One look at a map of North America will tell you: Manitoba is at the heart of it all. And the province has leveraged its central location in the continent with an advanced transportation infrastructure that includes:

• Three rail links to the United States, with connections allowing shipment throughout North America.
• Rail yards able to handle over 5,500 cars per day, and intermodal terminals with capacity to process more than 200,000 containers per year.
• Six of the top 100 for-hire carriers in Canada are headquartered in Manitoba. On average, about 1,150 trucks cross the Canada–U.S. border at Emerson, Manitoba every day. It is the second busiest land border crossing in Western Canada, and the seventh busiest nationally. 
• Winnipeg’s James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, a conveniently located 24-hour international airport that serves as an important overnight cargo hub for FedEx, Purolator, UPS, and Cargojet Airlines. The international airport also includes a direct connection to Mexico via the Mid-continent Trade Corridor. 
• CentrePort Canada, North America's largest tri-modal inland port and Foreign Trade Zone (PDF).

Given its location, it’s no surprise that the province is also a key part of the Mid-continent Trade Corridor, a system of connecting highways and rail routes that provides seamless and efficient transportation linking major commercial centres in the Canadian and American Midwest, through the Southwest, and deep into Mexico. Key cities along this corridor include Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City. Intermodal in nature, the Corridor allows cost-effective and safe movement of goods and people, minimizing both travel costs and time. Manitoba's capital, Winnipeg, is located just 150 miles north of Grand Forks, North Dakota.