Welcome and Opening Presentations

摘要

At the opening plenary session Malcolm MacKinnon III, chair of the workshop planning committee, welcomed all participants and introduced other committee members. He reviewed the events leading up to the workshop and explained that a previous SupSalv-initiated study had examined similar issues with regard to the Ports of New Orleans and Houston. Results of that work and further questions about the vulnerability of U.S. West Coast ports led to the planning for this workshop focusing on the Ports of LA/LB.rnThe chair reviewed the agenda for the workshop and introduced the keynote speaker, Stephen Flynn, who would call attention to the nature of the threat to the LA/LB port complex and the need for an adequate and effective response to be prepared.