Cleveland Plus Transportation + Logistics Resources

Northeast Ohio transportation resources offers a variety of options, including , and nine other satellite airports, 16 Long Distance Northeast Ohio Freight Companies, three Class 1 Northeast Ohio Railroad Carriers and an assortment of Short Line Northeast Ohio Railroad Carriers and a variety of Northeast Ohio port and sea port facilities. Northeast Ohio ports are also Foreign Trade Zones, providing substantial savings for international shippers.

• Markets Proximity
• Airports & Air Freight
• Highway & Ground Freight
• Railroads
• Sea Ports
• Foreign Trade Zones

Northeast Ohio Access : Direct flights to cities with Fortune 500 headquarters : This information competitively positions Northeast Ohio to back-office or shared services firms considering expanding into a new location. In many cases, these firms’ customers are mainly large office or headquarters operations. This non-stop, low-cost air access to so many cities with existing or potential client pools can not only save valuable time, but more importantly provide especially-valuable cost-savings for these shared services companies. Combined with other Northeast Ohio assets, such as an inexpensive, plentiful and talented workforce in office-related occupations, provides these companies with a valuable competitive advantage over similar companies.

• Major airlines serving Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Akron-Canton Airport and Northeast Ohio include Air Canada, Airtran, America West, Continental, Delta, Frontier, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest, United, US Airways, USA 3000
• Cargo carriers include Continental, DHL, Federal Express, ServisAir GlobeGround, Southwest, UPS, United States Post Office, World Wide Flight Services
• Cleveland Hopkins Airport (CLE) offers over 320 daily nonstop flights to more than 80 destinations (Cleveland Hopkins Airport 2/07)
• Akron-Canton Airport (CAK) was the second fastest growing U.S. airport from according to the FAA

HIGHWAY

Northeast Ohio has 16 Long Distance trucking companies in 45 locations; including 2 dedicated Less-Than-Truckload carriers. (Source: Dun & Bradstreet 2006 data)

MARKET PROXIMITY

NORTHEAST OHIO RAILROADS

NORTHEAST OHIO SEA PORTS

• The Port of Cleveland has the best heavy lift capacity on the Great Lakes. Port facilities include nine berths and 6,500 linear feet of dock space. Docks are maintained at a full seaway depth, which is 27 feet. The docks have excellent connections to three major interstates (I-71, I-77, I-90), as well as the Norfolk Southern and CSX railroad. Four terminal operators use port facilities: Oglebay-Norton, Essroc, Kenmore Construction, Federal Marine Terminals.
• The Ports of Columbiana County only handles 15 million tons of cargo a year, the most on the Ohio River. The Ohio River accounts for over one-third of the maritime cargo moving inland in the United States each year, (approximately 275 million tons) and by comparison handles more cargo per year than the Panama Canal. Columbiana County's southern border has modern industrial parks and river ports on the Ohio. The port system of Columbiana County which provides year round international cargo service via the Ports of new Orleans and southwest Louisiana, feeds the industrial base of Northeast Ohio. When combined with the adjacent 10 county Port of Pittsburgh system, Columbiana County would constitute the 7th largest Port in the United States.

FOREIGN TRADE ZONES (40) and (181)

Foreign Trade Zones provide significant savings for global shippers, and are one reason that Ohio ranks number one in the US in number of exporting companies. Through the work of with Foreign Trade Zone 181, shippers can bring a bonded container from an East Coast port, clear Customs and return to the East Coast from Northeast Ohio faster than through the Port of New York.

• For FTZs in Columbiana, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, and Wayne counties, contact: NEOTEC ,
• For FTZs in Cuyahoga, Lorain, and Ashtabula counties, contact: Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority ,