Kansas City SmartPort is an organization formed to promote and enhance the Kansas City metro area’s status as America’s Inland Port Solution.
SmartPort has two main focuses:
1. To grow the area’s transportation industry by attracting businesses with significant transportation and logistics elements;
2. To make it cheaper, faster, more efficient, and secure for companies to move goods into, from, and through the Kansas City area.
SmartPort plays an active role in three crucial areas:
- Economic Development
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Business Services
Please see the attached June 6, 2005, Traffic World article “The Next Coast” which describes how Kansas City is bringing freight from Mexico and Asia directly to the U. S . Heartland.
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