{"id":641,"date":"2016-11-15T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/11\/15\/maritime-person-of-the-year-a-texan\/"},"modified":"2016-11-15T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T22:26:00","slug":"maritime-person-of-the-year-a-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/maritime-person-of-the-year-a-texan\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime Person of the year- A Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Maritime Person of the Year is Janiece Longoria, Chair of the Port of Houston Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Longoria&#8217;s background:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2013 unanimously appointed as Chairman by the City of Houston &amp;\u00a0Harris County<\/li>\n<li>2002 began serving\u00a0on the Port Commission\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1979<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under Longoria&#8217;s leadership the Port of Houston has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>record high loaded container units, exceeding 2 million<\/li>\n<li>increased revenue<\/li>\n<li>improved its infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>improved the ship channel with dredging\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20161110006675\/en\/Janiece-Longoria-Named-2017-Maritime-Person-Year\">Business Wire |\u00a0<strong>Janiece Longoria Named 2017 Maritime Person of the Year<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Maritime Person of the Year is Janiece Longoria, Chair of the Port of Houston Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Longoria&#8217;s background:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2013 unanimously appointed as Chairman by the City of Houston &amp;\u00a0Harris County<\/li>\n<li>2002 began serving\u00a0on the Port Commission\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1979<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under Longoria&#8217;s leadership the Port of Houston has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>record high loaded container units, exceeding 2 million<\/li>\n<li>increased revenue<\/li>\n<li>improved its infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>improved the ship channel with&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}