Businessman John Loh Re-Elected President of Oakland's Port Commission.OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 1999-- Community leader and businessman John P. Loh has been elected to serve his second consecutive year as president of the Board of Port Commissioners. Board commissioners are appointed to 4-year terms and receive no financial compensation. An Oakland resident for more than 20 years, Loh is a principal of LOH Realty & Investments, an Oakland-based full-service real estate company. "I am very honored to have been selected by my colleagues to serve a second term," he said. "The Port is at a crucial juncture in its history. We are experiencing tremendous expansion. The expansion is vitally important to the economy of both the City of Oakland and the entire Bay Area. We must keep the Port moving forward." Loh also has been a principal in an international moving company and freight consolidation service. He also held principal positions at a freight forwarding company and port/customers brokerage business. Loh was appointed to the Port Commission in July 1992. His extensive understanding of Asian markets and trade has enabled him to be a knowledgeable marketer for the Port of Oakland The Port of Oakland was the first major port on the Pacific Coast of the United States to build terminals for container ships. It is now the fourth busiest container port in the United States; behind Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Newark. . Loh was also employed by Pan Am and American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the . He holds a teacher's license in airline transportation from the state of Hawaii Department of Education. The International Institute of the East Bay awarded Loh the Outstanding Immigrant Award in 1985. Over the last 20 years, Loh has actively engaged in many community and civic activities. He has been a Director of the Marcus Foster Marcus A. Foster (1923 – 1973) was a charismatic and highly esteemed African-American educator who gained a national reputation for educational excellence while serving as principal of Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as Associate Superintendent of Educational Institute and is currently serving on the Oakland Museum of California's California Council. Stepping out of his role as a businessman, Loh spearheaded Operation Home Front in Oakland during Operation Desert Storm Noun 1. Operation Desert Storm - the United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted 100 hours (1991) Gulf War, Persian Gulf War - a war fought between Iraq and a coalition led by the United States that freed Kuwait from Iraqi invaders; . This program provided support to children and parents who were left at home during the war. He also organized the Welcome Home Troops Parade to celebrate the return of military personnel to Oakland. "I'm not a proponent of war, but I appreciate the people who put their lives on the line for the rest of us (abuse) for The Rest Of Us - (From the Macintosh slogan "The computer for the rest of us") 1. Used to describe a spiffy product whose affordability shames other comparable products, or (more often) used sarcastically to describe spiffy but very overpriced products. 2. ," Loh commented. Loh is a native of Shanghai, China, where his family owned and operated a shipping and stevedoring business. The Port of Oakland, established in 1927, is an independent department of the City of Oakland employing some 560 people. The Port extends approximately 19 miles along the east side of the Oakland Estuary The Oakland Estuary is the body of water separating the cities of Oakland and Alameda, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. On its western end it connects to San Francisco Bay, while its eastern end connects to San Leandro Bay. from the border of the City of Emeryville immediately north of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, double-decked structure, W Calif.; built 1933–36. It has a total length of 8.25 mi (13.2 km). From San Francisco it crosses the bay to Yerba Buena Island, where a tunnel connects with spans leading to Oakland and Berkeley. , south to the border of the City of San Leandro. Port facilities include four major marine terminal areas covering almost 1,000 acres; Oakland International Airport
Oakland International Airport (IATA: OAK, ICAO: KOAK, FAA LID: OAK), also known as which covers an area of over 2,500 acres; 1,100 acres of commercial, industrial, recreational and other land; 950 acres of underdeveloped land; and about 9,800 surface acres of water area. The Port of Oakland encompasses three significant business enterprises: the maritime Port of Oakland, Oakland International Airport, and a variety of commercial real estate developments, including Jack London Square Jack London Square is a popular tourist attraction on the waterfront of Oakland, California. Named after the author Jack London and owned by the Port of Oakland, it is the home of stores, hotels, an Amtrak station, a ferry dock, the historic Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, . |
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