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New leadership for Port of Alaska A nchorage Mayor LaFrance has announced that Terry Umatum will be the new Port Director
of the Don Young Port of Alaska. A veteran of the United States Navy, Umatum is a logistics professional, most recently serving as the Alaska Manager for Estes Express Line, the largest pri- vately owned LTL trucking company in North America. Umatum has 23 years of logistical experience working for freight forwarders utilizing the Don Young Port of Alaska. “Mr. Umatum’s professional experi- ence managing teams, budgets, logis- tics, and operations to successfully move goods to every corner of Alaska makes him a great fit to keep things flowing smoothly at the Port,” said Mayor LaFrance. Matson to introduce enhanced Intermodal Cargo Security Program I n response to the rise of theft from intermodal cargo industrywide, Matson has announced that it has partnered with BNSF Railway and War-Lok to introduce a new, enhanced cargo security program that will add two layers of protection to the majority of its international intermodal cargo at no cost to its customers, beginning in the second quarter of 2026. Matson will deploy War–Lok secur- ity devices on every international con- tainer moving from Los Angeles to all BNSF network destinations includ- ing Chicago, Memphis, and Dallas, delivering the first new layer of cargo protection. Matson operates the two leading expedited services in the Transpacific trade lane. Its China-Long Beach Express and Matson Asia Express services each provide weekly departures with industry leading ocean transit times from China and key Southeast Asia origins.
Terry Umatum, new Director for the Don Young Port of Alaska recently visited Juneau with Mayor Suzanne LaFrance (right) to talk to legislators about the Don Young Port of Alaska Modernization project.
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