The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny and Great Lakes Ship­yard will be exhibitors and atten­dees at this year’s Great Lakes Water­ways Con­fer­ence. The con­fer­ence will be held Feb­ru­ary 4–5 in Cleve­land, Ohio.

The 2014 Great Lakes Water­ways Con­fer­ence is the one mar­itime indus­try event that involves all seg­ments of the mar­itime com­mu­ni­ty in impor­tant delib­er­a­tions and ses­sions aimed specif­i­cal­ly at the Great Lakes region. The con­fer­ence will engage lead­ers from the Unit­ed States Coast Guard, the Cana­di­an Coast Guard, Trans­port Cana­da, the U.S. Army Corps of Engi­neers, the U.S. Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion, the Nation­al Oceano­graph­ic and Atmos­pher­ic Admin­is­tra­tion and oth­er gov­ern­men­tal orga­ni­za­tions with a stake in the Great Lakes mar­itime. In addi­tion, the con­fer­ence will involve a broad swath of key indi­vid­u­als from indus­try such as ports, ship­pers, ore car­ri­ers, ship­yards and ship repair facil­i­ties, pas­sen­ger ves­sel oper­a­tors, tug, tow­boat and barge oper­a­tors, marine sup­pli­ers and oth­ers with a stake in pro­mot­ing and sus­tain­ing a healthy and pros­per­ous Great Lakes mar­itime industry.

For more infor­ma­tion on the con­fer­ence and how to reg­is­ter, vis­it the Great Lakes Water­ways Con­fer­ence.