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7March, 2016

Can China’s Manufacturers Make US Factories Successful?

By |March 7th, 2016|

All of us are aware of how China’s economy has exploded over the last thirty years, in part based upon the amazing performance of its low cost manufacturers that make the goods that line shelves of US discount stores. And in fact many argue that China will overtake the United States to become the leading economic power in the world.

29February, 2016

USDOT Opens Applications for $800 Million: “FASTLANE” Freight Grants

By |February 29th, 2016|

Fully empowering local creativity, or funding an uncoordinated muddle of disconnected projects that actually don't add up to a strategic investment and infrastructure plan? Well, the US Government is now really putting significant tax funding behind freight project funding. At GLDPartners, we're not sure that we are necessarily spending toward a comprehensive and coordinated national business strategy, but at least we are allowing state and local officials to use their own project inventiveness. From our corporate and sector intelligence work, we see special market opportunity at and around airports and seaports. Let's hope that we see projects that are able to solve cargo movement problems and create economic growth.

28February, 2016

US National Freight Plan Draft – We’ve Made A Lot of Progress. But Not There Yet.

By |February 28th, 2016|

A vast step forward and accolades are deserved to many for pushing us along toward a thoughtful and comprehensive strategy for freight planning and investment. It's been a long time and somehow this has been very challenging. That said, let me underline that like most "freight" studies and strategies, it seems that there is still a wall between economic strategy, competitiveness assessing and freight planning.

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