Long Beach Port - Mario Cordero

Long Beach environmental attorney Mario Cordero is resigning from the Federal Maritime Commission to become executive director at the Port of Long Beach.

Cordero served as a Harbor Commissioner for eight years, beginning in 2003. He was appointed to the Maritime Commission by then-President Barack Obama in 2011. He was in his second term there, which went to 2019, but President Donald Trump removed Cordero as chairman in favor of Commissioner Michael Khouri, a Republican.

http://www.gazettes.com/news/mario-cordero-to-be-next-executive-director-at-port-of/article_8fb90480-2097-11e7-bdbd-33bff7b12da0.html

He relaxed shipping container rules.

His work on critical issues such as congestion in and around our ports, container weight rules, and the bankruptcy of shipping line Hanjin, has promoted a better and more efficient maritime industry that benefits all Americans. ..

We have seen that Kate Spade Company cargo (declared ) did not match the weights.

What was being shipped in the containers ?

And this =>

Approval for the OCEAN Alliance

The OCEAN Alliance members include COSCO Shipping, CMA CGM, Evergreen Marine and Orient Overseas Container Line Limited (OOCL).

The FMC said the members of the alliance are now permitted to share vessels; charter and exchange space on one other’s ships; and enter into cooperative working arrangements in international trade lanes between the United States and ports in Asia, Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. The FMC does not regulate services that do not call the United States, but the Ocean Alliance is planning to serve the Asia-North Europe, Asia-Mediterranean, Asia-Middle East and Asia-Red Sea trades.

http://actlogisticsinc.com/news-and-events/fmc-approves-ocean-alliance/

Maybe something there?