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Japan makes move into North Dakota grain trade

Tony Flagg, president of United Grain Corp., the Mitsui subsidiary that’s building the Bucyrus shuttle elevator, said the Bucyrus project is part of a $55 million investment by Mitsui to get into the front end of the wheat supply. It’s also building shuttle elevators at Conrad and Culbertson, both in Montana, to complement one [...]

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Coal exports would help struggling Northwest economy

The following opinion piece was written by John Mohlis, executive secretary of the Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council; Robert Westerman from IBEW Local Union 932; Herb Krohn, Washington state legislative director of the United Transportation Union; and Mike Elliott, chairman of the Washington state legislative board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and [...]

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