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Industry Overview
![]() Economic Development ![]() Demographics ![]() Labor/Business Overview ![]() Education / Training ![]() Financing ![]() Utilities ![]() ![]() Contact InfoWetzel County Chamberof Commerce P.O. Box 271 201 Main Street New Martinsville, WV 26155 P 304.455.3825 F 304.455.3637 Business Hours Monday - Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM |
DemographicsTRANSPORTATION Distance To Local Markets
Trucking Wetzel County makes an excellent shipping point from which to serve a majority of the industrial, commercial, and consumer markets in the United States. This is a highly competitive trucking market with over 20 motor freight companies maintaining offices in the metropolitan area. Rail CSX Transportation provides rail service to Wetzel County. CSX Transportation also owns barge and truck transportation divisions whose services are available in the area. CSX serves local industry by shipping products and materials for all the major corporations through Wetzel County to their final destinations. Although facilities are available for barge transfer, there is no local container or piggyback services offered. The Greater New Martinsville area is a very cost effective rail shipping point. CSX operates a rail yard in the Brooklyn section of New Martinsville and also owns a number of rail-served industrial sites in the region. Barge By virtue of its location on the Ohio River, the area has excellent water transportation north beyond Pittsburgh and downriver to the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and all the other navigable tributaries which serve most of the central United States. The Ohio River accounts for over one-third of the maritime cargo moving inland in the United States each year, (approximately 275 million tons) and by comparison handles more cargo per year than the Panama Canal. The Ohio River is open for navigation year round except in the rare occasion when the river has a major flood or freeze. In 1975, two new locks and dams were built in the area as part of a general comprehensive upgrading of the Ohio navigation system by the Army Corps of Engineers. The new dams provide deeper pools and longer uninterrupted stretches of water which reduce the number of locks to negotiate. Download the Fact Book Here |
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