Award Luncheon honoring David P. Schulingkamp
Tuesday, March 2, 2004 12:00 Noon  (11:30 a.m. cash bar) The Plimsoll Club, 30th Floor World Trade Center (Free validated parking in the WTC Garage) Advance Registration Required	The C. Alvin Bertel Award is presented annually to an individual in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of the Greater New Orleans port area.

David Schulingkamp is the President of BargeLink LLC and MBLX Inc. barge logistics companies and a customs broker and Vice President of M.G. Maher & Co. He also is a past President of the New Orleans Board of Trade and past Chairman and current Commissioner of the Port of New Orleans and serves as the Honorary Consul of Brazil for Louisiana. In those capacities Mr. Schulingkamp has vigorously championed the cause of free trade and the maritime industry at home and abroad.

With the threat -- and eventual imposition -- of highly restrictive U.S. import tariffs on numerous steel products in 2001, which severely impacted the New Orleans port area, Mr. Schulingkamp helped to spearhead the creation of the Free Trade in Steel Coalition, a large nationwide group of port authorities, steel importers, labor unions, and maritime organizations that created visible and effective opposition to the restrictions, which were removed by the Administration in December 2003.

Selection Committee Organizations

Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans

The New Orleans Regional Chamber of Commerce

City of New Orleans

International Freight Forwarders and

Customs Brokers Association

Jefferson Parish Council

New Orleans Board of Trade

Steamship Association of Louisiana

Plaquemines Port, Harbor & Terminal District

Port of South Louisiana

St. Bernard Port, Harbor & Terminal District

World Trade Center of New Orleans

Advance registration required by March 1, 10:00 a.m.

Cost: $35 per person.
Tables of 8 can be reserved for $280.

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