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Fort Worth’s Major Industrial Parks AllianceTexas – 17,000 acres; Foreign Trade Zone and Customs Port of Entry Carter Distribution Center – 800 acres Carter Industrial Park – 950 acres CentrePort Business Park – 1,300 acres; Foreign Trade Zone Fossil Creek – 1,150 acres; Foreign Trade Zone Mark IV Industrial Park – 1,000 acres Mercantile Center – 1,500 acres; Foreign Trade Zone Railhead Industrial Park – 633 acres; Foreign Trade Zone Riverbend Business Park – 97 acres; Foreign Trade Zone A transportation super hub that keeps people and goods moving Four airports, a substantial rail network and an extensive highway system ensure that accessibility to any Fort Worth location in 30 minutes or less is a well-planned reality. The need to move goods, materials and people quickly and efficiently is a prerequisite for business. Fort Worth has shown it is uniquely positioned to meet these needs both now and well into the future. Whether you are here for business or pleasure, or moving goods to their final destination, you will find that local leaders paid attention to details when they planned Fort Worth’s future as a transportation super hub. Modern airports give Fort Worth a global address A variety of aviation service providers combine to make Fort Worth one of the nation’s most active inland ports. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport handles 60 percent of the cargo shipped in Texas and creates $14.3 billion in revenue for North Texas annually. In addition, 57 million passengers pass through Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s gates each year, making it the 4th busiest airport in the world. The world’s first industrial airport, Fort Worth Alliance Airport, is located in north Fort Worth and offers a range of amenities for global customers, including an on-site U.S. Customs Clearance and Centralized Examination Station and the top- ranked Foreign Trade Zone in the U.S. in terms of the value of foreign goods admitted. Logistics Fort Worth

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Fort Worth’s Major Industrial Parks

AllianceTexas – 17,000 acres; Foreign Trade Zone and Customs Port of Entry

Carter Distribution Center – 800 acres

Carter Industrial Park – 950 acres

CentrePort Business Park – 1,300 acres; Foreign Trade Zone

Fossil Creek – 1,150 acres; Foreign Trade Zone

Mark IV Industrial Park – 1,000 acres

Mercantile Center – 1,500 acres; Foreign Trade Zone

Railhead Industrial Park – 633 acres; Foreign Trade Zone

Riverbend Business Park – 97 acres; Foreign Trade Zone

A transportation super hub that keeps people and goods movingFour airports, a substantial rail network and an extensive highway system ensure that accessibility to any Fort Worth location in 30 minutes or less is a well-planned reality.

The need to move goods, materials and people quickly and efficiently is a prerequisite for business. Fort Worth has shown it is uniquely positioned to meet these needs both now and well into the future.

Whether you are here for business or pleasure, or moving goods to their final destination, you will find that local leaders paid attention to details when they planned Fort Worth’s future as a transportation super hub.

Modern airports give Fort Worth a global address

A variety of aviation service providers combine to make Fort Worth one of the nation’s most active inland ports.

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport handles 60 percent of the cargo shipped in Texas and creates $14.3 billion in revenue for North Texas annually. In addition, 57 million passengers pass through Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s gates each year, making it the 4th busiest airport in the world.

The world’s first industrial airport, Fort Worth Alliance Airport, is located in north Fort Worth and offers a range of amenities for global customers, including an on-site U.S. Customs Clearance and Centralized Examination Station and the top-ranked Foreign Trade Zone in the U.S. in terms of the value of foreign goods admitted.

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Notable Facts:

•FortWorthAllianceAirportconsecutively ranks #1 among U.S. generalpurposeForeignTradeZonesin foreign merchandise admitted to the zone.

•Dallas/FortWorthInternationalAirportoffers145dailydomestic,non-stopflightsand48dailyinternational flights.

•I-35bisectsDallasandFortWorth.JustsouthoftheMetroplex,theInterstatesplitsintoanEastsectionthroughDallasandaWestsectionthroughFortWorth.TheInterstate reconnects just north of the Metroplex.

•FedExExpress,thecargoairlinedivisionofFedExCorporation,houses its Southwest Regional Sort HubatFortWorthAllianceAirport.

Rounding out the area’s airports are Fort Worth Meacham International, a general aviation facility established in 1925 and located just five miles from downtown Fort Worth, and Spinks Airport, a general aviation facility opened in 1988 just 13 miles south of downtown Fort Worth. Both airports offer full-service FBOs, flight schools and aviation maintenance facilities.

Ground transportation and easy access provide choices

An expansive rail network and major interstates put Fort Worth on the map when it comes to logistics and distribution.

BNSF Railway, which is headquartered in Fort Worth, is one of the nation’s largest freight railroad companies and has a $100-million, state-of-the-art intermodal hub at Fort Worth Alliance Airport. Union Pacific also has a significant presence in Fort Worth. Its location at Centennial Rail Yard is one of the largest freight classification facilities in the nation. Just south of downtown is Tower 55, one of the busiest railroad intersections in the United States. Each day, nearly 100 trains move through Tower 55, transporting needed goods between the West Coast, the Midwest, the Gulf Coast, the Southeast, Canada and Mexico.

The Trinity Railway Express (TRE) provides commuter rail service between Fort Worth and Dallas in cooperation with the Fort Worth Transportation Authority (The T) and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), the region’s public transit services. The TRE serves 180,000 riders monthly from links at Fort Worth, Dallas and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

Fort Worth offers easy access to a number of major interstate highways, including I-20, I-30, I-45 and I-35W, a major north-south route and North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) corridor that links the United States to Mexico and Canada.

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For more information, contact:FortWorthChamberofCommerceP: 817.338.3392E: [email protected]

To find out more about why FortWorthisagreatplace to live and work, visit www.fortworthchamber.com/eco/.

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