More than 105,000 passengers expected to depart from here in the two-week holiday travel period. 

The company expects the transaction, which will produce two publicly traded companies, will be executed in 18 months.

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AutoZone President and CEO Phil Daniele said the Memphis-based company is positioned for growth heading into the remainder of FY 2025. 

One analyst said cargo volumes at Memphis likely will not return to the glory days of past years as FedEx pushes for higher-margin packages. 

Beverly Becton, 38-year employee of Delta Air Lines, lights up the gates at MEM with her customer shoutouts, including roses for birthdays and anniversaries, right down to the family pet. 

Memphis International starts to get busy on holidays around 4 a.m. because, as a non-hub airport, planes must leave early to get to hubs for transfers.

The cuts this week are likely the result of the company’s massive work to merge its Express, Ground and FedEx Services divisions.

Major importers in Memphis rely on the Canadian National Railway’s service from Prince Rupert because that route shaves 500 miles off the sail time from key Asian harbors.

The United States is Canada’s largest trade partner. Ships loaded with containers for now are waiting offshore. 

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.

Shaun Kavanaugh, 46, of Orlando, Florida, pleaded guilty Oct. 22 to mail fraud. He received more than $750,000 from FedEx. 

Throw the beads! The flight will operate daily from the end of February to the beginning of March 2025.

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. 

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.

In 2023, FedEx spent $284 million with Shelby County suppliers. Statewide, it spent $637 million with suppliers.

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 airline’s new service will operate Thursday through Monday, joining several Memphis nonstops added in the last six weeks, including Austin, Texas, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

“Now, hopefully equipment will be discharged where it was ladened to be discharged or at least at another U.S. port so we can get it delivered to our customers,” said the president of Mallory Alexander International Logistics.

The city is positioned to be a transportation powerhouse, but crime is a problem. Cargo thefts in Memphis were up nearly 60% in the first six months of 2024 over all of 2023, said Memphis Logistics Summit panelist Melzie Wilson.

Importers in Memphis are trying to locate loads dropped off ships before the strike started and notify customers.

The flight service comes after American Airlines dropped the same route earlier.

About 43% of imports into the U.S. flow through the coastal ports.

Southwest Airlines plans for flight service to begin in the spring.