dedicated to eradicating human trafficking in all its forms. Richmond cites last year’s Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act as an example of the U.S. stakeholders having “made revolutionary strides in shifting the burden from governments to businesses to prove the absence of forced labor in imported goods. Moving beyond mere transparency requirements, businesses are now shouldering an additional burden to map their supply chains, identify the presence of forced labor, and rectify the problem. Both in government procurement and through private-sector sourcing, economic purchasing power is pressing down through supply chains to root out forced labor.” HONORIFICS: The United Seamen’s Service 53rd annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Award winners are Edward W. Aldridge, president of CMA-CGM North America and American President Lines; Harold J. Daggett, president of the International Longshoreman’s Association; and Eric P. Ebeling, president and CEO of American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier Group. … Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) President and Chair Reta Jo Lewis is the 2022 recipient of the National Urban League’s Women of Power Award. … U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo hosted the 61st President’s “E” and “E Star” Awards ceremony July 13 in Washington, D.C. Honored with the “E” Award for Exports were: Academica International Studies, Miami, Florida; Best Buy Grocers, Seattle, Washington; Control Station, Manchester, Connecticut; Holtec Gas Systems, Saint Charles, Missouri; MGK International, Princeton, New Jersey; Montachem International, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Mott Corp., Farmington, Connecticut; Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada; Vertex International, Oak Brook, Illinois. Receiving the “E” Award for Export Service: M. Wasylik Associates, Waunakee, Wisconsin; First National Bank of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska; Montana Department of Commerce-Export Montana, Helena, Montana; Rapport International, Sudbury, Massachusetts; Tammany Corp., Mandeville, Louisiana. Getting the “E Star” Award for Exports, which recognizes previous “E” awardees 10 SEP/OCT 2022 that have reported four years of additional export growth: Beekley Medical, Bristol, Connecticut; Grand-Rock Co., Painesville, Ohio; Technologent, Irvine, California. The similar “E Star” Award for Export Service went to Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and WES, Denver, Colorado. ... The Chamber of Shipping of America’s Jones F. Devlin Award was bestowed to Jacksonville, Florida-based Crowley for the privately held maritime, energy and logistics company’s safe operation of 95 vessels it owns or manages. … Recent 2022 Gartner’s Magic Quadrant honorees include: Softeon and Generix Group for Warehouse Management Systems; Kuehne+Nagel for Third-Party Logistics; Coupa for Supply Chain Planning Solutions; Spryker for Digital Commerce; Willot for Cool Vendor; and Seegrid Corp. for Intralogistics Smart Robotics. ... Seegrid also recently earned three Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards issued by research company Energage. ... And Kuehne+Nagel for the first time been named to the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest corporations by revenue. A fellow first timer is Landstar System, the integrated transportation management solutions company out of Jacksonville. ... Landstar also recently gave out these awards: BCO Lifetime Achievement, Lenwood Ashton; All-Star Truck Giveaway, James Johnson; Tammy Clark, Safety Officer of the Year; ChampionX Chemical Technologies, M.U.S.T. Customer of the Year; Mike Cobb, Jeffrey C. Crowe-Robert E. Zonneville Lifetime Achievement Award; Matt Emer, Rookie of the Year. … GEP, a Clark, New Jersey-based provider of supply chain software and services, won the Best Initiative for Building Diverse Supplier Base Award at the annual ProcureCon Asia event in Singapore. Owen E. Herrnstadt was sworn in Aug. 2 as a member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM). … Ben Hart is the new executive director of the Utah Inland Port Authority. The former UIPA Board of Directors member had been deputy director of the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity (Go Utah) since March 2017. … The Port of Jacksonville, GLOBAL TRADERS ON THE MOVE: Florida, has promoted James Bennett to chief operating officer. He joined JAXPORT in 2017 as senior director of Engineering and Construction. … Sharon L. Weissman was elected president of the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners, the five-person body that oversees the Port of Long Beach in Southern California. Replacing Weissman as vice president is Bobby Olvera Jr. … Don Taylor has jumped from Universal Intermodal Services to RoadOne Intermodal Logistics, where he will serve as executive vice president of the Randolph, Massachusetts-based, single-source intermodal, distribution, and logistics services company. … Crowley has appointed Bob Karl as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s new business unit Crowley Wind Services, while Charles Jors has become chief naval architect for the company’s engineering services. … Marc Sawaya is the new CEO of Bolloré Logistics USA. … Kevin Kearns is the new chief sales officer and Ambyr O’Donnell is the new general counsel at Truckstop.com, a Boise, Idaho-based freight technology company serving carriers, brokers, and shippers. … Cameron Eastman has been appointed chief financial officer at Tampa, Florida-based supply chain digital ecosystem Transflo. … Kevin Walsh is the new director of Engineered Solutions and Jeff Vinkler is the new director of Software Engineering at Numina Group, a Woodridge, Illinois-based warehouse automation software company. … Brian Devine is the new president and CEO at Staffing Leadership Group, a Columbus, Ohio-based logistics staffing agency. … Christopher Gregg, who had been vice president of Airfreight, North America at Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, joined SEKO Logistics as senior vice president of Global Airfreight. Shawn Richard, who was appointed as SEKO’s first VP of Global Airfreight in 2018, has been promoted to SVP of International Service Centers and will remain based in New York. … Ashley Amidon is the new executive director of the International Wood Products Association, North America’s leading trade group for wood product imports. www.globaltrademag.com
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