Returns keep FedEx, rivals busy
Double-digit growth in e-commerce returns are providing a bump for FedEx and other carriers as peak season winds down, opening a window of opportunity year-round.
Double-digit growth in e-commerce returns are providing a bump for FedEx and other carriers as peak season winds down, opening a window of opportunity year-round.
Seven notable Memphians, led by University of Memphis head basketball coach Penny Hardaway, are lending their voices to Memphis International Airport for overhead messages greeting visitors and giving helpful information.
A Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet and two elite aviators stopped over at Millington-Memphis Airport Thursday, Jan. 2, to promote the MidSouth Airshow June 20-21.
Memphis International Airport officials hope to parlay recent gains in nonstop flights, to Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, into more service additions in 2020.
Memphis area transportation and logistics companies are scrambling to find enough employees in an era of full employment.
FedEx looks to e-commerce, expansion in Europe and efficiency moves including flight hour reductions and fleet modernization to drive future profitability. Company officials say they can't count on trade growth.
Memphis-based FedEx Corp. missed Wall Street earnings expectations for the September-November quarter and further reduced full-year earnings guidance.
FedEx says Amazon could hurt small businesses by banning the e-commerce giant's third-party sellers from shipping Prime packages through FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery networks starting this week.
Delta Air Lines will add a Salt Lake City nonstop from Memphis International Airport next July, its first new destination from Memphis since it ceased hub operations in 2013.
FedEx reports earnings for second quarter fiscal 2020 after U.S. financial markets close on Tuesday, Dec. 17. Analysts expect earnings to be down nearly 30% from a year earlier.
Byhalia Pipeline LLC aims to build a crude oil pipeline across 45 miles of Shelby, DeSoto and Marshall counties to bridge a key gap in a national network.
FedEx marked what was expected to be one of its busiest days in history on Monday, Dec. 2, as more than 33 million shipments moved through the Memphis-based company's network.
Shipping industry consultant SJ Consulting believes FedEx peak season volume will increase a relatively modest 3%, in part because of the expansion of Amazon's delivery network.
FedEx expects to more than double normal package volume of 15 million packages a day on three Mondays in December, starting with Cyber Monday, Dec. 2.
Remember when it was possible to arrive at Memphis International Airport minutes before a flight? Those days are over, at least at peak times like Thanksgiving.
FedEx Express regional president Richard W. Smith talked about Wing drones, Roxo the SameDay Bot and automation plans for the Memphis hub during an interview with The Daily Memphian.
Indiana Hunt-Martin, one of seven surviving members of World War II's 6888th Postal Battalion, spoke at FedEx Express World Headquarters Friday, Nov. 8, during an early Veterans Day program.
Memphis-based IMC Companies has acquired intermodal company TRANSInternational System.
FedEx and Wing Aviation completed what FedEx called the nation’s first “scheduled, commercial residential delivery” by drone in the U.S. in Virginia on Friday, Oct. 18.
An addition of nearly a mile of new railroad tracks to the Port Commission public terminal on Presidents Island should be finished by May 31, 2020.
FedEx Freight Direct, a service that can move heavy, bulky e-commerce purchases into a consumer's home or business, is expanding to reach 80% of the contiguous U.S. population.
A crush of fall break travelers and a bank of early morning departures combined for the biggest crowd at Memphis International Airport's main security checkpoint since at least July 2008.
Memphis International Airport’s B Concourse modernization is sitting at 25% complete as construction crews start erecting steel framework of a larger, light-filled space for passenger loading and unloading.
FedEx Returns Technology will be deployed at FedEx pickup and dropoff locations inside about 9,000 Walgreens stores in time for the holiday peak season.
Patterson Warehouses received a six-year, payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) incentive in July from the Economic Development Growth Engine for Memphis and Shelby County.