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Port of Galveston names new director
Published 9:00 am, Tuesday, December 12, 2017
The Port of Galveston is tapping an executive from the country's second-busiest cruise port as its next director.
Rodger Rees, the deputy executive director and chief financial officer at Port Canaveral in Florida, will take Galveston's top position in January. The Board of Trustees of the Galveston Wharves voted unanimously to hire him on Monday, and they approved a salary of $240,000 and up to $20,000 for moving expenses, said chairman Ted O'Rourke.
Rees is replacing Michael Mierzwa, who retired at the end of 2016. Peter Simons has been serving as the interim port director. O'Rourke said Simons did not apply for the full-time position but will help Rees with the transition.
MORE: Galveston is the fastest-growing U.S. cruise terminal
The Port of Galveston is the country's fourth-busiest cruise terminal and the fastest-growing cruise port in the United States, according to the Cruise Lines International Association's 2016 U.S. Economic Impact Analysis.
Port Canaveral is the second-busiest cruise terminal in the U.S. It had 2.1 million passenger embarkations in 2016 compared with 869,000 from Galveston, according to the report.
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