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The Memphis Regional Freight Infrastructure Plan (Plan) was created in 2008–09 on behalf of The Greater Memphis Chamber (Chamber) and its members. The goal of this plan was to identify the capabilities and capacities of the region’s current freight infrastructure systems and recommend strategic projects that have the most potential to integrate these systems with emerging global supply-chain requirements. With the world's largest air-cargo airport, service by five Class I railroads, 490 trucking terminals, the nation's fourth-largest inland water port, and 11 Interstate and U.S.-designated highways, the region has emerged as a national distribution hub with almost 160 million square feet of warehouse space, and 42,000 acres of industrial parks. This Plan helps prioritize future regional freight infrastructure investments and funding requests to ensure that Memphis remains a dominant national transportation hub. It complements a number of prior studies that guided logistics-based development in the region, namely "The Memphis Economic Development Plan" and "From America’s Distribution Center to America’s Aerotropolis," which provided a framework for airport-based development. These two reports, together with the recommendations from this Plan, form an integrated framework to assist the Chamber, and its stakeholders, in fulfilling its economic development mission and exploit the region's attractiveness as an international logistics hub.
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