{"id":82570,"date":"2025-12-05T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82570\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:36:08","slug":"hacegaba-to-lead-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82570\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacegaba to lead Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The port of Long Beach\u2019s board of harbour commissioners has named Noel Hacegaba as the Californian port\u2019s next ceo, effective January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Hacegaba currently serves as the port\u2019s chief operating officer and has worked in various managerial roles at the port for 15 years. He succeeds Mario Cordero as ceo, who will step down at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hacegaba to lead Long Beach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17320_hacegabatoleadlongbeach_906261_crop.jpg\"  loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1123\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNoel Hacegaba is the ideal choice to lead the port of Long Beach,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heavyliftpfi.com\/business\/long-beach-elects-colonna-as-commission-president\/34519.article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">harbour commission president Frank Colonna<\/a>. \u201cNoel brings extensive experience managing all key port functions, deep knowledge of the goods movement industry and a collaborative leadership style that will serve the port well as we navigate future challenges and opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach mayor Rex Richardson added: \u201cThe port of Long Beach is entering a pivotal decade \u2013 one defined by bold climate action, digital transformation, and generational infrastructure investments. Dr. Hacegaba is well-positioned to guide this next chapter as we accelerate toward zero-emission operations, expand our global competitiveness, and continue driving economic opportunity for our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heavyliftpfi.com\/sectors\/ground-broken-for-long-beach-terminal-expansion\/34417.article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ground was broken on a terminal expansion project at the port of Long Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The port of Long Beach\u2019s board of harbour commissioners has named Noel Hacegaba as the Californian port\u2019s next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-82570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82570","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=82570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}