Greater Cincinnati

Comprised of 13 counties in 3 states – totaling 2 million population. Over 230,000,000sf of industrial buildings. Major League baseball, NFL Football. Active Freight hub via river, rail, truck and air.. Within 600 miles of 60% of North America’s population.

Air Freight

In 2000, airport rated one of top 5 in world. 13 air carriers with 600 daily departures to 118 U.S. cities and 18 daily international flights fly 22 million passengers/year. There are 7 major air freight carriers. CVG has 600 acres devoted to cargo, with 412,000 tons of air cargo passing through the airport in 2000.

Air Freight- just-in-time

DHL Worldwide occupies 150,000sf at the airport with plans for a 2005 expansion relocation. DHL employs 1000 people in Cincinnati and handles over 140,000 packages weighing 1 million pounds – nightly. 

 CSX, a major rail company operating in 23 states and 2 Canadian Provinces, is a major freight provider for Cincinnati – which sits squarely in the middle of the network. Cincinnati has a major freight yard, Locomotive and rail car repair facilities, and a major intermodal and transflo(rail to truck) facility. CSX transports over $150 billion in goods per year in Ohio (over 45 million tons). 

Norfolk & Southern, Cincinnati’s other major rail company, operates in 22 states and 1 Canadian Province, and like CSX,  has a system with Cincinnati in the geographic center. Cincinnati is a major rail yard and is cooperating with CSX in the orderly division of Conrail, another rail Carrier with a major yard in Cincinnati.

Almost 46 million tons pass through the port of Cincinnati each year, with 32 separate barge lines represented. This is more than passes through the Panama Canal. Nearly 200 barges per day carry roughly the equivalent of 11,500 truckloads of coal, oil and petroleum products, and grain.

Like any good distribution location, Cincinnati is intersected by several important interstate highways. The most important, I-75, the busiest trucking route in North America, stretches from Windsor, Ontario, to Key West, Fla. Three interstates (I-75, I-71 and I-74) connect the region and link it with the nation. There are 20 major metro areas less than a day’s drive away (400 miles). Trucks move an estimated $24.5 billion in commodities along I-75. I-71, which bisects Ohio diagonally, and connects the 3 major Ohio cities: Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland.