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CITT Town Hall 2025 Calls for Port Town Resilience

Monday, September 29, 2025

From left to right: Dr. Noel Hacegaba, Commissioner Bonnie Lowenthal, Robert Loya, Sal DiCostanzo, and Dr. Tom O'Brien. This year’s CITT State of the Trade and Transportation Industry Town Hall celebrated the legacy of resilience in our Port Town communities. Town Hall attendees ranged from supply chain and transportation industry veterans to community stakeholders to students—each in their own way reflecting on the importance of global trade to our community. After ...

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USC ITE and METRANS Kick Off Fall Speaker Series with Leaders from Port of Long Beach and Metro

Monday, September 15, 2025

On Tuesday, September 9, 2025, USC ITE and METRANS co-hosted the semester’s first speaker series event featuring Dr. Noel Hacebaga, Chief Operating Officer of the Port of Long Beach, and Michael Cano, Interim Senior Executive Officer of Multimodal Integrated Planning at LA Metro. Together, they represented two different perspectives of Southern California’s goods movement industry. METRANS director, Professor Marlon Boarnet, moderated the discussion. Dr. Hacebaga ...