Mario Cordero, a former Port of Long Beach harbor commissioner, was forced out last week as chairman of the five-member Federal Maritime Commission after President Donald Trump replaced him with Republican Michael Khouri.
The change of agency heads is customary when a new administration comes into office, officials said. Cordero, a Democrat whose term expires in 2019, said Monday he has no immediate plans to leave the commission – however he dangled the possibility that he would be interested in running Long Beach’s port.
Cordero is the only commissioner from the West Coast, and has deep ties to the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
