Market Access
Proximity to markets can make or break a business location. Georgia offers access to not only the 4th fastest growing state in the United States and the country's fastest-growing region, but it also allows 80% of the U.S. population to be reached within a 2-hour flight and 82% of the U.S. industrial market and 79% of the largest consumer markets to be accessed in 2 or less days by truck.
In Georgia, you can reach your markets, customers and suppliers by:
Georgia Access Routes
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Air
- Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport is the world's busiest passenger airport, with more than 2,000 daily flights all over the world and more than 900,000 tons of cargo handled annually.
- 261 airports statewide, 8 of which are regional (with flight connections to the region's major airports).
Highway
- Georgia has 20,000 miles of interstate, federal, and state highways, and more than 100 motor freight carriers serve the Atlanta area alone.
- Georgia has 35 scheduled carriers, 2,200 intrastate haulers, and 25,000 interstate truckers serving points throughout the state.
- Georgia maintains an advantage to carriers by offering the lowest fuel tax in the United States at 7.5¢/gallon
Rail
- Georgia has the Southeast's most extensive rail system, with 5,000 miles of main and branch-line track.
- CSX and Norfolk Southern Corp. operate approximately 140 daily trains in and out of Atlanta and from points throughout the eastern United States. Piggyback and container train services are available between the Savannah Containerport and Atlanta.
- Norfolk Southern Corp. and CSX Transportation provide intermodal rail service throughout the state.
Sea
- Two deepwater ports are located in Savannah and Brunswick.
- Georgia leads the South Atlantic area in cargo handled for foreign commerce with more than 90 steamship lines serving the state.
- Inland barge terminals in Bainbridge and Columbus offer low-cost alternatives to and from the Gulf of Mexico and Southeastern markets.
- Georgia Ports Authority has an international presence, with offices in Atlanta, Savannah, and Brunswick, Ga.; Chicago; New York; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Oslo, Sweden; Athens, Greece; and Tokyo, Japan.
