{"id":155,"date":"2018-04-03T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2018\/04\/03\/state-officials-to-open-greenport-congress-america\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:44:00","slug":"state-officials-to-open-greenport-congress-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/gpca\/state-officials-to-open-greenport-congress-america\/","title":{"rendered":"State officials to open GreenPort Congress America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ensure your company is in attendance to hear from leading government legislators from one of North America\u2019s environmentally conscious states, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boyd K. Rutherford, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, who will provide the welcome address on behalf of the State of Maryland<\/li>\n<li>Ben H. Grumbles, Secretary of the Maryland Department of the Environment, will speak on the State of Maryland\u2019s progress as a leader developing partnerships and improvements in environmental performance<\/li>\n<li>R. Earl Lewis, Deputy Secretary for Policy, Planning &amp; Enterprise Services, Maryland Department of Transportation, will provide the opening conference remarks<\/li>\n<li>Pete K. Rahn, Secretary of Maryland Department of Transportation, will join the conference on 17th May and will explain how Maryland is creating an effective balance of environmental initiatives and commerce<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The support of these high-level state players will set the tone for the calibre of speakers and the prestige of GreenPort Congress America. To ensure you are attending alongside these key state legislators, port authorities and world leaders in green ports, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenport.com\/congressamerica\/e-commerce\/greenport-congress\">booking page<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>To view the rest of the speakers attending the congress and associated networking events you will be able to attend, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenport.com\/congressamerica\/greenport-cruise\/conference-programme\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To find out more information about GreenPort Congress America visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenport.com\/congressamerica\">http:\/\/www.greenport.com\/congressamerica<\/a> or call +44 1329 825335. <br \/>Follow the event on twitter: @GPCongress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Maryland state officials including Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, Boyd K. Rutherford to speak during the opening session of the inaugural GreenPort Congress America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gpca"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}