Fort Worth is where a lot of North Texas freight starts and stops, and it says so in primary documents. Hillwood, the developer of AllianceTexas, describes a 27,000-acre master-planned development in north Fort Worth with 602 companies and its own inland port. The FAA's all-cargo table ranks Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport 20th in the country for landed weight in 2025. BNSF's annual report gives the address of its principal executive offices as Lou Menk Drive in the city. None of that moves a single parcel to your customer, and this page does not pretend it does. What it gives a Shopify store is the setting for a decision that does depend on shipping: how deep a cart discount can go before the cost of moving the order eats the margin. It also gives the one tax fact that is local to the city, the Comptroller's total for a Fort Worth address, worded apart from the Texas, Dallas and Houston pages. Below are the freight facts with their sources, then a cart-tier plan with the arithmetic shown.
Fort Worth holds the AllianceTexas inland port, an all-cargo airport and BNSF's headquarters, so a store that ships to or from North Texas can read the region's freight infrastructure from primary sources before it sets shipping-based discount tiers.
Write down what it costs you to ship an average order to your three biggest zones, from carrier quotes for your own package weights. The freight data around Fort Worth says nothing about that number, which is why it has to come from you.
Source: FAA: CY25 ACAIS final all-cargo landed weight (9/22/2026)
Pick a spend level a little above your current average order, so the discount is a reason to add one item rather than a reward for what people already buy. Our free shipping threshold guide shows how to read the order value spread behind that choice.
Check the margin after the discount. Assume a 45 percent margin on list price: a 5 percent cart discount leaves (45 minus 5) divided by (100 minus 5), or 42.1 percent, and a 10 percent discount leaves (45 minus 10) divided by 90, or 38.9 percent. Shipping comes out of that margin, so recompute with your own cost per order before you publish the second tier.
Expect the tax line to show 8.25 percent of the taxable amount under the Comptroller's table, in any of the four county designations. A shopper who sees a tier discount and a tax line on one cart should find both on the page, so put the tier rule next to the cart total.
Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: City Sales and Use Tax (Fort Worth rows)
Ask for the origin ZIP and the transit days it quotes to your customers, then set tier thresholds from the zone costs that result. A warehouse near Alliance is only worth building a promise on when the carrier's own transit table backs it.
Source: Hillwood: press release, Feb. 24, 2026 (figures as Hillwood reports them)
Use the Cart discount tiers template, a discount on the whole cart that grows with spend, and give each tier an end date. See the pricing page for plan requirements.
Build it with the Cart discount tiers template.
Requires: Growth plan or higher.
The FAA figure counts pounds landed by all-cargo aircraft in a year, and the district rules Hillwood describes are about heavy-haul trucks over 80,000 pounds. Your order is a parcel. As planning advice, take your shipping cost from a carrier quote for your own package weight and zone, and do not read cargo volume at Alliance as a lower price for a box.
Source: FAA: CY25 ACAIS final all-cargo landed weight (9/22/2026)
BNSF's annual report says its network ran over 32,500 route miles in 28 states, and Hillwood describes its Alliance intermodal facility as an inland rail port. Rail moves containers between ports and distribution centers, and the pages we read do not describe parcel delivery times from either. Ask your carrier for transit days to your customers' ZIP codes and promise only those.
Hillwood's description of the Smart Port lists real-time freight tracking and a connector bridge as parts of a 262 million dollar project. It is infrastructure around the port, not a shipping service for a Shopify store, so it should not appear in your offer copy.
Every Fort Worth row the Comptroller lists totals 8.25 percent, whichever of the four county designations it sits under, so a 100 dollar cart carries 8.25 dollars of tax for a Fort Worth address. This is not tax advice; confirm the rate for a specific address with the Comptroller.
Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: City Sales and Use Tax (Fort Worth rows)
Hillwood's February 24, 2026 release describes AllianceTexas as its 27,000-acre master-planned, mixed-use development in north Fort Worth, home to 602 companies and directly supporting 73,134 jobs, and cites Insight Research Corporation's annual report as estimating 142.9 billion dollars in regional economic impact over 36 years, including 12.9 billion dollars in 2025.
Hillwood: press release, Feb. 24, 2026 (figures as Hillwood reports them) (accessed October 10, 2026)
Hillwood's November 20, 2025 article says the Fort Worth City Council designated the Alliance Logistics District on November 11, that it spans nearly 1,400 acres anchored by BNSF's Alliance intermodal facility, which Hillwood calls North America's largest inland rail port, and that it allows non-CDL hostler vehicles between the intermodal facility and district warehouses and heavy-haul movements over 80,000 pounds without special-use permits.
Hillwood: article, Nov. 20, 2025 (descriptions as Hillwood states them) (accessed October 10, 2026)
Hillwood's October 24, 2024 release describes the AllianceTexas Smart Port as a technology-enabled upgrade of its inland port, a 262 million dollar public-private project that includes 96 million dollars of private investment and an 80 million dollar federal INFRA grant, with real-time freight tracking and a connector bridge to State Highway 170 to move trucks off Interstate 35W.
Hillwood: press release, Oct. 24, 2024 (accessed October 10, 2026)
BNSF's fiscal 2022 annual report gives 2650 Lou Menk Drive, Fort Worth, Texas as the address of its principal executive offices, says BNSF Railway operated over 32,500 route miles in 28 states, and says its facilities included approximately 25 intermodal hubs across the system.
BNSF: Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC annual report on Form 10-K for fiscal 2022 (posted at bnsf.com) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The FAA's final calendar year 2025 all-cargo landed weight table, dated September 22, 2026, lists Perot Field/Fort Worth Alliance at rank 20 with 1,900,258,419 pounds landed in 2025 against 1,779,102,166 pounds in 2024, a change of 6.81 percent.
FAA: CY25 ACAIS final all-cargo landed weight (9/22/2026) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Comptroller's city table lists Fort Worth under four county designations, Denton, Parker, Tarrant and Wise, each showing a 1 percent city rate, a 0.5 percent Fort Worth MTA row and a 0.5 percent Fort Worth Crime Control row, for a total of 8.25 percent.
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: City Sales and Use Tax (Fort Worth rows) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate for the city of Fort Worth is 1,028,117 on July 1, 2025, up 19,512 from 1,008,605 in 2024 and up 109,225, or about 11.9 percent, from the 918,892 estimates base of 2020 (differences computed by us).
U.S. Census Bureau: Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates (accessed October 10, 2026)
Not tax advice. Confirm current rules with the state revenue department before you rely on a date or an exemption.
Requires: Growth plan or higher.
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