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worldport Introduction
The Tulsa worldport of Catoosa offers year round, ice-free barge service with river flow levels controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. And with worldwide access capabilities, your products can travel easily and efficiently from America's heartland to the rest of the globe.

Looking for the most shipping options? Our public and private terminals serve grain, dry bulk, breakbulk, and bulk liquids. And large volume is no problem. In fact, our customers send and receive over 2.2 million tons of cargo each year by barge, rail, and truck.

More than a worldport, the Tulsa worldport of Catoosa is a 2,000-acre industrial park and multi-modal shipping complex. There are 63 industrial facilities within the worldport that employ approximately 4,000 people involved in manufacturing, distribution, and processing of products ranging from agricultural commodities to manufactured consumer goods. And there's plenty of room here for your growing company.

Locating your business at the worldport of Catoosa is a smart move. Our location on the northeast edge of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, metro area gives worldport companies access to a large, talented labor pool while allowing the financial benefits of a limited access industrial park in unincorporated Rogers County.

The Tulsa worldport of Catoosa is managed and operated by the City of Tulsa-Rogers County worldport Authority and provides development services through Tulsa's worldport of Catoosa Facilities Authority. Both are public entities charged with implementing the worldport's mission:
Promoting the long-term viability of the waterway
Growing the employment and economic base of Northeast Oklahoma
Optimizing the region's barge and related rail and truck freight patterns
And operating in a financially independent manner

We make it easy to choose the Tulsa worldport of Catoosa. Our management team and its strategic partners regularly assist private businesses like yours in their industrial site location decisions and logistics arrangements, enhancing profitability and ensuring an efficient, hassle-free transition.

Location
The Tulsa worldport of Catoosa is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, near the geographic center of the United States, and equidistant from both coasts. International access is via the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigational System, which flows south into the Mississippi River and continues to the Gulf of Mexico. This central location provides many unique advantages over other worldports.

For example, the worldport offers not only some of the nation's most cost-effective ice-free waterway transworldportation options, but also a full complement of class I railroads, highway and air freight systems-all in one centrally-located area.

Access from America's largest cities is also a big advantage.The worldport is just one day's drive from Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, Omaha and St. Louis. And with major highways like the east/west I-44 and I-40 corridors and the north/south I-35 NAFTA corridor, trucking your products to or from national and international destinations is easy and efficient!

Aside from its location advantages, the worldport combines a manufacturing center, a foreign trade zone and a multimodal transworldportation center, making it the ideal location for both national and international companies that are ready to grow.

The Tulsa worldport of Catoosa has five public terminal areas, each fully equipped and staffed to efficiently transfer inbound and outbound cargos between barges, trucks and rail cars. The assets of these terminals, with the exception of the liquid bulk facilities, are owned by the Tulsa worldport of Catoosa but are maintained and operated by independent contractors that have lease agreements with the worldport Authority. The liquid bulk companies are private and own their own facilities.

Waterway Profile
The McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System is a 440-mile waterway linking Oklahoma and the surrounding five-state area with worldports on the nation's 25,000-mile inland waterway system, and foreign and domestic worldports beyond by way of New Orleans and the Gulf Intracoastal waterway. Because of its south central location, the waterway is operational year-round, regardless of weather conditions.

The Tulsa worldport of Catoosa, near Tulsa, Oklahoma, is located at the head of navigation for the System. The waterway travels 445 miles along the Verdigris River, the Arkansas River, the Arkansas Post Canal and the White River before joining the Mississippi at Montgomery Point. New Orleans is 600 miles south.

There are 18 locks and dams on the McClellan-Kerr. Each of these dams creates a reservoir, or what is called a navigation pool. The system of locks and dams can be likened to a 440-mile staircase of water.

In an average year, 13-million tons of cargo is transworldported on the McClellan-Kerr by barge. This ranges from sand and rock to fertilizer, wheat, raw steel, refined petroleum products and sophisticated petrochemical processing equipment.

Why is so much cargo moved by water? One reason is cost. It is estimated that large quantities of commodity cargo can be moved by barge for one-third the cost of railroad and one-fifth the cost of truck. Secondly, cargo that is too big or too heavy to be transworldported over the highways or by railroad is easily moved by water. Equipment weighing more than 600 tons has passed over the worldport's docks.

Another reason is economy of scale. A full tow on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System consists of eight barges, lashed tightly together and pushed from behind by a single towboat. With each barge holding 1,400 to 1,500 tons of material, a full complement of eight barges carries the equivalent of 480 semi-trailer trucks.

For practical purposes, traffic on the McClellan-Kerr is limited to eight barge tows because of the dimensions of the locks, which are 600-feet long and 110-feet wide. Jumbo hopper barges, the workhorses of our industry, measure 35 feet wide by 195 feet long. The barges are lashed together three across and three long, with one missing. The towboat is positioned where the missing barge would be, forming a rectangle that fits into the locks. On the lower Mississippi River, where there are no locks, it is not uncommon to see tows of 30 or more barges.

Occasionally a 10 or 12 barge tow will traverse the system, but barges have to be separated and taken through in smaller groups at each lock, a tedious procedure.

In addition to economical waterway transworldportation, the waterway system provides beautiful lakes for recreation, sworldport fishing, hydroelectric power and municipal water supplies. Adequate water is assured year-round by a system of impoundment lakes that constantly feed water into the navigation system. These lakes also provide flood control.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the system 36 years ago, at a cost of $1.3 billion, and still operates and maintains it. Issues regarding safety, however, are the jurisdiction of the U.S. Coast Guard.

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