Currently, the Lafayette County Industrial
Park is served by a Railway System, Highway System, Air Service, Motor Freight
and Parcel Service.
Railway
System
The local
rail service is provided by Mississippi Central Railroad. This system
connects with two regional networks of carriers. Burlington Northern
serves the Midwest, southeast, and northwest markets including Canada.
Norfolk Southern serves the southeast.
Highway
System
Due to
our central location, Lafayette County is within 400 miles of market areas
in eleven states. These states are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.
North-South State Routes 7, 9, 315 and 331.
East-West State Routes 6, 30, 314, 328 and 334.
State Route 6 connects with Interstate 55.
Air
Service
Local
airport:
4,700 foot runway
Commercial air:
Memphis, TN: 5 major carriers, 7 regional commuters
Tupelo, MS: 3 regional commuters
VOR, NDB, Localizer, Unicom Frequency 123.00, AWOS Frequency 132.725
Motor
Freight
FTL service
is available with any nationwide carrier.
LTL service is available from a minimum of the following carriers:
Yellow, Roadway, Consolidated, SAIA, Merchant Truck Line, M.S. Carriers,
Batesville Truck Line and Jones Truck Line.
Parcel
Service
United
Parcel Service, Federal Express, Airborne, Emory, United States Parcel Service
Express Mail and Purolator.
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