NASCO is made up of public and private sector individuals, organizations, companies and public entities, institutes and centers of knowledge, as well as regulatory and governmental entities from the local, state, provincial and Federal governments of Mexico, the United States and Canada. According to their website, "the group’s efforts resulted in High Priority Corridor designated status for all 1,500 miles of I-35 from Laredo, Texas [sic TTC] to Duluth, MN in 1995 and inclusion of same within the National Highway System under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA)."
Also, they explain that the "NASCO Corridor represents the existing trade and transportation infrastructure roughly shadowing U.S. Interstate Highways 35, 29 and 94, and the connecting transportation infrastructure in Canada and Mexico critical to national and international trade. This includes major intermodal "inland ports" along the corridor and under development.
From the largest border crossing in North America (The Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada) and Manitoba, Canada, to the second largest border crossing of Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and South to the Mexican Ports of Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, the impressive, tri-national NASCO membership truly reflects the international scope of the Corridor and the regions it impacts.
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