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The 28th Annual World Conference of the International Association of Ports and Harbors is coming to Los Angeles May 6-10, at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE.   The biennial World Ports Conference is attended by 400-500 high-level officials from IAPH’s member base of nearly 200 ports and port organizations spanning 90 countries. IAPH member ports handle more than 60 percent of the world's sea-borne trade and nearly 80 percent of the world’s containerized cargo.

It’s been years in the making, but the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to approve a plan to rebuild and expand a runway at Los Angeles International Airport. The $4.76 billion project is intended to upgrade the airport’s layout to accommodate larger aircraft like the Airbus A380.

The Council voted 10-3 to move forward on the proposal to demolish the North Runway at LAX and rebuild it 260 feet further north despite intense opposition from residents.

The LAEDC has launched a Cleantech Portal - an online site dedicated to everything "clean technology". The LAEDC Cleantech Cluster Project is one of the nation's first efforts to examine the current and potential future state of clean technology in a local economy.