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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

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Includes wood, wood waste, wood liquors, peat, railroad ties, wood sludge, spent sulfite liquors, agricultural waste, straw, tires, fish oils, tall oil, sludge waste, waste alcohol, municipal solid waste, landfill gases, other waste, and ethanol blended into motor gasoline. The atmosphere also contains clouds and aerosols.

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How to plan your warehouse layout

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They protect inventory and, when built right, improve on the efficiency with which that inventory is received, sorted, retrieved and shipped. Below are architectural site plans for buildings at America’s Central Port that account for roadway connections and existing utility services. Be aware of these rules before design begins.

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STATE FOCUS: Kansas Focuses On The All-Around

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Kansas also has no personal property tax, no inventory tax and no franchise tax. Kansas also has one of the best and most extensive railroad systems in the country; the state’s 4,776 miles of track account for 2.23 railroad miles. Kansas is a right-to-work state, bringing one additional cost saving to employers.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Two Train Cars Forward, Three Cargo Ships Back

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Sophisticated planning is required to account for never ending variables that help to keep supply chain costs down and quality and profits up. Logistics incorporates the complexity of integrating information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling and packaging. This accounts for 8.5 trillion in 2011, a 6.6

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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1,677 miles of Class 1 railroads. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. In addition, the state has 22 smaller railroads operating over its more than 2,700 miles of track. In Arkansas, you will find: 1,000 miles of navigable waterways.

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Logistics: On the Road, Water or Rails…or in the Air — AGAIN

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percent in 2014 due to stronger shipment volumes and inventory carrying charges that were up 2.1 Chicago is the nation’s rail hub that connects six of the seven class one railroads. gateway where all six major Class-One North American railroads can interchange traffic. percent in 2013 and 8.3 percent in 2014. million tons).

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Slow economic growth has kept the percentage low, but the supply chain sector has made great strides in productivity, asset utilization and inventory management in the past three years.” Labor Department forecasts that truck drivers will account for 43 percent of the growth in logistics jobs in the coming years. Spending in the U.S.