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Centrally located on the eastern seaboard, North Carolina enjoys an exceptional transportation infrastructure. It has excellent rail service on over 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) of track with over 20 carriers, including Norfolk Southern, CSX and North Carolina Railroad Company. Several passenger trains provide daily service along six routes through the state.
North Carolina has 74 publicly-owned and nearly 300 privately-owned airports. Twelve have regularly scheduled airline service and four are international. The three major airports in the state are Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, and Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Raleigh. The 15,300 acre (6,192 hectare) North Carolina Global TransPark industrial-transportation complex in Kinston, with the state’s longest commercial runway and Foreign Trade Zone status, offers unique opportunities for businesses.
The state’s Intermodal Terminal Networks provide the cheapest inland transportation available to and from the state's two modern, deep water ports located in Wilmington and Morehead City. Costs are further reduced for the ports due to their Foreign Trade Zone status, as are Charlotte, Research Triangle Park and Greensboro.
North Carolina contains 78,000 miles (125,529 kilometers) of highway with five major interstates (highways I-26, I-40, I-77, I-85 and I-95) and two more under construction (I-73 and I-74), with plans to provide 96 percent of the state ten minute access to a four lane highway by 2006. With over 300 miles (483 kilometers) of coastline along the Atlantic Ocean, the state’s Department of Transportation has the largest ferry system on the east coast. NCDOT also developed the nation’s first "bicycling highway" system with more than 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) of bicycle highways crossing the state from the mountains to the coast and bicycle routes designated in dozens of cities.
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