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Ampco System Parking Awarded Contract with The Port of Galveston, Texas.


LOS ANGELES -- Ampco System Parking, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock.

Notes:
In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners.
 of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:ABM), has been awarded a multiyear contract with The Port of Galveston The Port of Galveston is the port of the city of Galveston, Texas. It was established by a proclamation issued by the Congress of Mexico on October 17, 1825, while the land known today as Texas was still part of Mexico. , Texas. The contract covers parking operations and shuttle service management as well as security services for the Port's parking facilities.

"As the Port of Galveston continues to serve as an economic catalyst to the City of Galveston and the region, Ampco is pleased to provide parking management and shuttle operations for the passengers that cruise from the Port each year," said Rich Kindorf, president of Ampco System Parking. "We look forward to providing state-of-the-art technology and quality customer service for Galveston's important cruise industry," he added.

"The Port of Galveston is pleased to team with Ampco System Parking to provide important transportation and security services for our cruise passengers," stated Galveston Port Director, Steven M. Cernak. "Cruise passengers accounted for over 600,000 Galveston visitors last year and are a very important part of the tourist industry in Galveston."

The Port of Galveston is the Western Gulf of Mexico's gateway for international cruise vacations. In 2006, the Port of Galveston ranked as the #1 cruise ship port in Texas and in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico
Golfo de Mexico

Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east
, the 4th busiest U.S. cruise port in world rankings and the 11th overall in the top-twenty cruise ports in the world. The Port is the year-round "home port" to two Carnival Cruise Lines This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article.  ships, and one Royal Caribbean International Royal Caribbean International (OSE: RCL NYSE: RCL) is a Norwegian-American cruise ship company based in Miami, Florida. It is a brand of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., with 21 ships in service and one more under construction. All the ships have names ending in "of the Seas.  ship, and seasonal cruise operations by Royal Caribbean International and Princess Cruises, offering approximately 255 cruises annually.

Ampco System Parking is an industry leader, operating more than 1,600 lots and garages in 30 states, including parking facilities at or adjacent to such major international airports as Austin, Buffalo, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Honolulu, Omaha, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Jose and Seattle.

ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM) is among the largest facility services contractors listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City.
. With fiscal 2006 revenues in excess of $2.7 billion and more than 75,000 employees, ABM provides janitorial, parking, security, engineering and lighting services for thousands of commercial, industrial, institutional and retail facilities in hundreds of cities across the United States and British Columbia, Canada. The ABM Family of Services includes ABM Janitorial; Ampco System Parking; ABM Security Services, which includes American Commercial Security Services (ACSS) and Security Services of America (SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. ); ABM Facility Services; ABM Engineering; and Amtech Lighting Services.
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