10:45-11:30 Registration, 11:30-12:00 Lunch, 12:00-1:00 Speaker

Speaker: Captain Eric Carrero, President for the Greater Houston Port Bureau

The Houston Ship Channel, is part of the Port of Houston, and is one of the busiest seaports in the world.  The channel has been used to move goods since 1836.  Please join us for a presentation by Captain Eric Carrero, the President for the Greater Houston Port Bureau. 

Captain Carrero will be sharing information on the business of running one of the busiest ports in the world from cruise ships in Galveston, to container vessels in the Port of Houston.  Carrero has extensive experience and a deep understanding of the industry and will be shedding light on the strategies driving Houston’s port success, covering insights on freight mobility, infrastructure construction, and long-term economic vitality and funding. 

CPE Credit Offered: 1 Hour

Field of Study: economics

Advance Preparation Needed: None

Course Level: Basic

Captain Eric M. Carrero, President

Greater Houston Port Bureau

CAPT Eric M. Carrero, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.), is President of the Greater Houston PortBureau, a maritime trade organization of 230+ companies. The Port Bureau supplies itscompanies with detail vessel traffic information and maritime expertise in safety, security, and environmental issues and has been instrumental in representing members,the Houston Ship Channel Security District, and the

Greater Houston Coffee Association in front of state and federal legislators.

Prior coming to the Port Bureau, Captain Carrero was assigned to the Eighth Coast Guard District as the Director, Western Rivers and Waterways Division, where he facilitated waterborne commerce through aids to navigation and vessel traffic center oversight as well as maintaining federal partnership and coordination in 27 states. His most recentoperational assignment included Commanding Officer at Marine Safety Unit Texas where he carried out the Coast Guard’s Homeland Security, Marine Safety, and Marine Environmental Protection missions in the Ports of Galveston,Texas City and Freeport, in over 120-miles of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, a 4,000 square- mile region of the Outer Continental Shelf and the entrance to the nation’s largest petrochemical complex.

With 26 years of experience in maritime operations, Captain Carrero is a certified Marine Safety Professional withnumerous qualifications in marine pollution response, marine casualty investigations and vessel inspections. He was deployed to the historic responses to Hurricane Katrina, Haiti Earthquake and served as Operations Section Chiefduring Hurricane Harvey where he was responsible for all maritime transportation issues related to the successful Coast Guard response in Houston- Galveston.

He is a graduate from the University of Puerto Rico, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management and Policy from the American Public University System.