Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport

• BWI is the country's second most healthy airport, featuring a low-stress environment that includes a spa and a hiking trail for long layovers.
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• BWI grew between 2006 and 2007, and is now carrying 1,310,350 more passengers per year. 

• BWI set a passenger traffic record for May 2008 with 1.9 million passengers, which is almost 2% higher than traffic in May 2007. 

• BWI is one of the fastest growing airports in North America—it experienced a record  with 21.5 million passengers 2007 in 2007, ranking 25th nationally.

• The State has dedicated $1.2 billion to improve BWI over the next six years—improved road access and parking, new gates and walkways, and faster rail service connections.
  
  
• Accommodates more than one third of the passenger traffic in the Baltimore-Washington metro area.
  
• Handles over 261,00 metric tons of air cargo annually (ranking 27th nationally).
  
• Offers 24-hour air-cargo services and 10 cargo buildings with 414,906 square feet of cargo warehouse space, 24,000 square feet of cold storage space, and a 17 acre air cargo ramp.
  
  

• A Foreign-Trade Zone
• Convenient customs clearance
• United States Department of Agriculture inspectors on premises
• The only United States Fish and Wildlife Service inspection gateway in the Mid-Atlantic region provides on-site inspectors expedite clearance of live animals, fish and game
• International banking
• More than 100 freight forwarding and handling firms
• Seven cargo airlines
  
  

Travel from BWI to other nearby east coast locations is facilitated by:

• Amtrak's Northeast Corridor route—passenger rail with easy access to trains operating several times daily between Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City and Boston
• The regional MARC train—a commuter rail system with 39 trains serving the Baltimore-Washington area
• Light rail service—offers service from the airport to downtown Baltimore, Camden Yards, Penn Station, and employment centers in Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties
• Easily accessible interstate connections—quick access to I-95, I-695, I-295 and I-97