{"id":140922,"date":"2026-01-20T03:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140922\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:02:10","slug":"port-of-long-beach-ceo-brings-global-trade-perspective-to-world-economic-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140922\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Long Beach CEO Brings Global Trade Perspective to World Economic Forum &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomlengthsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/unnamed-2026-01-19T092954.323.avif\" data-caption=\"Port of Long Beach CEO Dr. Noel Hacegaba. Photo courtesy of POLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image cwvlazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randomlengthsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/unnamed-2026-01-19T092954.323.avif\"  data- alt=\"Unnamed 2026 01 19T092954.323\" title=\"unnamed - 2026-01-19T092954.323\"\/><\/a>Port of Long Beach CEO Dr. Noel Hacegaba. Photo courtesy of POLB    <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Port of Long Beach CEO Dr. Noel Hacegaba will speak this week at the World Economic Forum. The annual gathering brings together world leaders from government, business and academia in Davos, Switzerland to engage in forward-looking discussions to address global issues and set priorities. Hacegaba will be the only top executive of a U.S. port authority at the summit that is expected to include 850 executives and national leaders from 130 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Hacegaba \u2013 who was invited to attend the forum \u2013 said he will use the opportunity to ensure that customers and stakeholders from the global shipping community understand the Port of Long Beach\u2019s position as a top international seaport and its visionary plans for the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Port of Long Beach is a global port and in a time of dynamic trade policies and priorities, we can\u2019t afford not to be at the table when the world\u2019s top economic leaders are discussing the future,\u201d said Hacegaba. \u201cOur new long-term cargo forecast predicts we will double our annual container volume at Long Beach by 2050. Achieving that will require visionary innovation, advances in workforce development and international cooperation as never before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 15, Hacegaba delivered his first \u201cState of the Port\u201d address, laying out a bold new vision for the Port reaching the future as a zero-emissions, job-creating, community-benefiting global trade leader. He also announced that the Port achieved its highest cargo volume ever, despite the specter of new tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/LB-Port-address\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/LB-Port-address<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port of Long Beach CEO Dr. Noel Hacegaba. Photo courtesy of POLB \u00a0 Port of Long Beach CEO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[71063,15790,71064,131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-140922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-globaltrade","9":"tag-portoflongbeach","10":"tag-worldeconomicforum","11":"tag-long-beach","12":"tag-long-beach-headlines","13":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}