Look Beyond Your Borders
Trade Corridors
Ted HoughtonTexas Transportation Commission
Texas State Highway System largest road system with 80,000+ miles
The State of Texas
• Is #1 in Gross Domestic Product
• Has top business climate in nation (Site Selection Magazine 11/04)
Texas Trade Partners
1) Mexico– 45% with Texas– Chihuahua, Mexico largest state trading partner
2) South Korea
3) Taiwan
4) China
5) Japan
Texas/Mexico Trade Corridors
Corralitos Ranch cattle drive
Texas Trade Corridors
The Butterfield Trail Marker
Texas Trade Corridors
Del Rio Wool & Mohair Company
Texas Trade Corridors
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
Texas Trade Corridors
Texas Trade Corridors
Interstate Highway 35 in Austin, Texas
Trade Corridor
Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
Trade Corridor
The Alameda Corridor
Trade Corridor
The Alameda Corridor
Trade Corridor
Pacific Coast Water Ports
Texas Trade Corridors
Texas Gulf Water Ports
Texas Trade Corridors
Texas/Mexico Border Ports of Entry
SHIFTS IN TRADE ROUTES AFFECTING TEXAS
Panama Canal
Chicago
POLA / POLB
2009
• Expansion of All-water Routevia Panama Canal
• Expansion of Mexico Routing
• Expansion ofSan Pedro Bay Ports Routing
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MAJOR IMPORTER TRENDS• The concentration of trade between the US retail sector and North Asia has
provided a number of importers with market power
• Identified top retailers represent approximately 4.3% of GDP and employ 2.7% of US private employment, and nearly 20% of retail employment
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SOUTHCENTRAL
What Will It Take?
• Champions
• Look beyond your border all the way to ….
• Financing
• Public/Private Partnerships– Shipping companies– Railroads– Regional Mobility Authorities– State of Texas
