Port Hires Director of Logistics and Business Development
Richard L. Grenville has been hired by the Tulsa Port of Catoosa as its new Director of Logistics and Business Development.
Originally from London, England, Grenville spent the last three years as a port security analyst for SRI International, a Stanford University-affiliated think tank. Prior to his work with SRI, he was manager of stevedoring and terminal operations for SSA Marine at the Port of Tampa. While in Tampa, Dick developed a vastly superior marine exchange database product that brought value added logistic services to all marine related stakeholders in the Tampa Bay area.
“We’ve needed someone with Dick Grenville’s expertise for quite a while,” said Tulsa Port of Catoosa Director Bob Portiss. “Dick brings a proven track record in the area of logistics, and therefore will fulfill an integral part of our plan to further develop the Port here into a regional transportation and logistics center.”
Prior to Grenville’s work in Tampa, he had also been a manager of SSA Marine’s operations in Jacksonville, Norfolk, and Savannah.
He can be reached at 918/266-2291 or richard@tulsaport.com.
Port Director Receives Medal from Army Corps of Engineers
Port Director Bob Portiss received an honor from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the 2009 McClellan-Kerr Navigation Conference in Muskogee, Oklahoma on August 28, 2009. Portiss was awarded the prestigious de Fleury Medal by the Corps.
From left: COL Anthony Funkhouser, USACE Tulsa District Engineer; Bob Portiss, Port Director, Tulsa Port of Catoosa; COL Donald Jackson, Jr., USACE Little Rock District Engineer.
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PentaCon, LLC Becomes Newest Port Plaza Business
PentaCon, LLC is set to open a new office at the Port Plaza in mid-September. PentaCon provides design-build, general contracting, construction management, property management and facilities maintenance services with contracting and project expertise throughout the lifecycle of a project. PentaCon is a services provider to public, institutional and corporate customers.
On the web at: www.pentacon-llc.com
New Firms Select Tulsa Port Of Catoosa
The number of companies doing business at the Port grew in 2008. Metalwest, a steel processor based in Brighton, Colorado, consolidated its Oklahoma City and Tulsa facilities and moved into a new 42,000-square-foot warehouse at the Port. The warehouse stocks carbon and stainless steel and aluminum flat-rolled products.
Also, Baker Hughes - Centrilift will soon open a facility at the Port. The company specializes in tools for the oil industry such as electrical submersible pumping systems.
“We’re pleased to have fine companies such as Metalwest and Baker Hughes - Centrilift at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa,” said Ed Fariss, Chairman of the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port Authority. “These are great additions to the Port and we are confident they’ll find this location and our services to be very beneficial to business growth.”
Find out more information about Metalwest at www.metalwest.com. Baker Hughes - Centrilift is on the web at www.bakerhughesdirect.com.
