Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission Mario Cordero will be honored with the 2015 Connie Award, presented by the Containerization & Intermodal Institute (CII) at the Renaissance Hotel in Long Beach on Tuesday, September 29. CII will present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Tay Yoshitani, recently retired CEO of the Port of Seattle.
Cordero was appointed Chairman of the FMC by President Barack Obama on April 1, 2013. Previously, he served as an FMC Commissioner. Included in his over 30 years of private legal practice and public service, he spent eight years on the Board of Harbor Commissioners for the Port of Long Beach (POLB).
Tay Yoshitani … served at the Port of Oakland, Port of Baltimore and the Port of Los Angeles. From 2004 to 2007, he served as Senior Advisor to the National Association of Waterfront Employers and as Executive Director of the Port of Oakland from 2001 to 2004, led a significant expansion of both the seaport and airport, overseeing environmental permitting and planning that enabled the airport expansion to use “green building” technology.
