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Belleville-based Ascent Global Logistics swaps PE firm owners

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Ascent Global Logistics operates a fleet of 25 USA Jet-branded cargo aircraft and 70 semi-trucks at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti.

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Ascent Global Logistics, a fast-growing expediter of freight based in Belleville, has been passed from one private equity firm to another.

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By Kurt Nagl

Kurt Nagl is a reporter covering manufacturing — particularly the automotive industry’s transition to electrification, the impact on the supply base and what it means for the state — as well as the business of law. Before joining Crain’s Detroit Business, he reported in Iraq and China and for various publications in Michigan.

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