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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.