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.
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 sixty-eight-thousand people employed and busy in the Indiana transportation industry.
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.
| Major Employers in Logistics and Transportation |
| Peyton's Northern |
1,185
|
| Norfolk Southern Corp. |
983
|
| Wal-Mart Distribution Center |
450
|
| Sirva |
446
|
| Supervalu-FW Division |
400
|
| Sweetwater Sound |
355
|
| UPS |
345
|
| Specialized Transportation Inc. |
264
|
| CSX Corp. |
200
|
| For a more extensive listing of transportation & logistics employers with additional detail, please visit our Business & Industry page |
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.
| Annual Average Wages By Occupation, 2008 |
|
NEI
|
U.S.
|
NEI/U.S.
|
|
Shipping, Receiving & Traffic Clerks
|
$28,717
|
$29,180
|
98.4%
|
| Transportation and Material Moving |
$31,409
|
$31,450
|
99.9%
|
|
First-Line Supervisors/Managers- Hand
|
$41,198
|
$44,380
|
92.8%
|
|
First-Line Supervisors/Managers- Motorized
|
$50,106
|
$53,960
|
92.9%
|
|
Truck Drivers, Heavy & Tractor Trailer
|
$40,446
|
$38,720
|
104.5%
|
| Truck Drivers, Light or Delivery Services |
$28,866
|
$30,260
|
95.4%
|
|
Industrial Truck & Trailer Operators
|
$30,222
|
$30,750
|
98.3%
|
|
Laborers & Freight, Stock & Material Movers, Hand
|
$24,871
|
$24,690
|
100.7%
|
|
Machine Feeders & Offbearers
|
$28,208
|
$26,800
|
105.3%
|
|
Packers & Packagers, Hand
|
$21,920
|
$21,100
|
103.9%
|
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, OES and Indiana DWD
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.
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Indiana remains the only state in the nation with a fully-funded 10-year transportation and infrastructure plan. The northeast Indiana region is scheduled to receive $659,959,927, or approximately 17.5 percent of the Major Moves money. The major new construction projects include plans for additional lanes on Interstate 69 (north Allen County and at US 20 in Steuben County), and Interstate 469 to US 24 (to the Ohio state line). Major preservation or resurfacing projects are planned for practically every northeast Indiana county.*
*Source: Indiana Department of Transportation
Northeast Indiana is served by two major interstate highways-one going north-south-I-69-and the other going east and west-Interstate 80/90, also known as the Indiana Toll Road. The two interstate highways intersect near Fremont, Indiana, near the Michigan and Ohio state lines in the extreme northeast corner of the state. Interstate 69 is 355 miles in length and runs from Indianapolis northeast to the Canadian border at Port Huron, Michigan. In the 10-county region of northeast Indiana, I-69 traverses nearly 100 miles-from exit 73 in Warren in Huntington County in the south to exit 157 at the Michigan state line in the north. The Indiana Toll Road is a tolled highway running east-west across the northernmost part of Indiana. It is a part of the New York-Chicago Toll Road system, and is advertised as the "Main Street of the Midwest."
Please contact the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership for more information on how your business can join our transportation and logistics industry in northeast Indiana.