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2022 SESSION


SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 105
Commending B. Wayne Coleman.

 

Agreed to by the Senate, February 17, 2022
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 21, 2022

 

WHEREAS, B. Wayne Coleman, chairman of the Norfolk-based shipping company CV International, Inc., has greatly served the Commonwealth and the Virginia Maritime Association throughout his half-century career in the maritime industry; and

WHEREAS, Wayne Coleman, with his wife, Judy, opened a freight forwarding business in 1984, which grew through several mergers, acquisitions, and expansions to become CV International, Inc., and Capes Shipping Agencies; and

WHEREAS, Wayne Coleman’s enterprises maintain offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States and are well-equipped to provide exporters and importers with world-class freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and ship agency services, and a suite of other professional logistics services; and

WHEREAS, committed to the growth and development of his trade, Wayne Coleman has held many leadership roles in various organizations, including the Virginia Maritime Association, the Virginia Port Authority advisory committee, and the Old Dominion University Maritime, Ports & Logistics Institute Board of Directors, which he served as chair; and

WHEREAS, under Wayne Coleman’s leadership, CV International, Inc., was a founding partner of the Virginia Leaders in Export Trade program, an initiative spearheaded by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to help companies in the Commonwealth expand into international markets; and

WHEREAS, to celebrate his myriad professional accomplishments and efforts to promote world trade, Wayne Coleman was presented with the Hampton Roads Global Commerce Council’s Commerce Builder Award in 2014; and

WHEREAS, in recognition of a career of extended involvement and readiness to assist the maritime industry in promoting, protecting, and encouraging Virginia’s ports, Wayne Coleman was presented the 2021 Distinguished Service Award by the Virginia Maritime Association; and

WHEREAS, throughout his career, Wayne Coleman has represented the interests of the maritime industry with the utmost integrity and distinction and has advanced endeavors that will ensure the Port of Virginia’s preeminence in global trade for years to come; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That the General Assembly hereby commend B. Wayne Coleman, chairman of CV International, Inc., for his years of dedicated service to the maritime industry and ports of Virginia; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to B. Wayne Coleman as an expression of the General Assembly’s admiration for his contributions to the Commonwealth.