NTX Magazine Volume 2 | Page 56

Industry Spotlight Logistics
use community in north Fort Worth.
Located along Interstate 35W with two
Class 1 rail lines and Fort Worth Alliance Airport in its midst, it’s a shipper’s
dream, said Steve Boecking, vice president of Hillwood Properties. These
“multimodal transportation options”
make it cost effective and efficient for
businesses to ship through Alliance,
which is FTZ No. 196.
Asian importers typically ship
containers to the California seaports of
Long Beach or Los Angeles, and from
there, send them by rail to BNSF Railway’s Intermodal Hub at Alliance.
North Texas may not have the
fortune of a navigable body of water,
but that didn’t stop the region from
becoming an important trade hub on
a global scale.

UPS hub at DFW Airport

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