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Transportation

Runway at Jack Garland a challenge, opportunity

By IAN ROSS Hosting a 10,000-foot runway at North Bay’s Jack Garland Airport can be both a blessing and a curse for the city’s airport corporation.

5th Wheel Training rolling due south

By ADELLE LARMOUR The wheels are rolling southward for New Liskeard’s 5th Wheel Training Institute as they kick off the opening of their new facility in Warwick.

gateway targets growth areas

By ANDREW WAREING Northern Ontario Business Industry growth in mining and forestry has proven to be a boon to business for Gateway Helicopters in North Bay. Gateway Helicopters Ltd.

Aviation industry slow to take off (04/04)

By ANDREW WAREING Northern Ontario Business While most major centres in Northern Ontario are plotting economic strategies to spur airport development and growth in an effort to offset losses from reduced passenger air travel since 9/11, Thunder Bay's

Going my way? (11/04)

By IAN ROSS A reduction in flights to two northeastern Ontario airports has some frustrated business leaders pondering their transportation alternatives, which may not bode well for the immediate future of regional airline travel.

Into uncharted entrepreneurial territory (03/05)

By KELLY LOUISEIZE North American Charters 2000 has created significant turbulence by biting a hefty chunk out of the air carrier service sector. A few happy North American Charters 2000 passengers. But it didn't happen overnight.

Top 5 Exporters (07/05)

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Equipment supplier corners global contracts (07/05)

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Sudbury-based Mining Technologies International is spanning the globe in search of new opportunities. MTI's International business developments manager, Ed Sirkka.

Northern Academy feeds driver-hungry freight firms from across the province (10/05)

By ADELLE LARMOUR There is no industry that is better linked to how the economy is doing than trucking, says Jeff Smith, president of Northern Academy of Transportation Training in Greater Sudbury.

Bombardier wants province’s help (10/05)

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Thunder Bay community leaders have put forward a special package that could secure Bombardier’s long-term future in the North.