The US Dept of Commerce has approved expansion of the Port Freeport Foreign Trade Zone to include two sites along US Highway 59 in Fort Bend County, including the new CenterPoint Intermodal Centre - Houston Metro in Rosenberg.
A joint venture between Kansas City Southern (KCS) and Chicago-based CenterPoint Properties (CPP), the 630 acre CenterPoint Intermodal Centre is directly adjacent to the newly-opened Kansas City Southern Railway intermodal shipper facility, which will be used to receive, store and disburse by rail and truck containerised cargo across Texas and to other parts of the US and Mexico.
Currently under construction, the logistics park can accommodate more than seven million sq.ft of industrial space.
The second site to receive FTZ designation fronts the south side of US Highway 59 between FM 360 and Darst Road, and is owned by GBI International. With US offices in Houston and Irvine, California, GBI proposes to develop an international business centre on its 340 acres of land.
