# Tampa International Airport (TPA)

> Tampa, US · IATA: TPA · ICAO: KTPA · Large Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `TPA` |
| ICAO | `KTPA` |
| City | Tampa |
| Country | US |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 8 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | 27.97550, -82.53320 |

## Description

Bulk moves by water in Tampa; urgency flies. Port Tampa Bay ranks as Florida's largest port by tonnage — phosphate, fuels, steel — while Tampa International Airport (IATA: TPA, ICAO: KTPA) covers the time-critical side with air cargo in the order of 100,000 tons a year. FedEx and UPS serve the field daily, with larger international consignments routing as belly freight or trucked to Miami, and UPS is building a new sorting facility on site. Foreign-Trade Zone 79 allows duty-deferred handling right at the airport. Passenger traffic runs to about 25 million a year, Southwest the largest carrier, with a growing transatlantic network adding widebody belly capacity. The airport sits on the I-4 corridor toward Lakeland and Orlando, Florida's densest distribution market, with CSX intermodal ramps nearby. The next big build is Airside D — a 16-gate concourse, roughly 1.53 billion dollars, due late 2028 — and a piece of history: in 1971 TPA became the first airport in the world to run fully automated people movers between landside and airsides.

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*Freight Academy — Airport Profile: [https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/tampa-international-airport-tpa](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/tampa-international-airport-tpa)*

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