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Metro CEO, COO resign, effective immediately
Paul Wiedefeld, Joe Leader resign immediately
Paul J. Wiedefeld, general manager and CEO of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, is stepping aside, effective immediately instead of June 30, as he had planned, according to a statement he released Monday night. “I have decided to make my retirement effective today to provide a more timely transition to Interim General Manager Andy
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Bowman Consulting Group acquires Pa. firm for $18M
Acquisition is Bowman's second in 2022
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Reston-based Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. has closed its $18.5 million acquisition of Pennsylvania-based transportation engineering and planning firm McMahon Associates Inc., the company announced May 5. The sale was financed through a combination of cash, seller notes and common stock, Bowman spokesperson Carolyn Artman said. McMahon focuses on transportation projects and has more than 200
Metro announces next general manager, CEO
Clarke currently leads Austin, Texas' metro system
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Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s new general manager and CEO is Randy Clarke, the current president and CEO of Austin, Texas’ Capital Metro. The board of the authority, which runs Metrorail and Metrobus, announced Tuesday that Clarke will assume the position in late summer. Metro’s current general manager and CEO, Paul J. Wiedefeld, announced in
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Dulles adds United direct flights to Amman, Jordan
Middle Eastern capital is 39th with direct link to D.C. region
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United Airlines has added three weekly nonstop flights from Washington Dulles International Airport to Jordan’s capital city, Amman. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority announced the addition Friday, though the inaugural flight occurred a day earlier. “Amman, Jordan, is the 39th global capital city to be directly connected to the Washington, D.C., region via Dulles International
Boeing plans global HQ move to Arlington
World's third-largest defense contractor credits Youngkin, Warner
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Boeing Co., the world’s third-largest defense contractor, is planning to move its global headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, the company announced Thursday. The aerospace and defense company, which employs more than 141,500 people worldwide, has operations in more than 65 countries and will be the largest defense contractor headquartered in Virginia. Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman
Setting a course
Businesses, port seek paths around supply chain backlogs and logjams
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Each week, MDV SpartanNash LLC, the nation’s leading supplier for overseas U.S. military commissaries and exchanges, loads 100 to 200 containers filled with everything from peanut butter to clothing aboard steamships bound for Europe, Africa, Bahrain, Kuwait and Honduras, as well as Puerto Rico and Guantanamo Bay. “In places like Guantanamo Bay and Bahrain, there’s
Turning on a dime
Driver shortage affecting trucking industry
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Though many American consumers may not think about it much, trucks move just about everything they buy, use, eat, drink and wear. The U.S. trucking industry hauled 72.5% of all freight transported nationwide in 2019, according to the Arlington-based American Trucking Associations. Why should anybody care? Because the ranks of truckers are shrinking: Last year,
Digging in
An update on statewide road projects
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As the largest highway construction project in state history, the $3.8 billion Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion is without question the most notable road project currently underway in Virginia. Construction began in October 2020, and workers made a lot of progress last year, remaining on track to reach the Virginia Department of Transportation’s goal of a
Executive insights
Maritime, logistics leaders offer views on business
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Leaders from Virginia’s maritime and logistics industries share their thoughts about where their sectors stand amid labor shortages, growing cargo volumes and the pandemic’s lingering impacts. Devon C. Anders President, InterChange Group Inc.; Chair, Virginia Maritime Association Valley Logistics Chapter Harrisonburg VB: How is your company hiring and retaining staff? Anders: We have intensified through
Amazon be nimble, Amazon be quick
E-commerce giant continues stretch across state
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When it comes to building warehouses and distribution centers, one company has sought out Virginia over and over again: Amazon.com Inc. The e-commerce giant began opening facilities in Virginia in 2006 and since then has opened more than 30 facilities in the commonwealth, with more on the way as it seeks to shrink the time