Supply Chain

Christine Harada on Deploying Public & Private Investment in Grid Infrastructure

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Christine Harada

Christine Harada discusses the administration's investment in grid resilience and innovation, the impact of the CHIPS and Science Act on advancing semiconductor technologies, and the importance of modernizing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Gene Seroka, POLA Director, On Bringing More Cargo Back to Los Angeles

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Gene Seroka

While the Port of Los Angeles’s Executive Director was in Asia and Australia this week to meet with various groups to promote trade in LA, Director Gene Seroka was interviewed by Bloomberg Asia’s Heslinda Amin and David Ingles to discuss where the Port stands at the midpoint of the year and just before its peak season. Based on the high inventory levels and the movement of some cargo to other ports around the country, Seroka anticipates a lower than usual peak season.

On Financing Global Development & Combatting Climate Change: US DFC’s Jake Levine

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Jake Levine

In alignment with the Biden administration’s government-wide commitment to combatting the climate crisis, Jake Levine serves as the first Chief Climate Officer of the US International Development Finance Corporation. As a global development finance institution, in this exclusive interview with VX News, he elaborates on the agency’s goal to drive a surge in climate finance in countries around the world focused on clean energy, ports, agriculture, the blue economy, and more. 

Executive Director Gene Seroka: Port of LA’s Successful Clean Up of Maritime Backlog

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With the pandemic-induced container ship backlog at the Ports of LA and Long Beach officially cleared, VX News spoke with the Port of Los Angeles’s Executive Director, Gene Seroka, to elaborate on POLA’s efforts to ease supply chain congestion.

Greening the Global Supply Chain with Hydrogen Power—CoMotion LA Panel Excerpt

In November, leaders in new mobility convened at CoMotion LA 2021 for a series of discussions and presentations rethinking how people and goods move in and between cities and places around globe. In a panel moderated by Sarah Busch of the Green Hydrogen Coalition, Shell Hydrogen Commercial Manager Abhishek Banerjee and Underground Storage Market Leader at WSP USA Scyller Borglum discussed how green hydrogen can revolutionize the global supply chain.

Port of LA's Gene Seroka Unpacks COVID-19 Impacts on Goods Movement

Gene Seroka

With COVID-19 reducing the output of Chinese manufacturers by half—sending shocks through the global supply chain and reducing the volume of goods moving worldwide—VX News reached out in late March to Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka to offer a platform for sharing Port priorities for safeguarding operations at the West Coast’s largest trading port.