Eric Green

JAXPORT positioned ‘for great things to come’

Last year JAXPORT CEO Eric Green delivered his State of the Port 2020 address to a crowd of more than 450 over lunch in a Jacksonville, Florida, hotel ballroom. 

The world has changed, but the Jacksonville Port Authority chief executive officer still delivered an optimistic forecast for 2021 in an across-the-table conversation with Jamie Shelton, the JAXPORT board chairman, on Tuesday.

“We continue to see container growth in the Puerto Rico market as well as an uptick and a rebound on the Asian...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/jaxport-positioned-for-great-things-to-come

Career Tracks: Former Mack president joins startup TrovaCV

Denny Slagle, who retired as executive vice president of Volvo Group and president of Mack Trucks in 2018, has joined electric vehicle startup Trova Commercial Vehicles as senior adviser.

TrovaCV was launched this summer to provide commercial vehicle manufacturers with customized engineering, design and manufacturing expertise while at the same time developing its own electric vehicle from the ground up.

Denny Slagle joins TrovaCV as senior adviser.

TrovaCV founder and CEO Patrick Collignon,...

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JAXPORT Board extends CEO Green’s contract

During the December meeting of the JAXPORT Board of Directors, the Board voted unanimously to extend CEO Eric Green’s contract through fiscal year 2024. The new five-year contract is effective Oct. 1, 2019.

Green has been with JAXPORT since 2005 and was named CEO in 2017. Under Green’s leadership, the port set new container, auto and overall cargo volume records.

With Green at the helm, JAXPORT has continued to secure funding for the federal project to deepen the Jacksonville shipping channel to...

https://container-news.com/jaxport-board-extends-ceo-green-contract/