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Exhibit 1
Exhibit 2
Exhibit 3
Export and Import Values, AllianceTexas, 2003-2024
Exhibit 4
Port of Entry: AllianceTexasImpact to the Texas Economy, 2024
Texas ports of entry accounted for more than $1 trillion in international trade in 2024.1 Texas has 32 official ports of entry – plus two intermodal logistics facilities – that serve as critical gateways to global trade. Each port whether an airport, land port or seaport serves many domestic and international economic activities across multiple industries. Each port also plays a distinctive role in the state’s transportation network and contributes to state and local economies.
AllianceTexas is the primary port of entry for the southwestern United States, bringing shipped global goods directly from the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Houston via intermodal rail containers. AllianceTexas connects to nearshoring in Mexico and accounts for more than half of all U.S. freight tonnage moving through Texas, meaning it will also play a significant role in advancing the Texas Connected Freight Corridors Project, addressing freight safety and mobility needs. AllianceTexas’ global logistics hub is one of the nation’s largest intermodal hubs, connecting air (Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport), road (I-35/SH-170) and rail (BNSF Intermodal Facility). 2
In 1989, Hillwood Development Co. (Hillwood) partnered with the Federal Aviation Administration and the city of Fort Worth to open Perot Field as the world’s first industrial airport. Encompassing the northern part of Fort Worth as well as the cities of Roanoke, Haslet, Westlake, Northlake, Justin, Argyle, Corral City and Denton, the AllianceTexas development has grown around the airport to include a 27,000-acre, master-planned and mixed-use community. AllianceTexas also includes the FedEx Southwest Regional Sort Hub and Amazon Air’s regional air hub among its 500-plus companies in residence. 3
AllianceTexas includes:
- 9,600 acres (part of the larger master-planned, mixed-use development).
- Direct access to State Highway 114 and Farm to Market 156.
- More than 500-acre multifaceted rail facility (owned and operated by BNSF) with direct access to West Coast ports.
- Direct access to BNSF and Union Pacific, both Class-I rail lines.
- Two runways, each at 11,000 feet in length, capable of handling large cargo aircraft such as the DC10, B747, B787 and AN124, with 24/7 air traffic control.
- General-purpose Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ #196) covering the entire port.
AllianceTexas, one of Texas’ two intermodal logistics facilities (along with Port San Antonio) allows businesses to take advantage of trade via all three transportation modes. Each facility has immediate access to an airport with a long runway, rail facilities and major highways. AllianceTexas includes Alliance Airport and access to Class I BNSF and UP rail lines. Perot Field is the world’s first industrial airport, home to the world’s largest cantilever aircraft hangar. AllianceTexas also houses several data centers that comprise 2.5 million square feet and are all powered by 100 percent renewable Texas wind energy. 4
Economic Contribution
Since its inception, AllianceTexas has received more than $16.3 billion in public and private investment. AllianceTexas’ resident companies now include 85 firms from Fortune 500 (U.S. public), Global 500 (international public) or Forbes’ list of top private companies in the United States. Recent companies to join the roster include MP Materials, Embraer, Gulfstream, Target, Henry Schein and Topgolf Callaway Brands. 5
Since 1990, AllianceTexas has paid more than $4.17 billion in property taxes cumulatively to the cities of Fort Worth, Haslet, Roanoke, Westlake, Northlake and Corral City; the counties of Tarrant and Denton; and the independent school districts of Northwest, Keller and Argyle. In 2024, the project contributed nearly $344 million in property taxes to these local entities. 6
Comptroller staff utilized the port’s sector employment headcount and the REMI (Regional Economic Models, Inc.) model to generate estimates of AllianceTexas Inland’s Port’s contributions to state-level employment, gross domestic product (GDP), output and disposable income. The Comptroller estimates that AllianceTexas contributed $16.3 billion to the Texas GDP and supported about 137,000 jobs (Exhibit 1).
| Category | Value |
|---|---|
| Total employment | 136,780 |
| Gross domestic product | $16.3 billion |
| Output | $30.4 billion |
| Disposable personal income | $9.6 |
Notes: “Total employment” refers to both direct and indirect employment; “Gross domestic product” refers to the total value of all final goods and services produced in Texas; “Output” refers to the total value of all goods and services (both final and intermediate) produced in Texas; “Disposable personal income” refers to post-income-tax income. All monetary amounts are in billions of current dollars.
U.S. Census Bureau: Economic Indicators Division, USA Trade Online; Regional Economic Models Inc. model for Texas; Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts analysis.
