WATCH: Canaveral Port Authority Candidate Mac McLouth Details His Vision For Port Canaveral

Highly Experienced port executive and civil engineer

ABOVE VIDEO: Malcolm “Mac” McLouth, a candidate for the Port Canaveral District 5 seat, discusses his vision for the future of Port Canaveral, along with the challenges that the port is facing in the next few years.

BREVARD COUNTY • PORT CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – Malcolm “Mac” McLouth, a Republican candidate for Port Canaveral District 5, discusses his vision for the future of Port Canaveral, along with the challenges to be faced by the port – one of the region’s most important economic engines.

McLouth, a driving force of the progress of Port Canaveral since the 1970s, has served as a port commissioner nine times and as the CEO for four years.

McLouth, a civil engineer, has devoted a large part of his career to the creation and advancement of Port Canaveral and is now running again for the District 5 seat.

In a Space Coast Daily interview, McLouth addresses these important factors that the port has addressed and ones that it will face in the years to come:

• Port Canaveral is currently No. 2 in cruise passengers in the world – second to the Port of Miami. McLouth’s vision is for Port Canaveral to overtake Miami and become No. 1 within 3 years.
• Key decisions that the port will face, to address and move in the right direction, engaging the Port’s Master Plan.
• Tough decisions that the port authority will have to make in the short term.
• Where will the port be in five years and how do we get there?
• The port’s cargo business – is rail in the future for the port?
• The port’s ancillary business lines – Cemex and others.
• Other forms of trade opportunity for the port.
• The port’s role in the Indian River Lagoon cleanup and going green at the port.
• Port Canaveral as one of the cleanest big ports in the world.

ABOUT MAC MCLOUTH:

McLouth’s expertise and experience at Port Canaveral go back more than 51 years when in 1967 as a first-term port commissioner, McLouth proposed that the authority make a pitch to the then brand new Walt Disney World as its “outlet to the sea” for both goods and people.

In the six decades since, McClouth has been a visionary and loyal servant to the development and success of Port Canaveral, which is now the second busiest cruise port in the world – and a major economic driver for the region.

McLouth was honored for his service by Port Canaveral in 1995 by putting his name on the Malcolm E. McLouth Fishing Pier at Jetty Park, which is a landmark 1,200-foot public fishing pier at the opening to the channel into the Atlantic Ocean.

McLouth said he decided to run at the urging of other port commissioners and trusted friends who often rely and call upon his intimate institutional knowledge and enthusiasm for Port Canaveral.

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