Kandahar is the main transport and logistics hub for this turbulent region.

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It is also well placed to be a transit and logistics hub for shipping Russian oil and gas onward to Asia and Asian-made goods deeper into Russia.

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Public policy played a critical role in planning the right roads, rail lines and ports that positioned Chicago as a global transportation and logistics hub 50 years ago.

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The company got this effort under way while digging out from the damage to its logistics hub and photo studio near its headquarters in Chiba, across the bay from Tokyo.

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The prospect of tens of thousands of new jobs and a new business sector is often the focus of the buzz, but Smiertka said the benefits of Michigan as the next major transportation and logistics hub go far beyond the state itself.

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In 1988, Pierre Mauroy, the city's mayor and a powerful figure in France's Socialist Party, engineered the routing of a new network of domestic and international high-speed train services through Lille and used that coup to turn the city into a logistics and service hub.

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The Ruhr has therefore been reinventing itself as a hub for research, energy and logistics.

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But it wouldn't just be an airport - the ambitious plans for a Thames Hub would bring together rail, freight logistics, aviation, energy and its transmission, flood protection as well as regional development.

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