Byline: Vicki Vaughan
Oct. 2--Take the elevator up to the offices of downtown San Antonio's newest corporate citizen and you're greeted with incongruous sights. The foyer sports a mural of a tanker riding heavy seas. A brass ship's wheel is on display. Employees speak with charming drawls from somewhere outside Texas.
You've arrived at the headquarters of AHL Shipping Co., an owner and operator of oil tankers that recently inked a deal to build three new vessels for a division of Royal Dutch Shell at a cost of about $350 million.
AHL's CEO, Richard Horner, decided more than a year ago that he couldn't continue to run his company from its longtime New Orleans ...