UBM Global Trade today announces several significant investments designed 
to enhance its industry-leading Breakbulk franchise, which includes three 
global Breakbulk events, Breakbulk Magazine and Breakbulk.com. Key personnel 
appointments and product investments, including a newly designed Breakbulk.com 
and global distribution of Breakbulk Magazine, will ensure continued excellence 
of service to the heavy-lift, project cargo and traditional breakbulk shipping 
sectors. 

    Alli McEntyre, Vice President of Marketing Services for The Journal of 
Commerce, has been named Vice President and Publisher of Breakbulk, with 
responsibility for guiding the Breakbulk brand across all media, including 
events, print and online.  

    Janet Plume has been named Content Director of Breakbulk, overseeing all 
event programming, Breakbulk Magazine and Breakbulk.com content. With extensive 
experience covering the breakbulk market, Janet will deliver expanded 
analytical and data-rich information and analysis of particular value to EPCs, 
project owners, breakbulk commodity shippers and their service providers. Janet 
Nodar has been named Editor of Breakbulk Magazine and Breakbulk.com. She has 
been a part-time Breakbulk Magazine reporter for the past four years and will 
leverage a worldwide network of contacts to develop industry-leading content in 
her new, full-time role. In addition, Dana Brundage has been hired as Breakbulk 
Digital Editor. 

    Rhiannon James has been named Senior Vice President of Marketing Services, 
Strategic Advisor for the Breakbulk Europe Conference. She will oversee all 
aspects of the Breakbulk Europe event, including exhibition, conference 
audience development and on-site logistics.

    Julie Wallner has been named Exhibition Sales Manager for Breakbulk 
exhibitions worldwide. Julie will oversee all Breakbulk exhibition sales staff 
for the Breakbulk events. She will also continue to serve the Americas as 
Exhibition Sales Representative. Adrian van Beuningen will join the team as 
Breakbulk's Sales Director, Europe selling Breakbulk exhibitions, sponsorship, 
Breakbulk Magazine and Breakbulk.com marketing packages. Greg March, Asia 
Events Director, and Judy Ow Yeong, Asia Sales Manager, will lead sales of 
Breakbulk exhibitions, sponsorship, Breakbulk Magazine and Breakbulk.com 
marketing packages in Asia.  

    Eric Claiborne has been hired in the role of Audience Development Manager 
to grow Breakbulk event attendance and increase readership of Breakbulk 
Magazine and Breakbulk.com. 

    Rose Ferrara, Senior Conference Administrator, is new to the Breakbulk 
organization and will assist Matthew Albanese, Breakbulk Americas Conference 
Director, and Kahlia Wilkins, Breakbulk Registrar.

    As part of the commitment to continuously improve services to the Breakbulk 
community, a completely redesigned Breakbulk.com and upgraded Breakbulk 
Magazine will be introduced at Breakbulk Europe 2010. For more information, 
please visit www.breakbulk.com. 

    Breakbulk comprises the leading business-to-business events, magazine and 
Web site devoted solely to heavy-lift, project cargo and breakbulk commodity 
shipping worldwide. Breakbulk.com and Breakbulk Magazine, an outgrowth of the 
editorial excellence of The Journal of Commerce, deliver insightful analysis of 
current events affecting the global breakbulk and project cargo industries. The 
breakbulk events include the Breakbulk Americas, Breakbulk Europe and Breakbulk 
Asia conferences. For more information, please visit www.breakbulk.com or call 
+1-225-784-0177.  

    About UBM Global Trade - UBM Global Trade, formerly Commonwealth Business 
Media, Inc., has been the leading provider of proprietary data, news, business 
intelligence and analytical content supporting commercial maritime, rail, 
trucking, warehousing and logistics industries worldwide since 1827. The 
company's portfolio of more than 100 online, print and interactive workflow 
business solutions includes The Journal of Commerce, The Journal of Commerce 
Events, PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions and an array of international trade 
and transportation databases and directories. UBM Global Trade, a subsidiary of 
United Business Media Limited, is headquartered in East Windsor, NJ, with 
offices throughout the United States and in Canada and Hong Kong. For more 
information, explore www.ubmglobaltrade.com or call 800-221-5488 
(+1-609-371-7700 outside the U.S. and Canada).

    About United Business Media Limited -- UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal 
activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring, and 
the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's 
businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from 
doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers 
to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business 
information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries is organized 
into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers 
together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and 
efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.


SOURCE:  UBM Global Trade

    CONTACT:  
    Peter Tirschwell, 
    Senior Vice President, 
    The Journal of Commerce/UBM Global Trade, 
    +1-973-848-7158, 
    ptirschwell@joc.com