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Dallas/Fort Worth's GPS Builds Logistics Clout

DALLAS-Experts say globalization and corporate cost-effective plans are underwriting changes in the region, allowing it to emerge as North America's distribution center.

By Connie Gore | Updated on February 08, 2008

[IMGCAP(1)]DALLAS-Most, if not all, trade routes these days are leading to Dallas/Fort Worth, a fast-tracked beneficiary of globalization and corporate cost-effective strategies. A trio of experts says more gains will be made as companies adjust distribution networks to stay financially and competitively alive.

Dallas/Fort Worth is emerging as the distribution center of North America, contends Dr. Terrence Pohlen, associate professor and director of the Center for Logistics Education and Research at the University of North Texas in Denton. And the key to the global muscle is a transportation network with two intermodal facilities and more on the way. The region’s development dowry has been its strategic positioning at the confluence of north-south interstates 45 and 35 [the NAFTA Highway] and east-west interstates 30 and 20.

“As companies reconfigure their networks, they’re going to look at their transportation costs. Bringing it into Dallas, you can hit 70% of the country’s population in a two-day drive,” Pohlen tells GlobeSt.com. “You’re able to keep transportation costs down, but be responsive.” Rising fuel prices, a shortage of truck drivers and crumbling infrastructure elsewhere only aid Dallas/Fort Worth’s inland port campaign. He says research has shown that 94% of the rigs on the NAFTA Highway stop and do business in Dallas/Fort Worth.

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