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A monthly partnership publication of
the Louisiana Department of Economic Development
the New Orleans U.S. Export Assistance Center
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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SAUDI ARABIAN
AMBASSADOR TO SPEAK AT WTC ON JULY 12
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JULY 11 FORUM
ON HURRICANE PROTECTION AND SHIPPING
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ALLIANCE
FRANCAISE CELEBRATES BASTILLE DAY JULY 11
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JULY 19
LUNCHEON PROGRAM WITH COLOMBIAN EXECUTIVES
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HURRICANE
SUMMIT AT EAST JEFFERSON LIBRARY ON JULY 21
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JULY 25
BREAKFAST ON FUTURE OF NEW ORLEANS AIR SERVICE
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WORLD
AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF NEW ORLEANS EVENTS
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NATIONAL EXPORT COUNCIL CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS
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SOURCING FAIR IN
SHANGHAI
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JERRY
HINGLE NAMED SUSTA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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TWO POSITIONS OPEN AT
SUSTA
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NEW ORLEANS AIRPORT NEWS
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PORT’S FTZ WILL ACCOMMODATE ABBOTT EXPORT PLANS
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NEW BOOK ABOUT
ACADIAN HISTORY
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
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| His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal, the Ambassador of the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia to the United States, will tour New Orleans on July 12 and
13. On Wednesday, July 12 the World Trade Center will host Prince Turki at a
special luncheon at 11:45 a.m. in the Plimsoll Club, bringing together
high-level governmental, trade and business leaders to discuss Saudi-U.S.
relations and the Kingdom’s humanitarian aid efforts around the world.
The youngest son of King Faisal, Prince Turki served as the Director
General of the General Intelligence Directorate, the Kingdom's foreign
intelligence service, from 1977 to 2001. Prince Turki was appointed
Ambassador to the United States in July 2005, having previously served as
Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Following his luncheon
remarks, former U.S. Ambassador to Dubai Charles Baquet, a native New
Orleanian now at Xavier University, will moderate a dialogue with the
Ambassador, featuring questions from the participants.
To register for the July 12 luncheon program, call the WTC at (504)
529-1601, ext. 222, or click
here.
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| On Tuesday, July 11 the Propeller Club of New Orleans is sponsoring a
forum on “Hurricane Protection and Its Impact on Shipping in Southeast
Louisiana” from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the Port of New Orleans
Administration Building’s first floor auditorium. Presenters include: the
Army Corps of Engineers; Bring Back New Orleans Commission; Louisiana
Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority; and St. Bernard Parish. The
Corps will present its plan first, and each of the other presenters will
follow with how their plan differs from that of the Corps. All presenters
are asked to emphasize the navigation/shipping impact of their plan. After
each plan is given, the presenter will hear comments and answer questions
from a panel of industry representatives. There will be time at the end of
the program for questions from the audience. The Forum moderator will be
Channing Hayden. Light refreshments will be served, and parking is available
at the Port’s Administration Building. The event is free and open to the
public.
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| On Tuesday, July 11 the Alliance Française de La Nouvelle-Orléans will
present Le Cabaret de l'Alliance from 7:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. at the
Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel located at 817 Common Street in New
Orleans. The event will celebrate Bastille Day with live cabaret music and
summer dishes from the best restaurants in town including: Café Degas, La
Côte Brasserie, Chateau du Lac, Maurice French Pastries, La Louisiane
Bakery, Rene Bistro, and Chef Daniel Bonnot. Live music will be performed by
famed New Orleans cabaret singer Anais St. John and guitarist Jean-Louis
Lavergne. The cost is $25 for Alliance Francaise members and $35 for future
Alliance Française members. There will be a cash bar and special event
parking at the Renaissance Pere Marquette for $8. Reservations must be made
in advance by calling the Alliance Française at (504) 568-0770.
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| On Wednesday, July 19 the World Trade Center of New Orleans, the A.B.
Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, Whitney Bank, Fed Ex, and
other organizations will sponsor a luncheon program at the WTC’s Plimsoll
Club from 12:00 noon until 1:30 p.m. on “Doing Business in Colombia” with a
group of 61 business executives from the Cali region who will be in
attendance at the luncheon.
The executives are in New Orleans for a two-week seminar on International
Business Leadership at Tulane. They are part of a collaboration of the A. B.
Freeman School of Business with the Universidad ICESI. Freeman faculty teach
part of the MBA program at ICESI and the students come to New Orleans for a
two-week seminar in the summer.
The executives represent several major industries in Colombia, including:
graphic arts; education; hospitals/ medical suppliers; pharmaceuticals;
finance; logistics; and agriculture/food production. A representative from
each of the key business sectors will give a brief presentation at the
luncheon program.
For additional information or to register for the July 19 luncheon, call
the World Trade Center at (504) 529-1601, ext. 222 (details to be posted
shortly).
