Port of Long Beach names leaders for its Commercial Operations Bureau

Two larboard employees were named this week to enactment posts successful the Commercial Operations Bureau astatine the Port of Long Beach.

The announcements were made astatine the committee gathering connected Monday, Sept. 20.

Samantha Galltin was named managing manager of the Commercial Operations Bureau, a section that is made up of the Business Development, Tenant Services and Operations, and Security Services divisions.

She replaces Kenneth W. Duncan, who near the larboard earlier this year.

Galltin has been with the larboard since November 2002, erstwhile she was hired arsenic adjunct manager of Business Development. Before that, she’d been with the BNSF Railway for 13 years, astir precocious arsenic manager of Port Business Development of the Pacific Southwest and Gulf.

During her clip astatine BNSF, she besides was manager of Industrial Product Sales, manager of Customer Integration and trainmaster. She has a master’s grade successful planetary proviso concatenation absorption from USC and a bachelor’s grade successful communications from Villanova University.

Carlo Luzzi, a 30-year larboard veteran, was appointed acting manager of Tenant Services and Operations, replacing Glenn Farren, who near the larboard earlier this month.

The larboard has launched a recruiting process for the imperishable position.

Luzzi has served arsenic manager of Intermodal Operations since 2014, which included oversight of truck, marine terminal and railroad operations. Previously, helium was manager of Rail Transportation and a civilian technologist adjunct and associate.

He joined the larboard successful 1988 arsenic an intern and has a master’s grade successful nationalist medication and a bachelor’s grade successful civilian engineering, some from California State Long Beach.

The Port of Long Beach is the 2nd busiest seaport successful the U.S. Together with the neighboring Port of Los Angeles — the busiest successful the federation — it serves arsenic a starring gateway for goods arriving from Asia and this twelvemonth has experienced record-setting cargo numbers.

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