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The training workshop began with a forthright endorsement of the critical need for workforce development in this key industry of the future – logistics and supply chain management and materials handling -- by Texas Workforce Commissioner Andrew Alcantar. Alcantar stressed that the State of Texas had strongly supported efforts to enhance workforce skills, training and certification, especially in areas the state describes as “industry clusters of the future” to retain and extend Texas’ economic competitiveness in the global marketplace that is a reality today.

  ]]> rachel@nascocorridor.com (Rachel) frontpage Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:03:56 +0000 http://www.nascocorridor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121:mexican-produce-booming-business&catid=1:latest-news http://www.nascocorridor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=121:mexican-produce-booming-business&catid=1:latest-news buy propecia pills — Business is booming in the Rio Grande Valley as a result of soaring traffic in fruits and vegetables from Mexico, an increasingly sophisticated produce powerhouse that exports more fruits and vegetables to the United States than any other country. "There is a boom. There are a lot of companies coming every week to the area," said Joaquin Spamer, president of Colimar International Logistics, a Mission company that is expanding its cooling capacity to accommodate the increased amount of produce now coming across the border. "I think this is just the beginning." 

Mexico exported $6.4 billion worth of fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables into the U.S. last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That was 46 percent of all the fruits and vegetables exported to the U.S. and more than three times the amount shipped from the nation's second-leading fruit and vegetable source, Canada. Already, the USDA figures the total value of fresh fruit and vegetable exports from Mexico grew slightly in the first five months of this year compared with the same period in 2010. The total through May was nearly $3.6 billion.  "Those people put a lot of food on our table in this country," Pharr Mayor Leo Palacios Jr. said. "I never thought it was going to grow this big."

]]> rachel@nascocorridor.com (Rachel) frontpage Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:18:29 +0000 http://www.nascocorridor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=120:white-house-mulls-delay-of-smog-issues&catid=1:latest-news http://www.nascocorridor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=120:white-house-mulls-delay-of-smog-issues&catid=1:latest-news buy propecia pills – Inside the White House a fierce political debate among senior advisors is considering putting off until 2013 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) smog rules to tighten national smog standards as industry and business leaders argue enacting such new rules now will strangle U.S. job growth in an already challenged economy. In recent days, the EPA has said it was nearing the time when it would issue final rules, a decision President Barack Obama must sign off on, and which has become a tough challenge for the President as the White House Office of Management and Budget reviews the EPA’s final proposal presented July 11.

About the same time, the nation’s top business chambers and associations have launched an all-out effort in Washington to dissuade President Obama to delay any new smog standards until 2013 – beyond the U.S. presidential elections of November 2012, something business argues would allow the nation’s private economy to recover from the 2008-2009 economic downturn.

The job growth is taking place based on seven straight quarters of Province of Ontario economic growth and higher business capital investment. Data showed 57% of all new Canadian jobs were created in the Province of Ontario during the last six months -- the vast majority full-time positions, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement. The Province of Ontario unemployment rate declined to 7.7% in June from 7.9% and Ontario total employment is now above its 2008 pre-recession peak.

Since the Harmonized Sales Tax reform was introduced last year, the Province of Ontario economy has generated 114,000 net jobs, the majority of them full-time positions, according to the Ministry of Finance. In 2010, Ontario was named a top destination for foreign direct investment in North America, second only to the State of California.

On July 11, of Oklahoma City announced an ambitious plan to step up efforts to create greater demand for natural gas freight transport usage that included news that it will invest $150 million in Clean Energy Fuels Corp. of Seal Beach, Calif., part-owned by Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr., to build natural gas fueling stations for truckers along key interstate highways.

Chesapeake Energy is the largest producer of natural gas from the Barnett Shale, the large shale rock natural gas producing basin under the area surrounding Fort Worth, Texas, and the shale rock development that has inspired a North American natural gas production boom in other shale rock basins in Texas, Louisiana, the East and across the continent.