Civilian aircraft orders jumped by 95.1 percent, while orders excluding transportation equipment increased by 0.3 percent.
Factory orders were weak overall, but if you exclude transportation equipment, they were actually up.
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Workers in apparel, rubber, plastics, furniture, primary metals and transportation equipment are especially hard hit by oil price increases.
Also, spending on transportation equipment was below expectations, while government spending grew at a less-than-expected 0.6% over last year's second quarter.
Top American exports in 2010 included computers and electronics, agricultural products, chemicals, transportation equipment, and other machinery, particularly airplanes, the USCBC said.
Manufacturing industries reporting contraction in July included manufacturers of wood and paper products, computer and electronic products, textile mills, chemical products, transportation equipment and machinery.
We also learned today that the advance report of durable goods orders declined in August, largely as a result of a decline in orders for transportation equipment.
Its analysis shows that the total cost of gas, electricity and labor in making transportation equipment and machinery in the U.S. now beats the cost in Germany, France, Italy, the U.K. and Japan.
Transportation equipment saw demand drop the most.
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Because of the very large amounts of capital tied up in homes, buildings, power plants and industrial and transportation equipment, gradually transitioning to a capital stock that emits less carbon dioxide is much less expensive than an abrupt change.
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Visitor concessions like souvenir shops, lodging, transportation, equipment rental and food services will suffer from the decrease in tourism caused by the limitation in park hours.
Fakhir Ali Al-Jamaly said the athletes also need cars for transportation and better equipment, but they persevere.
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The road and transportation industry is already rolling its heavy equipment into town to lobby for the reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, which is set to expire this September.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Eric Weiss said equipment and personnel were expected at the scene Monday afternoon to begin pulling the fuselage from the water.
An estimated 600, 000 to 1 million of these jobs would be directly in manufacturing, with the remainder in construction, orders for new equipment, supporting services, transportation and retail sales.
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Mr. Prendergast and his team won particular praise for successful planning ahead of superstorm Sandy, helping the MTA escape some of the more severe damage to trains and equipment that afflicted other regional transportation systems.
Key industries in the region that are expected to benefit the most include: construction, machinery manufacturing, fabricated metal manufacturing, water transportation, professional and technical services, electrical equipment manufacturing, plastics products manufacturing and primary metals manufacturing.
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Plug In Cars' anonymous source also made mention of sales, which have reportedly slowed practically to a halt after the auto was was recalled by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration in August thanks to safety equipment issues.
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Police detectives and National Transportation Safety Board investigators will determine whether the equipment is from the American Airlines plane or the United Airlines plane that slammed into the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, destroying the towers and killing nearly 3, 000 people.
And it has shed non-core assets and refocused on high-margin sectors, such as transportation, power generation, and healthcare-medical equipment.
To identify the necessary repairs, Boeing says it worked closely with equipment suppliers and investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board and the Japan Transport Safety Board, spending spent more than 100, 000 hours developing test plans, building test rigs, conducting tests and analyzing the results to ensure the proposed solutions met all requirements.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority was preparing for the storm by moving some sensitive equipment out of the path of the now, and by adjusting train schedules to accommodate an earlier-than-usual afternoon rush hour on Friday.
Scherbinski said the state Department of Transportation had approved of the company's plan to drive the equipment along I-5 to Vancouver, Wash.
This includes machinery and equipment to build factories and steel mills, but also a transportation infrastructure that includes bridges, roads, airports and rail systems.
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Taking into account labor, materials, transportation, and energy costs, the chemicals, primary metals, and heavy equipment manufacturing industries stand to benefit most from maintaining or expanding facilities in the U.S. Companies in wood, plastic, and rubber products could also benefit significantly, but their lower net imports might limit their benefits from on-shoring.
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The town received 100 of the 300 pieces of snow-removal equipment loaded to Long Island towns from the New York state Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City and Westchester County, said Vanessa Baird-Streeter, Suffolk County spokeswoman.
To rank all 50 states, the group focused on a variety of programs, including standards for equipment and appliances, energy codes for buildings and policies for land use and transportation, as well as public spending on initiatives at utilities, tailpipe standards and tax incentives.
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