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On Tuesday, May 7, ILTA held its Annual ILTA Safety Awards Presentation and Breakfast to honor 28 terminal member companies that achieved outstanding safety performance in 2023.

To receive the 2024 ILTA Safety Excellence Award, companies were required to score in the top two quartiles for both the 20 question self-assessment survey on leading indicators and the lagging indicator survey based on OSHA Form 300A.  This year, 52 companies participated in the safety survey, representing 70 percent of our membership.

The International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA), a prominent industry association representing the liquids terminal industry, is delighted to announce the promotion of Leakhena Swett from Executive Vice President to President.

In 2009, Steven Laws had been working in Whiting, Indiana—away from home—for approximately one year. It was then a friend of Laws called and asked if he was interested in working for a terminal company.

“I wanted to get back home and had never worked in a terminal, so I saw it a new opportunity and started working for Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) in 2009,” said Laws, who is still with the company today in in Deer Park, Texas as a Safety Specialist II.

For Laws, the best part of his job is getting the opportunity to work with a great team.

“ITC has allowed me to grow as an employee and afforded me opportunity to grow in my personal life as well,” Laws said, offering advice to those just starting out in the industry. “Look, learn and listen; be a sponge absorbing all the information you can. Also, if your new to the liquid terminal business, utilize your resources (veteran employees, policies and procedures, etc.)”

Dear Chairman Carper, Ranking Member Moore Capito, and the rest of the esteemed Senate Environment & Public Works Committee members, please accept for the record the following statement from the International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA) on the March 20, 2024 full committee hearing on, “Examining PFAS as a Hazardous Substance.”

Washinton D.C., February 2, 2024 - 2024 marks a special celebration for the International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA) as it is the association’s 50th anniversary. Since 1974, ILTA has worked alongside bulk liquid terminal companies and their supplier partners to educate, advocate, and unify the bulk liquid terminaling industry. This year, we invite you to join us in celebrating ILTA’s history of leadership, growth, and service.

Bulk liquid terminals, as the critical storage and logistics nodes for products like oil and gas, biofuels like ethanol, liquid hydrogen, asphalt, food products like molasses, and beyond, play a significant role in our everyday lives.

Over the decades, ILTA has grown from a small body of only a few members to today representing over seventy terminal companies and three hundred supplier companies, from small facilities with only a few terminal tanks to multicontinental organizations employing thousands across the globe. Our annual conference and trade show has grown to be the industry’s leading convention, bringing together thousands in the industry to share their ideas and learn with one another. Likewise, our biannual committee meetings and annual Terminal Operating Practices Symposium offer further opportunities for the industry to grow.