The Chihuahua Siglo XXI Project is a long-term, comprehensive effort to design and implement new economic development strategies for Chihuahua. In 1993, the ETG team with DRI/McGraw-Hill examined the external and internal economic environment for the state, developed a vision of a new kind of economy to guide the decisions of policy makers and leaders in the private sector and developed strategies and tactics for moving the economy in new directions. Then, via a comprehensive set of “cluster working group” meetings, ETG staff assisted group participants in identifying a set of concrete action initiatives on trade, investment, education, infrastructure, finance and other issues. These initiatives are still in the process of being implemented under the leadership of the project organization: Chihuahua Siglo XXI. The transportation and distribution cluster was one of nine clusters identified. A transportation/ distribution cluster working group was formed and five new action initiatives emerged from a six month intensive working group process, including: a joint purchasing collaborative among trucking companies, the formation of a trucker’s credit union (bank), the development of a new local airline with direct passenger and freight connections between Dallas/Fort Worth and Chihuahua airports. Chihuahua created a very pro-active and positive business climate and became one of Mexico’s leading states in job growth, foreign direct investment, and high tech infrastructure.