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| The New Orleans Regional Planning Commission and other organizations
will sponsor a Hurricane Summit from 8:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. on Friday,
July 21 at the East Jefferson Regional Library located at 4747 W Napoleon
Avenue in Metairie (near the intersection of I-10 and Clearview). The summit
will focus on assisting businesses with pre- and post-storm planning and
recovery. Topics will include: the Ready Business Mentoring Guide (just
published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security); lessons learned from
Hurricane Katrina by businesses that had successful recoveries; and other
important issues that will assist businesses in the continuity of their
operations. There is no cost to attend the summit. For additional
information, contact Chris Laborde at the Regional Planning Commission at
claborde@norpc.org.
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| The French-American Chamber of Commerce, Louisiana Chapter will hold its
second breakfast briefing of 2006 at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 25 in the
Plimsoll Club of the World Trade Center on “The Future of Air Service in the
Metropolitan Region.” The featured speakers are: John Miller, Gulf Direct
Airways Manager; Sean Hunter, Interim Director of Aviation for Louis
Armstrong International Airport; and Carol Lowe, Deputy Director of
Commercial Management for the Airport. They will cover the following topics:
current and planned commercial operations and capacity; participation in the
Gulf Region and the Gulf Opportunity Zone; and the launching of a new
airline serving Louis Armstrong International Airport. To register for the
July 25 breakfast, contact the French-American Chamber at
info@faccla.com or at (504) 561-0070.
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| July 12 - Great Decisions: Dealing with Iran, 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the
Urban Cup Cafe, 4861 Magazine Street in New Orleans (www.urbancupcafe.com).
The facilitator will be Dr. Mark Gasiorowski, Department of Political
Science, Louisiana State University.
August 3 - 1st Thursday PubNite: 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Wyndham Hotel at
Canal Place, 100 Rue Iberville.
August 9 - Great Decisions: Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism,
7:00-9:00 p.m. at the Urban Cup Cafe, 4861 Magazine Street
(www.urbancupcafe.com).
The facilitator will be William E. Rittenberg, attorney-at-law.
For additional information on these events, visit the World Affairs
Council website at
www.wacno.org or call (504) 523-2201.
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| Celebrating rejuvenated New Orleans and the role of international trade,
the Louisiana District Export Council (DEC) and the U.S. Commercial Service
will host “Adversity and the Benefits of International Trade,” the National
District Export Council Conference, in New Orleans at the InterContinental
Hotel on October 30 - November 1.
The 2006 NDEC Conference is an ideal forum for international business
networking and trade education. The conference will address relevant and
timely topics -- overcoming trade challenges; government services; due
diligence; tax issues; trade marketing; and finance and logistics. Speakers,
panelists, and exhibitors will include exporters such as the Shaw Group,
local, state and federal government officials including the State of
Louisiana and the Federal Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee agencies,
trade service providers, trade financers, and trade group representatives.
Each of the presentations and breakouts will be highly interactive and
informative.
The registration fee for the DEC conference is $325 and registration,
sponsorship opportunities, and hotel information are available at
www.decconference.com
or call the U.S. Export Assistance Center in New Orleans at (504) 589-6703.
Some of the prestigious sponsors for the conference include JP Morgan
Chase, PNC Bank, Comerica Bank, Louisiana Economic Development, Louisiana
Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Capital One N.A., Le Centre
International, Mississippi Development Authority, Port of New Orleans, Port
of South Louisiana, Schaffer & Associates Intermantional, L.L.C., Stuller,
Inc., The Shaw Group, Whitney National Bank, Alabama, International Trade
Center/The University of Alabama and Edward K. Dwyer, CPA. Cooperating DECs
include Alabama, Arkansas, Houston, Maryland-Washington, D.C., Mississippi,
North Carolina, North Louisiana, North Texas, San Diego, Texas Camino Real,
Virginia-Washington, D.C., and West Texas.
The District Export Councils (DECs) are organizations of leaders from the
local business community, appointed by successive Secretaries of Commerce,
whose knowledge of international business provides a source of professional
advice for local firms.
For more than 25 years, DECs have served the United States by assisting
companies in their local communities to export, thus promoting the U.S.`s
economic growth and creating new and higher-paying jobs for their
communities. DEC members volunteer their time to sponsor and participate in
numerous trade promotion activities, as well as to supply specialized
expertise to small and medium-size businesses that are interested in
exporting. The DECs advocate for U.S. exporters and speak out on national
trade policy issues through a variety of means, including the issuance of
trade policy recommendations at this annual national conference.
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| Shanghai’s International Sourcing Fair (www.2006.sourcing.org.ch)
invites Louisiana companies to attend this year’s event, to be held on
September 26-28. Since 2002, some 300 international buyers have had booths
at the Fair each year, with over 20,000 qualified Chinese suppliers
participating. More than 200 multinational corporations have established
purchasing offices in Shanghai, and the procurement volume was estimated at
$US 60 billion in 2005. The Fair is an outstanding event to meet Chinese
suppliers from all parts of the country and also a convenient way to
initially enter the Chinese procurement market and source the products you
need. For additional information about this year’s Fair, contact Ms. Cindy
Tang via e-mail at
cindytang2020@yahoo.com.cn.
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| Jerry Hingle has been appointed as the Executive Director of the
Southern United States Trade Association (SUSTA), an agricultural export
trade development association comprised of the Departments of Agriculture of
15 Southern states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Mr. Hingle directs
the association's $10 million international marketing program across Europe,
Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. SUSTA is headquartered in New
Orleans at the World Trade Center and has a staff of seven.
