Transportation & Logistics
NAICS 423, 424, 481, 482, 484, 488, 494, 541614
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Northeast Indiana transportation and logistics are a huge part of our region's economic growth and stability. The Indiana transportation industry supports growing Indiana business ventures and their ever-present need to take messages and products to the rest of the Nation. A region where need and respect for Indiana's transportation industry runs high, northeast Indiana is the perfect location for existing Indiana business to grow and new companies to find their place.
Indiana Transportation Industry: Successes As home to numerous Indiana businesses in the defense, bioscience, food processing and advanced manufacturing industries, often choosing Northeast Indiana for its proximity to major metros, we offer an extensive customer base for Indiana transportation companies. The existing Indiana business needs of the northeast region keep over fifty-seven-thousand people employed and busy in the Indiana transportation industry.
Indiana Transportation Industry: Work Indiana business in Northeast Indiana's transportation and logistics industry includes major players such as CWC Logistics, Peyton's Northern (Kroger), Norfolk Southern and Triple Crown, as well as distribution centers for Wal-Mart and Dollar General. These Indiana transportation and logistics leaders, as well as many others, offer assets to Northeast Indiana that include both domestic and international air cargo, rail transport, support activities for transportation and motor freight for household, business and specialty items.
Indiana Transportation Industry: Reach More than 100 trucking companies serve northeast Indiana business. Our rail lines, which include CSX, Indiana Northeast Railroad and Wabash Central Railroad, reach across the nation. The Fort Wayne International Airport, which hosts an airport strip so long that the space shuttle can safely land, provides scheduled air freight connections to more than forty-five American cities. And, companies like Triple Crown, an affiliate of Norfolk Southern Corporation, provide bimodal truckload transportation services to Indiana business, as well as customers throughout the eastern two-thirds of the United States and Canada.
Already occupied by many large transportation providers, northeast Indiana maintains strong ties to the transportation industry and continues to encourage the growth of Indiana business in transportation.
Please contact the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership for more information on how your business can join our transportation and logistics industry in northeast Indiana.