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Delta Looks to Add Argentina Flight
Delta on June 10 applied with the Department of Transportation for permission to begin a flight to Buenos Aires, Argentina, from its hub in New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Pending the department’s approval, Delta would fly five times a week from December to April and drop to four for the rest of the year with the possibility of increasing frequencies depending on demand. The flight would complement Delta’s daily nonstop service from Atlanta to the Argentine capital. Delta has made developing its JFK hub a main component of its international expansion strategy. Chris Didier, Delta’s vice president of sales and government affairs for Latin America, said that reaching Latin America from New York is “an important part of this equation.” According to Mr. Didier, no nonstop flight currently links New York and Buenos Aires. Delta started service to Guyana this month and plans to begin a flight from JFK to Bogota, Colombia, in August. Delta now has 18 flights from JFK to the Latin America. For more information, visit www.delta.com. Kia Plant’s Logistics Provider to Create 600 Jobs A logistics company plans to build a new facility at a 95-acre plot near the Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia plant in West Point, creating 600 jobs.Glovis Georgia, a subsidiary of Seoul, Korea-based Glovis, will manage inventory and the flow of auto parts for the plant’s assembly line. Glovis has 16 offices worldwide and has provided logistics services for Kia Motors and its parent Hyundai since 2001. The plant, set to begin operations in December 2009, is the most recent of many manufacturers that have flocked to Georgia to supply Kia’s $1.2 billion automotive plant. The plant is expected produce 300,000 vehicles per year beginning in 2009 and create about 2,500 jobs. Government officials expect suppliers to bring even more.For more information, visit www.glovis.net.
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Automotive Carpet Manufacturer to Open First U.S. Plant in Columbus
The company is one of a number of automotive suppliers planning operations in Georgia since Seoul-based Kia Motors Corp. announced a $1.2 billion facility in West Point in 2007. DongNam is to create a new subsidiary, DNT Georgia, to run the plant, which is to employ about 350 people when opened in January 2009. Local economic development agencies helped DongNam find a location for the plant, including the Georgia Department of Economic Development and the Valley Partnership, a group designed to promote business development in several Alabama and Georgia counties along the states’ border. For more information, visit www.hallow.co.kr.
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Ford Sells Southside Plant to Atlanta Developer Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford Motor Co. completed the withdrawal of its manufacturing operations from Atlanta by selling its assembly plant in Hapeville to Jacoby Development Inc. June 12. Ford operated the plant from 1947, building a number of models there, most recently the Sable and Taurus. It stopped functioning in October 2006 as part of a series of 14 North American plant closures to be completed by 2012. Jacoby is best known for its redevelopment of a former steel mill into the Atlantic Station home, office and shopping venue on 17th Street, near Atlanta’s downtown. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Jacoby has announced plans to redevelop the Hapeville site into an office, retail, convention and hotel space, servicing travelers from nearby Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The former Ford site is close to where the airport plans to build its new international terminal by 2011, and the new development could be geared toward travelers from that facility.For more information, visit www.ford.com.
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Columbus Credit Processor Partners with Mexican Card Company
Troy Woods, TSYS’s president and CEO, said that the deal is representative of the company’s expanding global presence. TSYS currently operates in 76 countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. Globalcard’s General Director Juan Garay said that the agreement is to help his company increase services to its customers. “TSYS has been a major player in the Mexican card market for more than 15 years,” he said. “As we seek to expand our offerings to include better technology and greater service, partnering with … TSYS is critical to our long-term success.” For more information, visit www.tsys.com.
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