NASCO

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NASCO
Your Advocate for Trade Along the North-South
Central Corridor Zone
Tiffany Melvin Executive Director
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NASCO MAP
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Interstate Highways
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BNSF Rail Lines
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UP Rail Lines
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KCS Rail Lines
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Ferromex Rail Lines
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What is NASCO?

• NASCO is a tri-national, non-profit, trade and
  transportation coalition working to make
  international and domestic trade more efficient
  and secure along the existing network of
  transportation systems (including highways, rail,
  air, inland ports and deep-water ports) running
  north-south through the central U.S., Canada and
  Mexico.
• NASCO is a non-governmental agency that is
  encouraging the public and private sectors to
  work with a common voice to address critical
  national and international trade, transportation,
  security and environmental issues. 

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The NASCO Trade and Transportation Zone

• The NASCO transportation and trade zone
  encompasses Interstate Highways 35, 29 and 94,
  and the significant east/west connectors to those
  highways in the United States, Canada and
  Mexico. 
• NASCO works with all transportation and trade
  systems along this zone, including roads, rail,
  air, inland ports and deep sea ports.
• The Zone directly impacts the continental trade
  flow of North America. Membership includes public
  and private sector entities along the zone in
  Canada, the United States and Mexico.

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NASCOS SCOPE

• Tri-national NASCO membership truly reflects the
  international scope of the trade zone and the
  regions it impacts. Scope From the largest
  border crossing in North America (The Ambassador
  Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada)
  and Manitoba, Canada, to the second largest
  border crossing of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo
  Laredo, Mexico, extending to the deep water Ports
  of Manzanillo, and Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico.

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Who are NASCO members?

• Public sector
• Cities and counties/provinces along the trade
  zone
• State departments of transportation
• Port authorities
• Other government agencies
• Private sector
• Corporations with interests in trade/transportatio
  n along the trade zone.

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NASCO Executive Officers

• President
• City Councilman George Blackwood
• Kansas City, Missouri
• Regional V.P. of Canada
• Deputy Minister of Transportation
• Andrew Horosko
• Manitoba, Canada
• Regional V.P. of the US
• County Commissioner Jerry Garza
• Webb County, Texas

• Regional V.P. of Mexico
• Captain Hector Mora, Port Director
• Manzanillo, Mexico
• Secretary
• Senator Debbe Leftwich
• The State of Oklahoma
• Treasurer
• Dale Vander Schaaf, Iowa DOT
• The State of Iowa

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NASCO SuperCorridor Caucus
Caucus Co-Chair
Eddie Bernice Johnson - TX
Caucus Co-Chair Sam Graves - MO
Pete Sessions - TX
Kenny Marchant- TX
Henry Bonilla - TX
Henry Cuellar - TX

Tom Latham -IA
Kay Granger - TX
Emanuel Cleaver - MO
Michael Burgess - TX
Dennis Moore - KS
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What Does NASCO Do?

• NASCO encourages best practices and cooperation
  to boost economic activity and support needed
  infrastructure improvements, technological
  innovations and environmental initiatives within
  the trade zone through
• Strategic planning
• Coordination
• Advocacy
• Education
• NASCOs goals include the development of safe and
  secure tracking processes, data aggregation and
  logistics systems to enhance Homeland Security
  while also facilitating tri-national trade.

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NASCO Programs

• NAFTRACS NASCO is developing a technology pilot
  project designed to enhance security and
  efficiency of transportation, trade processing
  and logistics systems.
• NAIPN Developing an active inland port network
  along our corridor to specifically alleviate
  congestion at maritime ports and our nations
  borders.
• Educational Consortium Bringing together
  institutions that play a vital role in
  transportation and providing critical studies and
  solutions to the ever changing needs and
  requirements the NASCO Zone continues to face.
• Partnership with the EPA (Blue Skyways
  Collaborative) Principal goal is to improve air
  quality and reduce air pollution emissions
  through new technology, market forces, promotion
  of the use of alternative fuels, and economic
  incentives.

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NAFTRACS

• North American Facilitation of Transportation,
  Trade,
• Reduced Congestion and Security (NAFTRACS)
• Three-phase pilot project designed to focus on
  business processes and information as freight is
  transported from sellers to buyers.
• Creates a partnership between businesses and
  local, state/ provincial, and federal
  governments, while fostering cooperation among
  the same entities.
• The pilot project will use actual freight
  shipments moving through the NASCO trade zone and
  will engage voluntary industry participants who
  will allow actual freight shipments to be tracked
  and monitored for location and condition of
  freight.
• Various federal and state DOT participants will
  have access to the necessary resulting
  information.

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NAIPN

• North American Inland Port Network
• A sub-committee of NASCO, the NAIPN has been
  tasked with developing an active inland port
  network along our trade zone to specifically
  alleviate congestion at maritime ports and our
  nations borders. 
• The NAIPN envisions an integrated, efficient and
  secure network of inland ports specializing in
  the transportation of containerized cargo in
  North America.
• The main guiding principal of the NAIPN is to
  develop logistics systems that enhance global
  security, but at the same time do not impede the
  cost-effective and efficient flow of goods.  
• A comprehensive NAIPN Web site has been developed
  (under the NASCO site) to raise the awareness of
  individual inland ports along the zone and bring
  attention to NAIPN.

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Blue Skyways Collaborative
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• Join us for the 2nd Annual IPANA
  Conference!
• October 11-12, 2006
• The Menger Hotel
• San Antonio, Texas
• Learn the latest on intermodal trends,
  cargo security, new logistics corridors, port
  technology and the rail industry
• For more information visit www.freetradealliance.o
  rg/IPANA

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SAVE THE DATE NASCO Conference 2007

• Mark your calendars NOW!
• May 30 - June 1, 2007
• NASCO Conference 2007
• Worthington Renaissance Hotel
• Fort Worth, Texas

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NASCO Contact Information

• Tiffany Melvin
• Executive Director
• NASCO
• 901 Main Street
• Suite 4400
• Dallas, TX 75202
• 214-744-1042
• Tiffany_at_nascocorridor.com
• www.nascocorridor.com

• Monterrey, Mexico Office
• Ing. J. Francisco Martinez Escamilla
• Rafael J. Verger 1899-3
• Col.Obispado Monterrey, N.L.
• Mexico 64060
• Tel [phone]
• 52 (81) 8114-7120
• Francisco.martinez_at_alinea.com.mx

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Transportation is key to the
productivity, and therefore the success, of
virtually every business in America. Congestion
and delay not only waste our time as individuals,
they also burden our businesses and our entire
economy with inefficiency and higher
costs.Former Secretary of Transportation
Norman Y. Mineta