Logistics



 

Competitive Advantages

  • A central location within a half-day’s drive of more than 20 major metropolitan markets, including: New York City; Philadelphia; Baltimore, MA; Washington, D.C.; Richmond, VA.; Atlanta; Nashville, TN; St. Louis; Kansas City; Chicago; Detroit; Cleveland; Cincinnati; Louisville, KY; and Toronto.
  • More than 11,000 total highway miles and is intersected by eight interstate highways – more than any other state in the nation
  • 4,165 miles of active railway tracks
  • Major facilities for air cargo and package services, including the world’s second-largest FedEx hub, located at Indianapolis International Airport
  • Three international airports – in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and Gary/Chicago
  • Three state-of-the art international maritime ports, each a Foreign Trade Zone, located on two inland waterways
  • The most efficient deep-water port on the Great Lakes, the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor.

Infrastructure Improvements

  • “Major Moves,” a comprehensive Indiana infrastructure investment program, which will fund more than $12 billion in state road and economic growth projects over a 10-year period without an increase in state gas or diesel taxes
  • Upgrades to major highways, including U.S 31, I-465, I-69, I-80/90 and others
  • More than $57.8 million in improvements to Gary Airport
  • Intermodal port financing authority
  • Construction of I-69, the NAFTA superhighway, through southwest Indiana.