Membership
2024 Officers
Chair
Larry Landgraver, Port of Longview
Vice Chair
Ross McDonald, Sause Bros.
Secretary
Carl Bertapelle, Merchants Exchange
Administrator
Michelle Eyres, Merchants Exchange
Officers are elected for one-year terms. Board Members are elected for two year terms. Elections are held at the November Board Meeting.
Board of Directors
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Subcommittees
The Lower Columbia Region Harbor Safety Committee has several standing subcommittees to address waterway issues that impact the Columbia River system.
Current Subcommittees:
- Anchorages
- Make-way
- Navigation
- Extreme Water
- Harbor Safety Plan and Harbor Safety Plan Formatting
- Financial Steering Committee (Board of Directors)
- Executive Committee (Officers)
- Bridge Sub Committee
2024 Participating Member Companies
Thank You for your continued financial support of the mission of the Lower Columbia Region Harbor Safety Committee.
- Anchorage Launch Service Co.
- Centerline Logistics
- Chevron
- Clean Rivers Cooperative
- Columbia Grain
- Columbia River Bar Pilots
- Columbia River Launch Services
- Columbia River Pilots
- Columbia River Tribal Fisheries Enforcement
- Columbia River Steamship Operators’ Association
- Columbia River Yachting Association
- Crowley Marine
- EGT
- Foss Maritime
- Kalama Export
- Kirby Offshore Marine
- Marathon Petroleum
- Maritime Fire and Safety Association
- McCall Oil & Chemical
- Merchants Exchange
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co.
- Oregon Board of Maritime Pilots
- Oregon Department of Environment Quality
- Pacific Northwest Waterways Association
- Phillips66
- Port of Kalama
- Port of Longview
- Port of Portland
- Port of Columbia County
- Port of Vancouver
- Portland Spirit
- Sause Bros. Ocean Towing
- Shaver Transportation Company
- Shogren Consulting Group/MaritimeImages.net
- TEMCO Kalama
- Tidewater Transportation and Terminals
- Transmarine Navigation
- Transmontaigne
- US Army Corps of Engineers
- US Coast Guard
- Vigor Industrial
- Washington Department of Ecology
- Wilhelmsen Ship Services
Board of Directors
- Larry Landgraver, Port of Longview (2026) 2023 Chair
- Ross McDonald, Sause Bros (2025) 2023 Vice Chair
- Carl Bertapelle, Merchants Exchange (2025) 2023 Secretary
- Jon Hellberg, Shaver Transportation Company (2026)
- Steve Ackerman, Columbia River Bar Pilots (2026)
- Dustin Johnson, Columbia River Pilots (2025)
- Vanessa Green, Clean Rivers Cooperative (2026)
- Kate Mickelson, Columbia River Steamship Operators’ Assn. (2026)
- Randy Cooper, EGT, LLC (2025)
- Neal Feustel, Foss Maritime (2025)
- Carl Obermeier, Maritime Fire and Safety Assn. (2025)
- Dena Horton, Pacific Northwest Waterways Assn. (2026)
- Elliot Levin, Port of Columbia County (2025)
- Fred Myer, Port of Portland (2026)
- Kenny Davais, Port of Vancouver USA (2025)
Ex Officio Board Members:
- Josh Emerson, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
- Brian Kirk, Washington Department of Ecology
Federal Representatives:
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
- U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
- Maritime Administration (MARAD)
As per the bylaws of the Lower Columbia Region Harbor Safety Committee (accepted January 9, 2019): a variable-range size board of directors shall be established. The minimum number of directors will be eleven (11) and the maximum number of directors will be twenty-three (23). Federal representatives of the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Navy, and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration shall serve as ex officio members of the board of directors, to the extent they consent to participate, Federal representatives shall not have the right to vote and are not counted in quorum size. The term of each director will be two years.
Association Management
Michelle Eyres, Administrator
Merchants Exchange
email: LCRHSC@pdxmex.com
phone: (503) 220-2097