For Immediate
Release: October 13, 2005
Senator Debbe Leftwich
Senator Leftwich Elected to International Post
State Senator Debbe Leftwich has been named the
new Secretary of North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition,
Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s
first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation
system along the International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor.
The corridor, which extends from Mexico to Canada, runs through
Oklahoma along Interstate 35 to improve both the trade competitiveness
and quality of life in North America.
Senator Leftwich’s late husband, Senator Keith Leftwich,
was instrumental in the creation of NASCO.
“Developing this corridor will create future economic growth
in South Oklahoma City and throughout Oklahoma. My husband was
among the first to recognize the enormous economic impact the
trade corridor could have on our state and I’m proud to
continue the work that he began,” said Leftwich, D-Oklahoma
City.
The NASCO Corridor directly impacts the continental trade flow
in North America. Membership includes public and private sector
entities along the Corridor in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Kansas City attorney George Blackwood will lead NASCO as the new
President.
Manitoba’s Deputy Minister of Transportation and Governmental
Services Andrew Horosko will continue serving as the NASCO Regional
Vice President of Canada. Webb County, Texas, Commissioner Jerry
Garza will be the Regional Vice President of the United States
for NASCO. Captain Hector Mora Gomez, Port Director of the Port
of Manzanillo, Mexico, will serve as NASCO’s Regional Vice
President of Mexico.
Dale Vander Schaaf, of the Iowa Department of Transportation,
will remain the organization’s Treasurer.
The North American Inland Port Network (NAIPN), a sub-committee
of NASCO, has been tasked with developing an active inland port
network along our corridor to specifically alleviate congestion
at maritime ports and our nation’s borders. The NAIPN envisions
an integrated, efficient and secure network of inland ports specializing
in the transportation of containerized cargo in North America.
The main guiding principal of the NAIPN is to develop logistics
systems that enhance global security, but at the same time do
not impede the cost-effective and efficient flow of goods.
