Dispatch: Airport and Lake Nona
Pallets at the airport and in Lake Nona
LAKE NONA — Orlando International Airport sits about 6 miles southeast of downtown, and the warehouses around it, with those in nearby Lake Nona, form the largest industrial submarket in the metro. Air cargo, e-commerce and medical freight dominate.
The airport side
The airport is served by two toll roads, SR 528 (the Beachline Expressway) and SR 417 (the Central Florida GreeneWay). More than 20 major freight carriers operate there, and the airport handled 222,705 tons of airfreight in 2025.
Industrial buildings cluster on Tradeport Drive and Boggy Creek Road. Prologis Park at AIPO has a building at 2663 Tradeport Drive and another at 10990 Boggy Creek Road, both described as adjacent to the airport, and a city master plan proposes two more warehouses of about 106,000 and 115,000 square feet on Tradeport Drive in the Airport Industrial Park of Orlando.
The Lake Nona side
Lake Nona is a 17-square-mile planned community inside Orlando's city limits, southeast of the airport. Its Medical City includes the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. AdventHealth began construction on a 10-story hospital at 10999 Narcoossee Road.
Narcoossee Road runs past the entrance to Medical City and meets SR 417 near Lake Nona.
ZIP codes
| ZIP | Part of the district |
|---|---|
| 32824 | Tradeport Drive addresses, and part of Lake Nona |
| 32827 | Lake Nona |
| 32812 | In the district's ZIP list |
| 32832 | In the district's ZIP list |
What the pallets look like
- Air cargo: mixed pallets in many sizes, some with the ISPM 15 stamp for export.
- E-commerce: hundreds of mixed pallets leaving a building every week.
- Medical: clean, dry Grade A for freight that gets inspected.
Momentum
Southeast Orange County recorded 240,815 square feet of industrial net absorption in the second quarter of 2026, the highest of any Orlando submarket that quarter, so new tenants and new pallet flows are landing here.
Who runs the airport
Orlando International Airport is operated by the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority. The airport's IATA code is MCO, and it opened in October 1961.
Two kinds of freight
A cargo building handles pallets that leave by air or by truck on tight schedules; a medical or school campus receives supplies in smaller loads. The pallet piles that result differ: the first is large and mixed, the second small and clean. A request should say which building type the pallets come from.
Size of the field
The airport covers 11,605 acres, or 18.1 square miles, with four main runways of 9,001, 10,000, 12,005 and 12,004 feet. It had 386,904 aircraft operations in 2025 and is the busiest airport in Florida. It holds Foreign Trade Zone #42, which is covered on the Orange County page.
Sources
Last reviewed 12 November 2026.