labor\/port management initiative designed to improve turn times for dray operators serving the port.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5211\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HoustonCropped.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5211\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5211\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HoustonCropped-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HoustonCropped-1024x673.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HoustonCropped-300x197.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HoustonCropped-768x505.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HoustonCropped-150x99.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HoustonCropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commissioner Louis Sola (Right) receives briefing about port infrastructure from Roger Guenther (Left), Executive Director Port Houston.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5212\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sagcd_sola2HoustonILA.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5212\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5212\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sagcd_sola2HoustonILA-1014x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1014\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sagcd_sola2HoustonILA-1014x1024.jpg 1014w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sagcd_sola2HoustonILA-150x152.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sagcd_sola2HoustonILA-297x300.jpg 297w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sagcd_sola2HoustonILA-768x776.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sagcd_sola2HoustonILA.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commissioner Louis Sola (Right) and Alan Robb, President South Atlantic & Gulf Coast District ILA discuss impact to longshore labor from COVID-19.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Louis Sola recently visited Houston, participating in events and meetings with local maritime and trade executives where the current state of the industry, infrastructure required to support shipping, and the gateway\u2019s future were among the topics of discussion. The visit centered on Commissioner Sola\u2019s participation on the \u201cState of... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"\/commissioner-sola-visits-houston-for-panel-discussion-and-meetings-with-local-maritime-leaders\/\">Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,31],"tags":[42],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5213,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions\/5213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}