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Webinar: June 27th Mexico's Infrastructure Opportunities

U. S. Commercial Service Brings you:

Event: Mexico’s Infrastructure Opportunities 2013-2018
Venue: Your Computer
Dates: June 27, 2013
Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Cost: $40 per company
Learn more: http://export.gov/mexico/tradeevents/eg_mx_058422.asp
Register: https://emenuapps.ita.doc.gov/ePublic/newWebinarRegistration.jsp?SmartCode=3Q63

If you are a U.S. company offering competitive infrastructure-related products and services…mark your calendar! The June 27 webinar is the first of a series of webinars to help U.S. companies gain insights into Mexican public infrastructure planning, learn about the public tender process and discuss best practices for prime contractors and sub-contractors with an experienced U.S. firm and key contacts of the U.S. Commercial Service Office in Mexico. Business opportunities abound in promising sectors such as oil, gas, electricity, and renewable energy; construction, engineering and transportation; new environmental technologies; and information and telecommunication technologies. For more information contact: adrian.orta@trade.gov. Invited Guests: Dorothy Lutter, Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs, U.S. Commercial Service; Adolfo Luviano, International Affairs Vice Director, Mexican Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT); Carlo F. Orsenigo, Country Manager, CH2M HILL. Host: Diego Gatessco Senior Trade Specialist & Trade Americas Team Leader, U.S. Department of Commerce

Fact Friday: A little bit of History

Fact Friday:  A little bit of History from the Journal of Commerce

It was early October 1830, and the young man climbing onto the anchored ship was a reporter for The Journal of Commerce. He was after the latest news from the Continent and the vessel’s cargo manifests. If he could get them back into port before any other reporter could reach the French ship, his paper would have another exclusive on the latest news from Europe.

And the New York businessmen who would be eagerly reading the paper would get an early look at the kind of cargo the ship would be bringing in for auction to the highest bidders on the waterfront.

The schooner that pulled alongside the French vessel, inbound from Le Havre, was called the Evening Edition, the newest of two so-called news boats owned by the newspaper. Their shallow draft and speed enabled them to skim over the shoals that ringed the harbor and easily beat the rowboats maintained by rival newspapers back into Lower Manhattan.

When the Evening Edition slid into its berth near the foot of Manhattan that afternoon, the reporter raced up the gangplank and back to his paper’s editorial offices at 91 Wall Street, just off Water Street.

The story he had scribbled on his notepad would give New Yorkers their first news of the astounding coup in France. King Charles X had abdicated in the wake of street riots in Paris that marked the Revolution of 1830. The story reported that Louis-Phillippe, the “citizen king,” had assumed the throne.

The “scoop” published by The Journal of Commerce in its special “extra” edition that day in 1830 was one of many the paper gained through its fleet of news boats. The boats characterized the paper’s commitment to being the fastest and most accurate of New York’s many papers. Over the coming years, the JoC would adapt its methods of news-gathering to the continuing revolutions in technology that would transform the way papers gathered the news.

Willingness to embrace change has enabled The Journal of Commerce, which is 175 years old this year, to survive while countless other publications have failed. Change is the very nature of the world The Journal of Commerce has covered since the day it was born on Sept. 1, 1827.

Over the years The Journal of Commerce has been a respected voice on subjects as diverse as banking, commodities, insurance, energy and transportation. Today the emphasis of the weekly Journal of Commerce newsmagazine and its breaking-news website, The Journal of Commerce Online, is on international trade, transportation and logistics — subjects that descend directly from the paper’s coverage early in its history.

International trade has been at the heart of the JoC’s coverage since the publication was launched by a group of upright New York businessmen as part of a war on sin. In fact, it was the unbending religious convictions of its founders that steered the paper into becoming the young nation’s leading maritime and business journal.

— in New York, NY.

Governor's Small Business Forum -- May 30th

Governor’s Small Business Forum: Business Without Borders Marketing in Today’s World, May 30, Galveston, TX. Learn the latest techniques for internet marketing, discover U.S. and state incentives for exporting and how to finance international transactions. Cost: $25. Register: www.gcsbdc.com .

OWIT Houston Networking Event -- Happy Hour

OWIT HOUSTON NETWORKING EVENT Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Join us at Happy Hour for networking and fun! Not a member? Come meet our OWIT members and find out what OWIT Houston is about. Already a member? Come out to reconnect with your OWIT contact and meet our newest members. For more details and to register for the OWIT Networking Event you can click HERE.   ·         Date:  Wednesday, May 29, 2013   ·         Location:   El Real Tex-Mex Cafe                       1201 Westheimer Rd.                       Houston, TX 77006 ·         Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00PM Cost:  Members: $5.00; Guests $10.00 Make sure to register for your OWIT Houston wristband! Questions or Comments? Please email owithouston@live.com

Fact Friday: Truck /private vehicle accidents

 

In a recent study by the American Trucking Association, they found that smaller vehicles are responsible for most car/truck accidents in the country.  In fact,  the survey revealed that 81% of accidents were the fault of smaller vehicles, and truck drivers were at fault only 27% of the time.

Fact Friday: The Port of Houston

 

Fact Friday:

The Port of Houston Authority

The Port of Houston is a 25-mile-long complex of diversified public and private facilities located just a few hours' sailing time from the Gulf of Mexico. The port is ranked first in the United States in foreign waterborne tonnage (14 consecutive years); first in U.S. imports (20 consecutive years); second in U.S. export tonnage and second in the U.S. in total tonnage (20 consecutive years)