Cargo Activity
Perot Field saw a record year for air cargo in 2024, with over 628 million pounds of cargo arriving and departing AllianceTexas (Exhibit 2). 7 The BNSF Alliance Intermodal Facility, owned and operated by BNSF, had more than 1.1 million “lifts” in 2024 the placement on or removal of train cargo units performed. 8
| Fiscal Year | Total cargo weight (pounds) | Cargo-only aircrafts | Non-cargo aircrafts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 824,305,869 | 12,081 | 109,684 |
| 2023 | 703,267,913 | 10,224 | 111,778 |
| 2024 | 628,732,420 | 8,119 | 116,681 |
Sources: AllianceTexas
AllianceTexas Trade
AllianceTexas trade activity was valued at over $834.6 million in 2024, an increase of over 550.7 percent from 2016 or an increase of $833.2 million (Exhibit 3).
Export and Import Values, AllianceTexas, 2003-2024
Data for Exhibit 3
| Year | Export Value (in millions) | Imports Value (in millions) | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| 2004 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| 2005 | $0.01 | $0.00 | $0.01 |
| 2006 | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.04 |
| 2007 | $0.07 | $0.03 | $0.10 |
| 2008 | $0.04 | $0.00 | $0.04 |
| 2009 | $0.09 | $0.00 | $0.09 |
| 2010 | $0.01 | $0.00 | $0.01 |
| 2011 | $0.01 | $0.00 | $0.01 |
| 2012 | $0.04 | $0.00 | $0.04 |
| 2013 | $0.02 | $0.00 | $0.02 |
| 2014 | $0.01 | $0.00 | $0.01 |
| 2015 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| 2016 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| 2017 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| 2018 | $0.05 | $0.00 | $0.05 |
| 2019 | $0.03 | $0.00 | $0.03 |
| 2020 | $0.05 | $0.00 | $0.05 |
| 2021 | $0.02 | $0.00 | $0.02 |
| 2022 | $0.13 | $0.00 | $0.13 |
| 2023 | $0.16 | $0.00 | $0.17 |
| 2024 | $0.79 | $0.05 | $0.83 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau: Economic Indicators Division, USA Trade Online.
The top export commodities by value from AllianceTexas in 2024 were machinery and mechanical appliances ($324.8 million), followed by electric machinery and equipment ($276.6 million) and aircraft and spacecraft equipment ($116 million). These commodities accounted for 91 percent of the port’s total exports. Top imports to the port included special classification provisions ($46.2 million), machinery and mechanical appliances ($120,900) and electric machinery and equipment ($91,600) (Exhibit 4).
| Commodity | Export Value (in millions) |
|---|---|
| Machinery and Mechanical Appliances | $324.8 |
| Electric Machinery and Equipment | $276.6 |
| Aircraft and Spacecraft Equipment | $116.0 |
| Optical and Photographic Instruments | $31.8 |
| Inorganic Chemicals | $15.1 |
| Total All Commodities | $788.1 |
| Commodity | Import Value (in millions) |
|---|---|
| Special Classification Provisions | $46.2 |
| Machinery and Mechanical Appliances | $0.1 |
| Electric Machinery and Equipment | $0.1 |
| Misc. Base Metals | $0.1 |
| Optical and Photographic Instruments | $0.1 |
| Total All Commodities | $46.6 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau: Economic Indicators Division, USA Trade Online.
Each of Texas’ 32 official ports of entry serve as critical gateways to global trade. Whether accessible via air, land or sea, the ports serve a variety of domestic and international economic activity across multiple industries. an important role in the state’s transportation network, as each directly contributes to, and thus affects, the entire transportation system. Texas ports contribute to the overall strength and diversity of the Texas economy with an estimated GDP of $2.7 trillion, which would rank 8th globally in GDP if it were a nation.9
Endnotes
- U.S. Census Bureau: USA Trade Online U.S. Import and Export Merchandise trade statistics. ↳
- Email communication from Julie Fischer of AllianceTexas May 6, 2025. ↳
- Email communication from Julie Fischer of AllianceTexas May 6, 2025. ↳
- Email communication from Julie Fischer of AllianceTexas May 6, 2025. ↳
- Email communication from Julie Fischer of AllianceTexas May 6, 2025. ↳
- Email communication from Julie Fischer of AllianceTexas May 6, 2025. ↳
- Email communication from Julie Fischer of AllianceTexas May 6, 2025. ↳
- Email communication from Julie Fischer of AllianceTexas May 6, 2025. ↳
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, “State Annual Summary Statistics, Personal Income, GDP, Consumer Spending, Price Indexes, and employment” (Last visited July 10, 2025). ↳