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Business Report: Businesses Are Finding It’s Better In The Bluegrass State

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Ford recently announced it will invest $80 million and add 350 new jobs to boost production capacity at its Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville. Kentucky has 2,760 rail miles and is a center for railroad giants: CSX, Canadian National, and Norfolk Southern. Southeast BF-March/April-2014 Georgetown Louisville' What about trains?

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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. Two Class 1 and one local railroad are important parts of the transportation system. fuel consumption dropped.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Indiana — More And More Roads Are Leading To “The Crossroads Of America”

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Incorporated in 1949, Hoosier Energy is a generation and transmission cooperative (G&T) providing wholesale electric power and services to 18 member distribution cooperatives in central and southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois to meet the collective electricity needs of more than 750,000 residents, businesses, industries and farms.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

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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. Two Class 1 and one local railroad are important parts of the transportation system.

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

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Chicago is the nation’s rail hub that connects six of the seven class one railroads. DuPage County is accessible to the 52 railroads in Illinois, which makes the area the nation’s largest rail gateway, providing access to every state in the continental U.S. This region is the only U.S.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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At least 65 percent of these funds will be provided for expansion of the Computer Science Division of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at LSU. Anchorage, AK held onto second place, followed by Louisville, KY, the North American hub for UPS. degrees in computer science awarded annually.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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Top products exported from the region were transportation equipment, machinery, except electrical, computer and electronics, and electrical equipment, appliance and components. Each crane weighs 1,550 tons and is fully electric so it emits no diesel emissions. Canada is also the largest trading partner to the U.S.

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