Similarly, places like Kansas City and the Dakotas are looking to boost their basic rail and road networks to support export-heavy industries.

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They are working on everything from road and metro construction to an industrial clustering program, export training and information, business incubators and changing governmental industrial policy.

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It's currently producing 28 million cases of spirits, most of that heading for export from Grangemouth or to Diageo's UK distribution centre via a narrow road bottleneck.

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