BOTH Los Angeles and Long Beach ports have found
themselves with no leadership after the mayors of the two city which own and
operate their ports, induced one port manager to resign and sacked the other.
The City of Long Beach voted 6-3 this week to remove
Thomas Fields as president of the local harbour commission. Mr Fields had been
criticised by Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster over his travel expenses and plans to
relocate the port's headquarters.
Mr Fields addressed the council to defend his record,
reported London area Cargo World News. He said sacking a public commissioner
for differences of opinion would be "unprecedented" and an
"aberration" and urged council to wait until a city auditor's report.
Shortly after, commission vice president Nick Sramek
resigned without explanation, which Mayor Foster blamed on "fatigue."
At neighouring Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced
four new members to the five-member harbour commission board. Only current vice
president David Arian remains. The board is scheduled to elect a new president
and vice president at the commission's meeting on December 12.
Los Angeles is without a permanent executive director
after Geraldine Knatz resigned in October. Her resignation is now being linked
to cost overruns and governance failings relating to the TraPac automation
project, said the report.
Source : HKSG.
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