Supply Chain Access

Portsmouth, Ohio Bridge

Ohio's Enterprise Appalachia Region Delivers Easy Access to Supply Chain and Market

Ohio's Enterprise Region location and tax structure makes it cost effective for you to serve customers in North America and around the globe.

Entrepreneurs in Ohio Appalachia are ideally located to take advantage of development and commercial networks in Ohio and surrounding states. Ohio is within 600 miles of 60 percent of the U.S. population and 50 percent of the Canadian population, 62 percent of U.S. manufacturing plants, 59 percent of wholesale establishments and 63 percent of retail establishments. See this map for more details. Yet Ohio has not relied on geography alone to drive business location and expansion, but invested in world-class systems creating synergy between transportation, data and domestic and international export.

The infrastructure in Appalachia Ohio provides businesses access to regional, national and global markets. Two interstate highways and nine four-lane highways serve Appalachian Ohio. Commercial air service is available from airports surrounding the region at Port Columbus, the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport, Akron-Canton Regional Airport, Pittsburgh Airport and the Wood County and Huntington airports in West Virginia. CSX, Norfolk Southern and the Ohio Central Railroad provide rail service throughout the region. The Ohio River is a major freight artery and water source. The Ohio River and Lake Erie in northern Ohio handle more freight tonnage than the Panama Canal. Learn more »

It's no wonder Ohio is the only state in which exports have increased each year since 1998.