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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Soaring To New Heights

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Shreveport Regional Airport. Three Louisiana Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) schools, including one at Southern University at Shreveport, deliver technicians with required certificates and FAA certifications. Express Jet operates a maintenance facility at the airport and employs 280 workers. By BF Staff.

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Feature Story: Shovel-Ready Sites – Fired Up, Ready To Go

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states have launched site certification programs with the goal of helping communities prepare available sites for investment and expansion. million aviation technical school is nearing completion at the Fairhope Airport Industrial Park, designated at an Alabama AdvantageSite. Across the U.S., million in capital investments.

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

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The Railroad sector was the big winner with a 15.3 There are networks with 120,000 miles of major railroads, more than 25,000 miles of commercially navigable waterways and more than 5,000 public-use airports. Industrial supplies represented the largest goods export category with a record $499.5 fuel consumption dropped.

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Snapshots: 60 Seconds… With Bill Hagerty, Commissioner, Tennessee Department Of Economic And Community Development

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Reno also is vying to become a leading test center for drones and is in the running for what likely will be the biggest economic development prize this year: Tesla’s lithium battery plant, from which the electric carmaker intends to supply batteries to the entire U.S. auto industry.

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COVER STORY: Shovel Ready Sites Are Growing From The Ground Up

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are implementing site certification programs called “shovel ready”—meaning that the site is primed and ready for economic development. Cloud’s Airport Industrial Park, an area certified as “Shovel Ready” under the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Shovel Ready Site Certification Program.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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The Memphis International Airport is home to the FedEx Superhub. This is where you see development of hybrid trucks, electric trucks and hybrid cranes. The communities that are served by rural electric cooperatives in this region have the advantage of proximity to the vast majority of the United States population.

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Global Growth Surge in Southwest Louisiana

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The southwest side of Louisiana is in a strategic location with access to ports, airports, rail, the Intercoastal Canal, and America’s premier pipeline that helps to deliver industrial products across the country,” he said. There is a four-lane interstate quality highway US 90 (future I-49) that parallels the railroads.