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Article: Anchorage's new hope for air cargo.(rise of air cargo industry in Anchorage, Alaska)(Industry Overview)
- Article from:
- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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Air cargo industry leaders see Anchorage as a factory assembly and distribution center, delivering manufactured goods to the rest of the world.
On any given day, at least 93 planes with bellies full of documents, crates and boxes pass through the Anchorage International Airport, one after another, a visible testament to the seemingly endless growth of the air cargo industry.
Now the airport is banking on a Department of Transportation ruling to open up Alaska's skies even more. Airport officials and other industry players are trying to make better use of the 1996 Department of Transportation ruling that allows greater leeway for freight operations, and, ...