Norman Anderson, the President & CEO of CG/LA Infrastructure LLC based in Washington, D.C., will be present to announce that CG/LA's Fourth Annual Latin American Leadership Forum will be held in New Orleans on March 28-29, 2006. The international event is expected to bring 500-600 executives to the city for the two-plus day meeting that will focus on the Top 40 infrastructure projects in Latin America. It represents an outstanding opportunity to support and showcase New Orleans and the world-class industries that Louisiana offers to Latin America in inter-modal transportation and logistics, shipbuilding, oil & gas, agribusiness, and other sectors.

The sponsors of the 2006 Forum include SAS Institute, Aon, Banco do Brasil, Black & Veatch, Cemex, Global Crossing, Felsberg & Associates, Patton Boggs, Taylor-DeJohngh, Exxon, and the World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC). Leading international firms in Louisiana also will be invited to participate as sponsors.

This will be the second major international event for New Orleans to be announced at the WTC in recent weeks. On October 13 the World Trade Centers Association, comprised of 278 WTCs in 78 countries, announced that it will hold its 2007 Annual General Assembly in New Orleans to demonstrate its confidence and support of all WTCs in restoring their longstanding trading ties with New Orleans.

Please let us know if you or your representative will be able to attend the November 11 press conference by replying to this e-mail message or calling Susannah Coolidge at the WTC at (504) 529-1601, ext. 222.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday.

Charles Nelson