Event Description: The Alabama Port Authority will host public officials, including elected officials and others, for a dinner in conjunction with an event hosted at the Port Authority on November 12-13, 2026. The purpose of the event is to educate and inform elected officials on the public seaport terminals' infrastructure and the port's economic impact to both the region and the State of Alabama. The dinner would be hosted by the Port Authority, and the Port Authority expects that it would ask other interested parties to co-host and bear part of the cost of the dinner.