Adolph Ojard

DIRECTOR

Adolph N. Ojard was appointed executive director of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority March 2003.

A Great Lakes maritime and transportation veteran, he now serves as the Port Authority’s chief executive officer. Ojard spent more than 30 years with various transportation affiliates of the United States Steel Corporation. Ojard held executive positions in rail, inland barging and Great Lakes shipping. He was president of the Warrior Gulf Navigation Co., an inland barge company with stevedoring and transload facilities in Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama, until 1997. From 1997 to 2002, Ojard served as general manager of both the DM&IR Railway and USS Great Lakes Fleet, a regional railroad and a vessel company headquartered in Minnesota.

Ojard is also the current president of the American Great Lakes Ports Association.