The Columbus Regional Airport Authority continues to secure and invest significant funds for the air cargo development area at Rickenbacker International Airport. We are fortunate to have been designated to receive federal Military Airports Program (MAP) funds and are diligent in reserving our federal Airport Improvements Program (AIP) entitlement and discretionary grants for the purpose of air cargo development. To this end, more than $20 million in federal funds has been identified to facilitate commercial growth, with approximately $7 million already invested. We are in the process of programming the remaining funds with heavy focus on air cargo facilities as well as corresponding apron and hydrant fueling for commercial operators.

The Columbus Regional Airport Authority has been working on enhancing cargo operations through the development of Rickenbacker's Air Cargo Terminal Complex. Rickenbacker has four air cargo terminal buildings offering more than 212,800 square feet (19,769 square meters) of space with direct airside access.

Rickenbacker’s Air Cargo Terminal Complex is designed to serve freight forwarders, shippers, and others looking to capitalize on an airside, Foreign-Trade Zone location. The Air Cargo Terminal Complex is comprised of Air Cargo Terminals numbered 1 through 4 as well as facilities for FedEx and Forward Air. Click here to see map. If you are interested in additional industrial development opportunities, please contact Connie Tursic at (614) 239-3173 or click here to learn more about real estate in the Rickenbacker area.

Air Cargo Terminal No. 1 (67,200 square feet)

Tenants:

• Freight Expediters provides import/export logistics services and international trade consulting.
• HA Logistics, Inc. leads the way in providing seamless transportation and supply chain services for small and medium size growth companies.
• ICAT Logistics, Inc.is a domestic and international freight forwarder offering air and ocean transportation.
• Scanwell Logistics, Inc.is one of the largest Asia-based freight forwarding and logistics company with an extensive international network of offices located in China, South-east Asia, India, Canada, and the United States.
• The Dorn Companies is a wholesale floral distributor.

Air Cargo Terminal No. 2 (57,600 square feet)

Tenants:

• Team Transportation is the operating company of Team Worldwide® providing scheduled ground transportation for the Team® system. With late model equipment, Team Transportation® supports the Team® system with expedited coast-to-coast ground transportation, delivering customer’s shipment to destinations with the most expeditious routing and in the timeliest manner.

Air Cargo Terminal No. 3 (40,000 square feet)
       Air Side Facility

Tenants:

• Panalpina is one of the world’s leading providers of forwarding and logistics services, specializing in intercontinental air freight and ocean freight shipments and associated supply chain management solutions.
• Evergreen International Airlines specializes in charter and contract freighter operations while serving a variety of customers around the world.
• Worldwide Flight Services, (WFS) is the fastest growing independent global provider of aviation services, already supporting more than 150 of the world's scheduled and non-scheduled airlines both domestically and internationally. The company is responsible for more than 5,000 aircraft and over 1.3 billion pounds of air cargo annually. WFS' core lines of business include cargo handling and warehousing, ramp services, passenger services (including security), technical services and aircraft container leasing.
• Nippon Express USAis a worldwide leader in Logistics Design. Nippon offers an array of supply chain management solutions, readily providing services for land, sea, air transportation and distribution. Nippon's consignments range from large bulk load items to small, individual packages.

Air Cargo Terminal No. 4 (48,000 square feet)
       Air Side Facility

Our goal is to allow our airline partners the ability to operate from state-of-the-art facilities at an unparalleled geographic location without having to invest their own capital in those facilities. Please contact us how you can take advantage of this and move into a cargo terminal that:

• Is located airside within a Foreign-Trade Zone designation
• Is at a multi-modal global logistics hub servicing air, truck and rail
• Can be a single or multi-tenant facility
• Has a corresponding apron with the ability to accommodate 747 aircraft
• Has a 48,000 square foot (4,459 square - meters) clearspan
• Has an underground fuel system

FedEx World Service Center

FedEx operates a 275,000 square foot ground and air hub as well as a regional sorting and distribution center at Rickenbacker. This facility handles a combination of domestic and international cargo flights.

Forward Air Facility

Forward Air came to Rickenbacker in 1994, and expanded operations to include a 50,000 square foot airside facility in the fall of 2000. Forward Air was already servicing many clients out on the airfield, with their trucks directly loading and unloading the cargo air carriers, and this facility gave them an airside presence. Forward Air provides scheduled transportation of cargo between airports for its customers, which include domestic and international airlines, freight forwarders and integrated freight carriers.