Mr. Hingle joined SUSTA after working 10 years with Southern Forest
Products Association, a trade association representing the U.S. lumber
industry. He directed the industry's $1 million international marketing and
trade policy program in 22 countries. He was also an appointee to the U.S.
Commerce Department's Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Forest Products,
where he advised U.S. government trade policy negotiators on trade-related
issues affecting the industry.
Prior to working at SFPA Mr. Hingle worked with the American Forest &
Paper Association in Washington, D.C., where he managed international
marketing and research programs for wood products in Taiwan, Korea, China,
Mexico, and the European Union. Before his AF&PA position, he was account
manager of public relations and research for A&MV Public Relations
International in Brussels, Belgium, where he conducted market potential
studies for U.S. agricultural products in Europe.
Mr. Hingle is a native of New Orleans, where he graduated from Loyola
University in 1990 with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration,
majoring in marketing. Two years later, he earned his MBA from the European
University in Brussels, Belgium, specializing in international management.
He is fluent in French. He can be reached at SUSTA at (504) 568-5986 or via
e-mail at jerry@susta.org
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| The Southern U.S. Trade Association (SUSTA), a non-profit trade
association promoting U.S. agricultural exports worldwide, is looking for a
full-time Generic Program Coordinator and a part-time Marketing Assistant.
The Generic Program Coordinator should possess knowledge of international
trade, the ability to organize and carry out market promotions, organize
seminars, meetings and conduct trade visits, as well as have considerable
ability to prepare oral and written reports in a professional manner. The
position requires completion of a B.A., plus three years’ appropriate work
experience or the equivalent in the areas of international marketing,
international trade, or a related field.
The Marketing Assistant will be a part-time paid internship for a
graduate or undergraduate student aspiring to work in international trade.
The Marketing Assistant’s duties will include coordinating education and
outreach activities, writing and editing copy for press releases, print
publications and the Web, and maintenance of SUSTA’s public website.
Detailed descriptions for both of these positions may be found online at
www.susta.org/about/employment.html.
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| Sean Hunter, the Deputy Director for Operations at Louis Armstrong New
Orleans International Airport, has been named Interim Director of Aviation
following the departure of Roy Williams, who is now the Director of the Salt
Lake City Airports. A national search is being conducted to fill the
position permanently. In June daily airport departures reached 107, or 64
percent of the 166 flights per day prior to Hurricane Katrina. Those flights
go to 34 cities, compared with 42 destinations before the storm. There are
about 12,300 airline seats serving the market, or about 60 percent of the
pre-Katrina level. Southwest Airlines added six daily non-stop flights in
June, making it once again the largest airline operating from the airport.
On June 3 a weekly non-stop flight every Saturday commenced from New Orleans
to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The service is scheduled to continue through
August 5.
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| The Port of New Orleans on June 22 approved a change in its Foreign
Trade Zone (FTZ) regulations to accommodate new business for Abbott, a
broad-based healthcare company. Abbott currently only exports goods from its
facility in Harahan, Louisiana, but plans to import products from
international Abbott facilities and consolidate them with U.S.-made
products. The products will then be packaged and shipped to Latin American
markets.
The Port worked quickly with the U.S. Foreign Trade Zones Board to help
accommodate Abbott, requesting a boundary modification on May 18 and having
it approved May 31. “We received a tremendous response from the Foreign
Trade Zones Board and were granted permission in very short order,” Port
President Gary LaGrange said. “This agreement will help grow business at
Abbott and at the Port’s docks.”
Foreign Trade Zones are economically beneficial to firms because foreign
goods can be imported and exported from a domestic facility duty-free. The
Port of New Orleans FTZ was modified to delete two acres from the Port’s
Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal Complex and adding the same size parcel
to Abbott’s facility on Distributors Row.
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| Acadian Redemption, by Warren Perrin of Erath, Louisiana, is the first
biography of an Acadian exile and defines the 18th-century society of
Acadia. The book outlines Joseph Beausoleil Broussard’s early life, militant
struggles with the British, and the epic odyssey during which Beausoleil led
a group of 193 Acadians from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, the “New Acadia,”
with the hope that his beloved culture would survive. Perrin is an
eighth-generation descendant of Beausoleil and serves as the President of
CODOFIL, an organization dedicated to the development and preservation of
the French language in Louisiana. All proceeds from the sale of the book
support the Acadian Museum in Erath that was flooded during Hurricane Rita.
The cost of the book is $20 plus $4 for shipping. the book can be ordered by
calling (337) 937-5468 or (337) 233-5832 or via e-mail at
perrin@plddo.com. The Museum’s website
is
www.acadianmuseum.com
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| Giacona Container Co., a creative packaging specialist since 1923, is
seeking a Bookkeeper. Position is responsible for managing the general
accounting function and inventory control. Microsoft Dynamics/Great Plains
experience a positive. Please contact
mrg@giacona.com or call (504) 835-5465, ext. 223.
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New Orleans U.S. Export Assistance Center
World Trade Center of New Orleans
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