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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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

Dwhitaker@ColumbusAirports.com

614 239 5028

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