Port of Long Beach cleans up in communication awards

Long Beach

For the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, the Port of Long Beach collected the astir awards from the American Association of Port Authorities for communications campaigns — an awesome accomplishment peculiarly successful airy of the COVID-19 restrictions implicit the past year.

Long Beach won 9 first-place Awards of Excellence, including the wide run class for the wide-reaching campaigns dealing with COVID-19. In the past year, the larboard opened a COVID-19 investigating site, distributed 300,000 pieces of idiosyncratic protective equipment, creating a COVID-19-specific website and adapting outreach activities to conscionable social-distancing protocols.

Other apical awards came for the virtual expansive opening lawsuit for the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project (a projected sanction of Long Beach International Gateway Bridge is moving done the authorities legislature), the 2021 State of the Port and respective different conversions from in-person to virtual events.

Long Beach added 3 Awards of Distinction and 1 Award of Merit for a full of 13 awards for the year. That was an grant for each introduction submitted.

Also, the Port of Long Beach earned the AAPA’s Lighthouse Award of Excellence for Environmental Improvement: Mitigation, for its efforts to lessen the biology impacts of goods question done the Community Grants Program. That assistance programme offers wealth to assemblage efforts to mitigate aerial contamination and different issues.

“Our communications and biology programs persisted successful serving the assemblage portion driving location the connection that the Port of Long Beach remained unfastened and operating during the unprecedented challenges resulting from COVID-19,” Mario Cordero, larboard enforcement director, said. “These efforts solidify the port’s lasting arsenic an manufacture person susceptible of connecting with a divers audience.”