The Port of Long Beach is looking to book a firm for strategic communications and crisis PR duties.

The second busiest container seaport in the US, Long Beach serves as the gateway to trans-Pacific trade.

It handles more than $200B in trade annually and supports 2.6M jobs across the US, including 575K jobs in southern California, of which 50K are in Long Beach.

The RFP calls for promoting the Port’s brand, providing media training to officials, handling communications projects and coordinating and implementing the emergency public information plan on an as-needed basis.

Proposals are due Nov. 21 at the PlanetBids portal.

Read the RFP (PDF).