Transportation & Logistics
West Canada port strikes create worries for Memphis
The United States is Canada’s largest trade partner. Ships loaded with containers for now are waiting offshore.
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Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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The United States is Canada’s largest trade partner. Ships loaded with containers for now are waiting offshore.
There were lots of cars around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday at the Glenview Community Center, where people were streaming in after the night shift and before the day shift.
At Whitehaven Community Center, a steady patter of foot traffic was in and out around 8 a.m.
The new sorting technology is expected to end nights at the hub when the bottom falls out due to weather, outages or package spikes.
The facility is large enough to sort 56,000 packages an hour.
The Memphis-based company’s announcement of the closing in South Carolina is in addition to previous layoff announcements.
Avron B. Fogelman’s gift is the single largest gift to the business college and among the largest to the campus as a whole.
The 74,000-square-foot travel center, one of the largest in the region, is set to bring about 225 jobs to the area.
Throw the beads! The flight will operate daily from the end of February to the beginning of March 2025.
When he started flying at FedEx in 1983, Albert Glenn was one of eight Black pilots in the ranks. He’s spent the rest of his life raising money and starting training programs to help Black students interested in aviation.
Sheila E., a Grammy- and Emmy-nominated musician and percussionist, will discuss her music and career at Rhodes College Oct. 28 as part of its Springfield Music Lecture Series.
The fdx.com commerce platform offers merchants more insight into their logistics, with an eye to helping brick-and-mortar businesses compete with Amazon.
The airport is building a better understanding, one person at a time, on what it takes to expand and add cities.
In 2023, FedEx spent $284 million with Shelby County suppliers. Statewide, it spent $637 million with suppliers.
For 35 years, Pat Pope has been the office manager, the first person people see when they visit the offices on Central and the spirit of collegiality in its work.
One closing is in Cleveland, Tennessee, part of what a Truist Securities analyst calls a process of “strategic, commercial and cultural reset.”
George Nixon begins work next week, charged with finding new sources of revenue and fostering community ownership of a charity that feeds the poor, houses the homeless and serves in disaster.
In all, the company is cutting 650 jobs, 400 of them in Memphis, its headquarters.
On Monday, Oct. 14, IMC employees packed grills, charcoal, diapers, formula, tents, sleeping bags, baby medications and generators into a 20-foot shipping container.
The Ducks Unlimited conservation officer had a part in DU putting a record 1 million acres in conservation programs this year. She recently received the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies lifetime achievement award.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist has helped pass bills in two states to make insurance cover speech therapy. Tennessee is one of his next targets.
Humanoids already exist in some workplaces, managing repetitive and dangerous jobs. But, at a robot forum in Memphis, Melanee Wise said that switch is about to flip.
West Tennessee Legal Services inherited more cases when federal funding was terminated for Memphis Area Legal Services June 30, due to a list of inefficiencies.
The Humanoid Robot Forum and the Autonomous Mobile Robots & Logistics Conference, both at the Renasant Convention Center, will bring together experts, industrial users and suppliers, including AI companies.
The session from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Oct. 9, is geared particularly to small businesses.