Newsletter

ILTA is excited to announce that attendees at our next annual conference (May 22-24, 2023) will hear from Captain Scott Kelly, the first astronaut to complete a full year in space mission. Captain Kelly will speak to our conference attendees about the leadership lessons he has learned throughout his remarkable career, and how they apply down here on Earth just as well as they served him aboard the International Space Station. 

Scott Kelly is a retired United States Navy Captain, U.S. spaceflight record holder, and an experienced test pilot who logged more than 15,000 hours of flight time in more than 40 different aircraft and spacecraft.  

Captain Kelly has traveled more than 200 million miles, more than twice the distance to the Sun, and orbited the Earth more than 8,300 times. During his yearlong mission, known worldwide as the “Year in Space,” he conducted three spacewalks before returning home in March 2016. His Year in Space Mission was chronicled in a Time Magazine documentary series and an Emmy Award-winning PBS special.  

ILTA is thrilled to announce our opening keynote for the 2023 Annual Operating Conference and Trade Show in Houston May 22-24, 2023: Generation Z expert and acclaimed generations researcher Jason Dorsey shares new insights and groundbreaking research about Gen Z on national TV. Jason is President of The Center for Generational Kinetics, the leading Gen Z and generations research, speaking, and consulting firm. Jason has worked with over 700 clients around the world, including every major industry.

ILTA held its annual membership meeting on November 3, 2022, in West Virginia and over Zoom. The day's discussion covered the organization's successful operating conference & trade show, ILTA's financial health, membership services with a demo of the new community platform Breezio and the voting in of the 2023 Board of Directors. Tim Winters of Sprague Operating Resources, LLC was elected by the membership to become the Board Chairman as Bernt Netland of Intercontinental Terminals Company moved to Chairman Emeritus. ILTA thanks Mr. Winters for his dutiful oversight during the 2022 year and is excited to work with the new Board in 2023. 

On June 15 the EPA announced updated water health advisories for two PFAS (PFOA and PFOS) and created water health advisories for two other PFAS (GenX chemicals and PFBS).

ILTA is excited to welcome General James N. Mattis USMC (Ret.) to the stage as the closing keynote speaker at our annual event in Houston, TX, June 13-15.