OUR TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTIC ADVANTAGES
Indiana designated "Crossroads of America" as the official state motto in 1937. The state is the hub for several major interstate highways that criss-cross Indiana, connecting Hoosiers to the rest of the United States. Washington County is conveniently situated with access to these Interstates that deliver freight to large metropolitan areas including Louisville, Indianapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Lexington and St. Louis.
HIGHWAYS
Interstate I-65
(North - South Interstate in Eastern United States)
Interstate 65 delivers commercial vehicle traffic from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Major cities along the route include Gary Indiana (Chicago Area), Indianapolis, Louisville, Bowling Green, Nashville Tennessee, Birmingham and Mobile, Alabama along the Gulf of Mexico.
Interstate I-64
(East - West Interstate in Eastern United States)
Interstate 64 delivers vehicle traffic and commercial drivers to midwestern cities such as Greater St. Louis, Missouri, Louisville, Kentucky metropolitan area (including Washington County, Indiana) Lexington, Kentucky metro area, Charleston, West Virginia metro area and the Greater Richmond, Virginia area and many smaller towns along the route.
Indiana State Roads 37, 56, 60 and 135
Our Indiana state roads deliver travelers directly to regional areas including: New Albany, Jeffersonville, Bedford, Bloomington, Corydon, Scottsburg, Madison, Nashville, Jasper, French Lick, Vevay, Paoli, Fort Wayne and more locations across Indiana.
AIRPORTS
Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport / UPS Worldport Hub
Worldport is the world’s largest automated package handling facility. The sorting facility is 5.2 million square feet which is equivalent to 90 football fields. Louisville’s two parallel runways handle a constant arrival of aircraft each night – about one aircraft each minute during peak arrival times. During a sort, the UPS Worldport system processes 115 packages per second. A normal day is about two million packages, but that can more than double in the weeks before Christmas.
Worldport Statistics
- Sorts 416,000 packages per hour
- 125 Aircraft Parking Spaces
Indianapolis International Airport / FedEx Express National Hub
The 2.4-million-square-foot FedEx Express Indianapolis National Hub opened in 1988, and is the company’s second-largest cargo facility, trailing only the company’s SuperHub in Memphis. As of 2021, the facility employed about 700 full-time and 3,000 part-time workers, with the capability of sorting more than 2 million packages a day. FedEx’s presence in Indianapolis has helped the airport remain one of the top-10 largest cargo airports in the country. FedEx Express delivers freight and packages to more than 375 destinations over 220 countries across six continents each day
FedEx Express will move its heavy maintenance capability to its Indianapolis hub after the lease expires on their Los Angeles World Airports facility in June 2024.
FedEx Express National Hub Statistics
- Sorts 2.3 million packages per day
- 63 Airplane Parking Spaces
Salem Municipal Airport
The Salem Municipal Airport is an important factor in the long-range development plans for the City of Salem.
The City of Salem Airport has embarked on a 9-Phase development and renovation plan that is receiving federal matching funds to support and complete the project. Central to the development plan is to increase the current runway length from 2,738 feet to 5,000 feet.
The additional runway length will allow for light to medium sized aircraft and specifically corporate aircraft to land at the City of Salem Airport. The enhanced airport will be a key factor in facilitating corporate and industrial relocation to the Salem area. The enhanced airport will also allow the City of Salem to take advantage of the overcrowding at the Metropolitan Louisville area airports by providing an alternative to corporate air traffic.
In recent years the airport has received several grants from the FAA through the Airport Improvement Program. The Salem Municipal Airport Board of Aviation Commissioners (BOAC) is cooperating with local economic development groups within the city and county to improve the potential job growth associated with expansion of their airport to accommodate larger corporate aircraft.