Our association membership of business and professionals has continued to grow and now exceeds 215. Our members include multinational corporations as well as many small business owners. PABI is a non-profit, non-governmental affiliated organization financed entirely by the investment of membership dues and is led by an all-volunteer board elected from the general membership. read more
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General Membership Luncheon/Meeting - Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - Woodland Plantation - 11:30 a.m. Networking, 12:00 p.m. Lunch & Program - Keynote Speaker: Senator A.G. Crowe, LA Senate District 1 - Senator Crowe will be speaking on the Louisiana International Gulf Transfer Terminal (LIGTT). The Louisiana International Gulf Transfer Terminal Authority was created by ACT 699 of the 2008 regular session of the Louisiana legislature. The 256-acre Louisiana International Gulf Transfer Terminal (LIGTT) port site is located in over 70 feet of water just east of the mouth of the Southwest Pass. It is Louisiana's primary outreach effort to the global marketplace to capture the anticipated increase in container carrying vessels coming through the widened Panama Canal after 2014. It will be the nation's first transfer terminal for container cargo (TEU's) strategically designed to serve container vessels too large to enter in to the Mississippi River thereby preserving market share and enhancing growth of the container market share for the Port of New Orleans. The LIGTT terminal will be the catalyst to encourage the European-Asian "container on barge" strategy throughout the interior of the United States serving ports in 33 states. A sixteen-member board of commissioners, who serve six-year terms, governs it. For more information and conceptual drawings/visuals please click on the following link: www.ligtt.com - Cost: $20.00 Member, $25.00 Nonmember - Please RSVP to Noelle at noelle@pabigroup.com or call the office at 504-393-2999.
General Membership Luncheon/Meeting - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - Bayou Barriere Golf Club - 11:30 a.m. Networking, 12:00 p.m. Lunch & Program - Keynote Speaker: Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser will give his Annual State of the Parish Address - Cost: $20.00 Member, $25.00 Nonmember - Please RSVP to Noelle at noelle@pabigroup.com or call the office at 504-393-2999.
25th Annual Governor's West Bank Luncheon - Monday, March 19, 2012 - Alario Center - 11:00 a.m. Doors Open, 11:30 a.m. Buffet Lunch - Keynote Speaker: Governor Bobby Jindal will speak on the critical issues facing the business community - Cost: $40.00 Individual, $320.00 Table of 8 - Reserved seating will be available only to those who purchase a table of eight. All other seating will be on a first come, first serve basis. Tickets will be available beginning Monday, February 27 from the office of State Representative Bryan Adams at 1801 Stumpf Blvd, Ste. 2A, Terrytown. Please fax the registration form in advance and mail the original with your check to P.O. Box 1387, Gretna. LA 70054 and indicate whether you will be picking up the tickets or if you want them mailed to you. Proceeds from the event will be donated to Cafe Hope, a non-profit project that works with at-risk youth of the West Bank. Cafe Hope is a fully functional restaurant operated on the Hope Haven Campus in Marrero in partnership with Catholic Charities. To apply for tickets please click here.
The Louisiana International Gulf Transfer Terminal will access 33 states via 14,500 miles of waterways for the purpose of transporting commerce. It will be the center of an International Supply Chain that will include a network of ports from Central and South America to the Gulf Region through the Midwest and on into Canada and from ports in Canada to Shanghai. For more information please visit the Louisiana International Gulf Deep Water Transfer Terminal website at www.gulftransterm.com.
October 2010 - Welcome to Our New Website!
Dear PABI Member,
On behalf of our Chairman, Bart Breland, the PABI Board of Directors, and the PABI Communications Committee, I would like to officially announce the launch of our new and improved WEBSITE! The new website is more user friendly and easier to navigate than its predecessor. We ask that all members view the website and provide us with your feedback. Please note that our quarterly newsletter is available on the website as well as the application for those businesses wishing to join PABI. Also, a list of all members can be found under the members tab. Please review your listing to make sure it is accurate. Let Executive Director, Bobby Thomas, know if any of your info needs to be changed.
I would like to thank Bobby Thomas, and Administrative Assistant, Noelle Williams, for doing the leg work to make this new website possible. Also, I want to thank DP1 DESIGN for designing the website and working with the Communications Committee on changes we requested.
Thank you!
Reid McLellan
Communications Committee Chairman
PABI