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Load King Acquires Terex Boom, Crossover, Truck Crane Lines

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Load King has acquired Terex’s boom truck, crossover, and truck crane product lines, and plans to unveil new crane configurations in the near future. It is currently transferring inventory and equipment for the acquired product lines to Load King’s campus in Kansas City. Terex will continue to sell…

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

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From the people to the technology and the resources to the components, the system that moves a product from the supplier to the customer involves many steps. A process needs to be in place to move materials, services, people or any other “product” from point A to point B and possibly all the way to Z. trillion in 2011, a 6.6

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

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. population.

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Iowa: Moving To The Top Of The Class

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Iowa also has the ingredients to transform the chemical industry, Already among the nation’s leaders in ethanol and biodiesel production, Iowa’s bioscience industry is continually seeking new uses for its internationally famous agricultural bounty. Louis, Kansas City, Des Moines, Indianapolis and Omaha.

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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 is a right-to-work state, bringing one additional cost saving to employers. A new BNSF Railway Intermodal Facility near Kansas City provides businesses with one more strategic shipping advantage.

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

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While costs increased, this is a slight drop in the percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), which was 8.4 percent in 2014 due to stronger shipment volumes and inventory carrying charges that were up 2.1 The freeway provides a benefit to GPC, both for receiving raw materials and for shipping finished product. percent in 2014.

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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.” gross domestic product (GDP). There is no inventory tax, which is particularly advantageous to distribution companies.