The KC Smartport is also documented brilliantly in The Late,Great USA. The KC Smartport is a bilateral, multinational corporation established in Kansas City, Missouri. Formed through an agreement by American and Mexican politicians and businessmen, the KC Smartport connects highways and railways between the US & Mexico. In fact, they've even constructed an inland port owned and run by Mexico to help the transition.
The bigger picture is that Kansas City is a central hub for all of North America. The KC Smartport website touts the reasons why: Kansas City has the largest rail center in the United States by tonnage, more Foreign Trade Zone space than any other U.S. city (over 10,000 acres), is located at the intersection of three of the nation’s major interstate highways (I-35, I-70, I-29) and soon to be 4th - I-49; the Kansas City International Airport, which moves more air cargo each year than any air center in a six-state region; Kansas City is located on the largest navigable inland waterway (MO/MS River system), and is the heart of a rail corridor spanning coast to coast across the U.S. and extending from Canada to Mexico (NAFTA Railway). Their website used that term, not me.
There are a lot of trade corridors, aren't there? Well, it's actually worse than you may think because we're only just starting to scratch the surface. There are at least a dozen other corridors being constructed or proposed. We'll discuss them next.
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