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Kansas City Southern Positive Despite Downturn
Chairman & CEO Michael R. Haverty says that despite the global economic downturn, the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) remains positive about the long-term outlook for its cross-border franchise...
Kansas City Breaks Ground for Its Intermodal BusinessCentre
This is Phase I of an 800-acre multi-use development on the southeast corner of the airfield at Kansas City International Airport...
SubTropolis Hosts Education Initiative
Exchange City will unveil a brand new, state-of-the art city at Hunt Midwest SubTropolis, the world’s largest underground business complex. Exchange City will share the space with sister program EarthWorks...
UPS Expands in Louisville, Improves Transit Times
The new Kentucky ground hub replaces an older one near the airport, making room for expansion of the company’s global air hub...
UPS Restoring Service After Gustav
UPS said on September 3, 2008 it had restored package delivery service to most geographic areas touched by Hurricane Gustav...
Indiana University Adds Supply Chain Curriculum
The Kelley School of Business will add supply chain management as a concentration in the Evening MBA Program, which holds classes on the IUPUI campus and in Carmel...
Exel To Support Chrysler Dealer Network
Third-party logistics provider Exel has expanded its relationship with US automaker Chrysler to provide dedicated delivery service to 270 Midwestern auto dealers...
Fed Transport Plan Calls for Tolls, Private Funding
Calling the federal approach to transportation broken, US Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters said it’s time for a new, different and better approach...
Kansas City Opens a New Intermodal Center
The Center is the result of cooperative action by Kansas City Southern, CenterPoint Properties, Hunt Midwest Enterprises, Inc. and the Port Authority...
Kansas City From the Ground Up
When Logistics Today updated the Top 50 Logistics Friendly Cities list late in 2007, it was interesting to see that the Kansas City metro area appeared at the top of the list. Aside from geography, what makes the region such a good fit for logistics?...
Midwest Retailer Extends Its Network
Passion and commitment helped CDW manage layers of growth for over a decade, but when its land-locked facility couldnt grow any more, it was time to add...
Kansas City Stands at key crossroads
For Kansas City, geography has combined with opportunity to make it a logistics center. Theres no argument that being roughly at the geographic center...
The Logistics Quotient: Midwest
Compiled in partnership with Expansion Management magazine, the Midwest Regional Logistics Quotient matrix provides an overall ranking of each city within...
U.S. Midwest Site Selector
How to use the U.S. Midwest Site Selector Logistics Today's Site Selector offers an objective ranking of 362 U.S. cities based on criteria important to...
Speeding Shipments from the East Coast to the Midwest
Under discussion for years - since the 1980s-- the Heartland corridor concept is an intermodal rail route that will offer double-stack container movement...
U.S. Midwest Site Selector
TheSite Selector offers an objective ranking of 331 U.S. cities based on criteria important to logistics professionals. This customized listing looks...
Kansas City seeks multi-modal role
Kansas City seeks multi-modal role Kansas City wants to take advantage of more than its strategic location to become a major multi-modal center Site selection...
How to use the midwest site selector
TheSite Selector offers an objective ranking of 328 U.S. cities based on criteria important to logistics professionals. This customized listing looks...
Reaching Out to the Midwest
It will be integrated into the operations of its subsidiary, Saia (www.saia.com). SCS other major subsidiary is the combination less-than-truckload (LTL)...
