Logistics: Kentucky’s Secret Weapon

1 Apr 2026

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Geography that enables Kentucky sites to ship goods to most of the world’s richest marketplace within a day not only keeps attracting manufacturing investment and jobs, it has given rise to a major business cluster unto itself: logistics.

In the modern competition among communities, states and countries for economic development, logistics is Kentucky’s secret leverage.

With more than 600 distribution facilities and a workforce of over 90,000, the commonwealth’s logistics expertise enables one-day delivery for manufacturers to two-thirds of the eastern U.S. — the most important market in the world. In today’s business world, efficient shipping — powered by advanced sorting systems, multimodal transportation options and optimized networks — is an increasingly valuable capability.

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