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CSULB CITT "NEWSCAST"

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Channel: Beach TV CSULB · 2012 · Education

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The Center of International Trade and Transportation (CITT) at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), will hold its second Point/Counterpoint (P/CP) forum on Wednesday, March 28, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. The P/CP is CITT's signature event and encourages a dialogue on trade issues. It is an educational forum in which different perspectives on a pertinent issue of interest are presented. The objective is to understand fully the facts and various perspectives on the topic in an educational, neutral format and to allow the audience to further explore the topic through question and answer.
The title of this year's event is "The Future of Southern California Goods Movement: Will We Survive or Thrive in 2025?" and will focus on the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which are projected to more than double in growth of containerized goods by 2025 to 25 million 20-foot equivalent units. The question that will be addressed at the forum is "Are we ready or not ready to accommodate the projected growth?"
"In order to grow you have to expand," said Marianne Venieris, CITT Executive Director, "expand not only the infrastructure but the entire system that supports goods movement. The anticipated doubling in traffic by the year 2025 is based on forecasts. It is important to understand the impact of these numbers. We also need to be clear of the consequences of accommodating or not accommodating growth."
To set the stage, the forum will open with video presenting fictitious and extreme scenarios that provide two visions. One scenario is an overly positive view of goods movement in the year 2025, assuming all stakeholders cooperated extremely well in the political, legal, environmental, and logistical arenas. The other scenario gives an overly negative view assuming that things had gone badly in all the aforementioned arenas. The video has been produced by CSULB's Advanced Media Productions Center and CITT's Policy and Steering Committee.
"This year we wanted to look at what it means to loose discretionary cargo—goods that enter the country via the San Pedro Port complex but are consumed east of the Rocky Mountains," said Venieris. "We believe that it is important for our community to understand the pros and cons of "losing" this cargo. What will be the impact on the job market and on the environment?"

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