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Rickenbacker Inland Port Columbus, Ohio, USA
September 19th, 2014
Lockbourne Air Force Base becomes …
…the Rickenbacker Inland Port
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From Military Airport to Inland Logistics Center
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Rickenbacker Inland Port Columbus, Ohio, USA
History
• With World War II raging, an air base was constructed near the village of Lockbourne, just outside of Columbus, Ohio
• The Lockbourne Army Air Base opened in June 1942 and initially
served as a B-17 and glider training facility • In 1974 the base was renamed Rickenbacker Air Force Base to
honor the memory of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker • Rickenbacker continued to serve as a Strategic Air Command base
through the Cold War • Eventually realigned to the Ohio Air National Guard, and through a
conversion process, has been turned over to civilian use
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Transformational Development
• With base transportation assets already in place, in 1979 the Franklin County Board of Commissioners voted to establish the Rickenbacker Port Authority to assist in conversion to civilian use
• The first large scale development occurred at Rickenbacker in 1985 with the establishment of an air cargo hub and bulk sorting facility for Flying Tigers
• To encourage further development, Rickenbacker established Foreign-Trade Zone No. 138 in 1987
• In 1993 Forward Air purchased their first site of what would become a multi-site operation at Rickenbacker that today is its North American trucking hub
• Throughout the 1990s the Rickenbacker area developed into a international logistics hub as companies recognized the value of its geography and infrastructure
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Transformational Development, cont.
• In the mid-90’s U.S. Customs relocated their Columbus Port offices to Rickenbacker
• The Columbus Municipal Airport Authority and Rickenbacker Port Authority, merged forming the new Columbus Regional Airport Authority (CRAA) effective January 1, 2003
• In 2008 the Norfolk Southern Corporation in collaboration with the
Columbus Regional Airport Authority opened the Rickenbacker Intermodal Rail Yard adjacent to the airport
• Meanwhile the surrounding Authority-owned land was reorganized into different industrial campuses collectively known as “Rickenbacker Global Logistics Park”
• In 2010 the Norfolk Southern Heartland Corridor opened, thereby
significantly increasing the speed of containerized freight moving in double-stack trains between the East Coast and the Midwest
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Creating future capacity
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Rail line and terminal investment
• Public Private
collaboration • Heartland Corridor
project - $150 million in Federal, State and Local investment
• $63 million in investment locally at Rickenbacker intermodal yard
Creating future capacity
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Roadway infrastructure keeping pace with growth
Airside capacity to grow
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RCS Air Cargo Terminal
Rickenbacker International Airport
Rickenbacker International Airport
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• Strategically located as an air cargo hub
• Geographically positioned with strong trucking networks to major US cities
• Experienced and efficient with cargo operations
• Lower cost than traditional gateways
Rickenbacker Global Logistics Park
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Rickenbacker Inland Port, Recent Successes
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• 6X a week frequency of Boeing 747-8 cargo freighters, each with 130 ton capacity fly direct from Hong Kong to Rickenbacker
• Connects Ohio to the world, and now Ohio Valley Exports flow directly to Asia via Cathay Pacific’s network.
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Rickenbacker Inland Port, Recent Successes
• Foreign-Trade Zone # 138 had back-to-back record years in 2012 and 2013
o In 2013 $6.3 billion in goods were entered in the Zone
o #7 of 177 active US zones
o Alternate Site Format was key to growth
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FTZ 138 - Total Admissions
Rickenbacker Inland Port, Keys to Success
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Geography
Original Strategic Vision
Outstanding Public and Political Support
Local Commodities
Situational Awareness
Continuing Leadership
Public / Private Partnership
Stakeholder Awareness
Resulting in: a self-sustaining and growing transportation & supply chain logistics cluster
Thank you for this opportunity to present.
David Whitaker
Vice President, Business Development & Communications
614 239 5028
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