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Great Lakes Waterways Conference 2015

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny and Great Lakes Ship­yard will be attend­ing the Great Lakes Water­ways Con­fer­ence in Cleve­land, Ohio from Feb­ru­ary 10–11. Please vis­it our booth to get copies of The G Mag­a­zine or oth­er infor­ma­tion, or sim­ply to intro­duce your­self in per­son — we look for­ward to meet­ing you.

Great Lakes Water­ways Con­fer­ence 2015

The 2015 Con­fer­ence pro­vides a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet key pol­i­cy mak­ers, con­verse with indus­try lead­ers, and net­work with col­leagues from across the region. This indus­try event includes all seg­ments of the Great Lakes-Sea­way mar­itime indus­try. This year’s con­fer­ence agen­da will fea­ture ses­sions on:

  • The Great Lakes Gov­er­nors’ Mar­itime Ini­tia­tive and work being done by indi­vid­ual states to enhance the mar­itime sector;
  • State-of-the-art tools being offered by the U.S. Nation­al Ocean­ic and Atmos­pher­ic Admin­is­tra­tion (NOAA) to bet­ter serve navigators;
  • New research high­light­ing pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor invest­ments in the Great Lakes-Sea­way system;
  • Efforts to devel­op the Great Lakes cruise tourism mar­ket, includ­ing new reg­u­la­to­ry reforms to improve the cus­tomer experience