Beginning this month or in early March, the re-jiggered service, which is made possible by the introduction of faster ships, will also include calls at Kobe, Japan, and Busan, Korea. The Port of Keelung, Taiwan, which is called on the existing service, will be dropped. Geraldine Knatz, the Port of Long Beach s managing director of development, will be among the panelists for a Feb. 8 discussion on air quality and the shipping industry hosted by Women in International Trade. The luncheon speaker will be former K Line executive Theodore Prince of Transgistics. Protecting Your Cargo will be topic of a panel discussion at the Feb. 13 breakfast meeting of the Foreign Trade Association of Southern California.
Admission is free, but seating is limited.
Long Beach Community College is one of the host campuses for a 10-part series on international trade sponsored by Sanwa Bank California. Port of Long Beach Executive Director Richard D. Steinke will discuss the State of the Port at the monthly luncheon meeting of the International Business Association. The event will be held at the Westin Long Beach Hotel. George McShea of Polar Tankers will talk about his company s Millennium Class ships at a Feb. 28 luncheon hosted by the Propeller Club. The lunch will be held at the West Coast Long Beach Hotel.