Training Workshop: Hawaiian multi-modal conference offers training opportunities

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii (USTCNS) --- Middle managers involved in cargo operations, personal property traffic management and passenger travel have an opportunity to improve their skills at an upcoming workshop.

The 599th Transportation Group and the U.S. Pacific Command are jointly sponsoring their eighth annual Multi-Modal Traffic Management Training Workshop.

The workshop will be held Oct. 29-Nov. 2 at the Turtle Bay Hilton Hotel, on the North Shore of Oahu, approximately one hour's drive from Honolulu.

"The workshop provides the opportunity to bring together Department of Defense traffic managers along with commercial industry transportation personnel from throughout the Pacific Region," said Col. John Bordwell, commander, 599th Transportation Group.

The theme of this year's conference is "Logistics in Motion - Working Together to Move the Pacific." The workshop will include briefings, demonstrations and training related to Defense Transportation System multi-modal and traffic management issues.

For more information, visit the conference Web site at http://www.mtmc.army.mil/conf/conf_default.htm or contact Marty Leehane, (808) 656-5920, at the 599th Transportation Group. (FROM MILITARY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS)