Armando Duarte-Peláez, a longtime board member of Colombia’s Sociedad Portuaria de Santa Marta, has been installed as the American Association of Port Authorities' (AAPA) chairman 2012-13 . Duarte-Peláez accepted the new appointment's duties at a membership meeting in Mobile, Ala., in late October. Kurt Nagle, AAPA's president and chief executive officer, called Durate-Peláez "a strong advocate for integrating all Western Hemisphere ports under the collaborative ...