Distance to 5 Nearest Metro Areas:

I-95 - CT Coastline, connects New York to New Haven to Providence to Boston.

I-91 - Center of CT, connects New Haven to Hartford to Springfield.

I-84 - Horizontal center of CT, connects NY/NJ to Hartford to Boston.

Merritt Parkway - Runs parallel with I-95, connects New York to New Haven to Hartford (No Commercial Vehicles Allowed.)

State Routes 7, 8, 9 - North/South highways connecting I-95 to other state interstates.

Highway Improvements:
The I-95 New Haven Harbor program is expected to be completed in 2015 when a new 10-lane I-95 bridge is finished. Construction has already begun on the project. The project also includes a new commuter rail station (completed) and new lanes at the merge of I-91 and I-95.

Metro-North - Service from New Haven to New York (Grand Central Station.) Travel time from New Haven to Grand Central is 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Stations in Connecticut's Central Coast include: Southport, Fairfield, Bridgeport, Stratford, Derby, Ansonia, Milford, New Haven - Union Station and New Haven - State Street.
New stations are planned over next few years in Fairfield, Orange and West Haven.

Shoreline East - Commuter service from Eastern Connecticut Shoreline to New Haven.

Amtrak - New Haven's Union Station is one of Amtrak's busiest terminals in the country providing direct service to Boston, New York and Washington DC. The nation's only high-speed train, the Acela Express, makes daily stops in New Haven.

• Acela Express (High-Speed Rail) - Service to Boston (2 hrs.) New York (1 hr.) Philadelphia and Washington DC at speeds of 150 mph.
• Regional Service - Service to Boston, Springfield, MA, Providence, New York, Washington and Newport News, VA.
• Vermonter Service - Rail service to St. Albans and Burlington, VT and Springfield, MA continuing to Washington DC.

CSX provides freight rail service in Connecticut's Central Coast.

Materials shipped in the state include: iron/steel, construction materials, fly ash and automobiles. CSX serves 50 industries in Connecticut.

They operate a rail-to-truck metals distribution facility and a rail-to-truck trans-loading facility in New Haven.

There are 2 commercial airports in Connecticut, Bradley International Airport (north of Hartford,) a 45 minute drive from Connecticut's Central Coast and Tweed Airport in New Haven. In addition to airports in Westchester, NY and Providence, RI Connecticut's Central Coast is close to major airports in Boston and New York.

• JFK International Airport - 1 hr. 10 min.
• Newark Liberty International Airport (NJ) - 1 hr. 24 min.
• Boston's Logan International Airport - 2 hr. 15 min.
• New York LaGuardia Airport - 1 hr.
• Stewart Intl. Airport (60 miles north of NYC) - 1 hr. 33 min.
• Westchester County Airport (NY) - 41 min.
• Providence Airport (RI) - 1 hr. 30 min.

Bradley International Airport –
Bradley provides convenience and easy parking alongside air service to multiple destinations. Bradley ranks 56th among U.S. airports in the number of passengers and 30th in tonnage of freight. The airport provides nonstop service to 28 destinations including service to Puerto Rico and Canada.

Destinations include: Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago-Midway, Chicago-O'Hare, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas-Fort Worth, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, Nashville, New York-Kennedy, Newark, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Raleigh-Durham, Rochester, San Juan, Tampa, Toronto, Washington DC-Dulles, Washington DC-Reagan National and West Palm Beach.

Tweed New Haven Regional Airport –
US Airways operates flights from New Haven to Philadelphia daily. There are 5 departures to
Philadelphia each day.

The towns surrounding the airport settled long-time disputes in March 2009 and agreed to the expansion of runway safety zones and terminal improvements. There is now a united commitment to attract new airline business to the airport.

General Aviation Airports in Connecticut's Central Coast –
Tweed New Haven and Igor Sikorsky Memorial in Stratford.

Connecticut boasts three deep-water seaports, in New London, New Haven and Bridgeport. Together these ports can handle 19 million short tons of freight per year.

• 80-90% of the cargo is petroleum
• 2 companies dealing in dry goods
• 15 new acres coming in to use
• 2007, 10 million tons of cargo moved through the port
• 366-acre port district - not all used for this use
• Tier 2 port in terms of Homeland Security registration
• Army Corps of Engineers will dredge to 35 feet, future goal of 42 feet
• Rail Spur

Bridgeport Port Authority
More than 5 million tons of goods flow into Bridgeport's harbors, the second most active port in the state. They include fruit, coal, sand, gravel, stone, gasoline, and oil. Foreign Trade Zone 76

Port Elizabeth, New Jersey and its 54 container cranes is only 1 hour and 20 minutes from Connecticut's Central Coast.

Below is a list of freight trucking carriers operating in Connecticut's Central Coast:

Company	Phone
ABF Freight System Inc.	203-375-4623
A Dule Pyle Inc.	860-620-9393
A&L Russo Inc.	203-730-1832
AMA Transportation	203-234-6287
A Posta Transfer Inc.	203-385-1031
Aaron Transportation Services	203-624-9915
Andreucci Trucking Inc.	203-239-9557
Astra Express	203-634-3470
Bunting's Express Inc.	203-888-4538
C&V Trucking	203-624-0449
Challenger Freightways	203-238-2483
Con-way Central Express	203-235-3104
Con-way Freight	203-330-8601
Cottrell	203-874-5309
Crisanti & Sons Transport	203-239-5037
Day & Ross Inc.	203-878-5709
Dubenko	203-327-7400
Estes Express Lines	203-234-9076
FedEx Freight	203-795-5939
Field View Farm Transportation	203-795-0571
Jostal Corp.	203-854-1650
Marshall's Express Inc.	203-325-3745
Meyer Wm B Inc.	203-375-5801
Mitchell's Express Inc.	203-269-8734
Murphy Moving & Storage Inc.	203-865-3181
Nationwide Southeast Inc.	203-393-0660
New England Motor Freight Inc.	203-634-7869
New Penn Motor Express Inc.	860-621-7373
North Haven Transportation	203-239-5037
Ofer Express	203-740-7655
Old Dominion Freight Line Corp.	203-795-0550
Pace Motor Lines Inc.	203-366-3881
Paramount Transportation Systems	203-294-0666
Petruzzello Transport Inc.	203-393-1770
Pony Express	203-846-6177
R&L Carriers	866-752-5730
Severance Trucking Company	203-239-5271
Short Haul Independent Trans.	203-881-0664
Stalsburg Express	860-526-5475
Sunrunner Transport Services	203-230-2760
UPS Freight	203-265-9506
World Express Inc.	203-934-4450