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Discover Your EDGE in Avondale

Business Facilities

Avondale, Arizona offers a low cost of doing business, uncomplicated permitting process, access to critical transportation corridors, and a deep talent pipeline of skilled workers. Read: Discover Your EDGE in Avondale at BusinessFacilities.com.

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2023 Top 500 Sourcebook: Going for Green in Transportation

ENR Construction

Cargo transfer operations at the Port of Long Beach are poised to become both greener and more efficient over the next decade with the $1.567-billion Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility.

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East vs. West

Business Facilities

It’ll enable huge post-Panamax container vessels to travel directly to Atlantic and Gulf ports instead of offloading their cargo on the West Coast and transporting it across America. Los Angeles and Long Beach are stressing their advantages, which they say cannot be matched by Gulf and East Coast ports.

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FEATURE STORY: Logistics Clusters Are Jobs Magnets

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

These include transportation carriers of all kinds, as well as warehousing, distribution, third-party logistics services, manufacturers’ operations, retailers and distributers who may have their own distribution centers. Sheffi is a professor of Engineering Systems and director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL).

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Delivering acoustic sanity

Construction Specifier

Think about distractions in your office—or home office,” says Sara Hickman, sustainability director at RDC-S111 in Long Beach, California. Poor acoustics is that silent killer. Hickman is a LEED AP, WELL AP, and EcoDistricts AP. Poor acoustics can be so abrupt, and when distracted by something abrupt, it really throws you.”.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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SelectUSA states that “A highly integrated supply chain network in the United States links producers and consumers through multiple transportation modes, including air and express delivery services, freight rail, maritime transport and truck transport. logistics and transportation industry totaled $1.33

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Business Facilities’ 10th Annual Rankings Report: Memphis, NOLA Are Logistics Leaders; Houston Is No. 1 In Use Of Renewable Energy

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LONG BEACH, CA. Jobs in the transport&logistics industry. BEAUMONT, TX. RENEWABLE ENERGY LEADERS. HOUSTON, TX. WASHINGTON, DC. AUSTIN, TX. DALLAS, TX. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD. EXPORTS GROWTH LEADERS. YOUNGSTOWN, OH. NEW ORLEANS, LA. BATON ROUGE, LA. DETROIT, MI. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.

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