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    Millington airport, FedEx backstop and pilot training center, wins $10 million runway grant

    Millington-Memphis Airport has won a $10 million federal grant to rehab its 8,000-foot runway, which serves FedEx, general and military aviation and a flight training school.

    By Wayne Risher May 16, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Airport hikes landing fees, terminal rents slightly in $125M budget

    Memphis International Airport officials approved a $125 million budget and a contract to replace and realign airfield markings to meet new FAA standards.

    By Wayne Risher May 17, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Memphis airport pursues international service as numbers rebound

    Memphis International Airport officials are working to secure a trans-Atlantic nonstop flight, and airport chief executive officer Scott Brockman is hopeful it will happen sooner than later.

    By Wayne Risher May 15, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Delayed retirement of aircraft slows FedEx progress on emissions goal

    FedEx says it made insufficient progress in fiscal 2018 to meet a goal of reducing aircraft emissions on a revenue basis by 30% by 2020.

    By Wayne Risher May 13, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Airport chief joins industry task force on drone incursions

    Scott Brockman, president and chief executive officer of the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority, has joined an industry group's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Unmanned Aircraft System Mitigation at Airports.

    By Wayne Risher May 10, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    My City Rides revs up motor scooter campaign for Memphis

    The nonprofit My City Rides is gearing up for a more aggressive second year to promote its motor scooter sales as an answer to the transportation challenges for many Memphians.

    By Tom Bailey April 28, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx touts convenience network as antidote to porch piracy, missed deliveries

    FedEx and Walgreens executives tout the value proposition of their FedEx OnSite network of pickup and drop-off locations in 9,000 Walgreens across the country.

    By Wayne Risher April 29, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Amazon Prime One-Day: Will it hurt or help FedEx?

    Amazon says it will roll out one-day delivery as the standard for Amazon Prime customers over multiple quarters, and that it will need help from 'external transportation partners.' 

    By Wayne Risher April 26, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    State looks to provide $21 million sweetener for FedEx hub expansion

    Tennessee's largest employer, FedEx Corp., may get a sales tax break from the state on the $1.3 billion overhaul of its hub at Memphis International Airport that will continue to 2026. 

    By Wayne Risher April 24, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx volunteers spruce up Wolf River Greenway’s newest section

    About 100 volunteers from FedEx Corp.'s Memphis home base turned out Wednesday to plant trees and tidy up the Wolf River Conservancy's newest section of Wolf River Greenway.

    By Wayne Risher April 26, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx wraps up voluntary buyout notices to employees Monday

    FedEx finished notifying approved participants in its latest voluntary buyout program on Monday. The company isn't expected to disclose the program's results until a June 25 earnings report.

    By Wayne Risher April 23, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx touts economic, social, environmental impacts in Citizenship Report

    FedEx by the numbers: 2019 Global Citizenship Report takes a deep dive into FedEx's workforce makeup, energy consumption, charitable programs and financials.

    By Wayne Risher April 20, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Painting of St. Jude patient that hung in airport is reunited with family

    Enrique Ramirez surprised his wife Letitia with a painting of their late daughter, Arianna, who battled a rare cancer for nearly five years at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

    By Wayne Risher April 21, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx, Open Skies proponents take umbrage with latest salvo by legacy carriers

    Executives of FedEx, Atlas Air Worldwide and JetBlue are urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao Tuesday to stand by Open Skies agreements.

    By Wayne Risher April 19, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Airport grabs Memphis Tigers by the tail in extension of marketing partnership

    Memphis International Airport officials on Thursday approved a two-year, nearly $200,000 marketing and sponsorship agreement tied to University of Memphis athletics. 

    By Wayne Risher April 18, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Amazon not exactly nipping at FedEx’s heels, but growing delivery network

    Amazon is making a bigger move into air cargo and building its capability to pick up from sellers and deliver directly to customers. But FedEx says it isn't worried.

    By Wayne Risher April 15, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Fullen Dock and Warehouse touts ‘competitive edge’ of Memphis Foreign Trade Zone

    Fullen Dock and Warehouse has received a foreign trade zone designation as part of Memphis Foreign Trade Zone No. 77, which received $1.4 billion in goods in 2017.

    By Wayne Risher April 05, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Memphis-Cancun nonstop returns in May for summer vacation season

    Vacation Express brings its Memphis-Cancun nonstop back for the 2019 summer vacation season starting in May. Flights leave Memphis International Airport on Saturday mornings and return on Friday nights.

    By Wayne Risher April 03, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    E-commerce powers rising brand value for FedEx, UPS, study says

    A consultant that places values on commercial brands picked four Memphis companies and nine in Tennessee for its ranking of 500 most valuable brands. FedEx was No. 34.

    By Wayne Risher April 03, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx Office marks milestone with opening of 2,000th store

    FedEx Office, which grew out of FedEx Corp.'s 2004 acquisition of Kinko's, has marked the opening of its 2,000th store, and the 150th store located inside a Walmart.

    By Wayne Risher April 02, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Staying or going? FedEx nears decisions on voluntary buyouts

    Some buyout-eligible FedEx employees could be left behind as a new payroll-trimming project comes to a head in April. FedEx aims to save up to $275 million a year.

    By Wayne Risher March 31, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Former FedEx career employee Sean Healy joins Amazon

    Former longtime FedEx executive Sean Healy, most recently regional chief operating officer for FedEx Express Europe, is listed on LinkedIn as an Amazon director after a 32-year FedEx career.

    By Wayne Risher March 29, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    ‘Significant’ music industry growth seen among promising job sectors

    The Memphis & Shelby County Regional Economic Alliance met publicly for the first time Thursday and agreed on priorities for job growth, ranging from transportation and logistics to the music industry.

    By Wayne Risher March 29, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    River turns wheels of industry, stokes city’s economic engine

    The Mississippi River has been lubricating the economic machinery of Memphis since land speculators put down stakes where a high bluff overlooked the muddy terminus of the Wolf River.

    By Wayne Risher April 01, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Memphis hangs at No. 2 on ranking of world’s busiest cargo airports

    Memphis remains No. 2 in the world and No. 1 in North America in an Airports Council International preliminary ranking of the busiest cargo airports by volume.

    By Wayne Risher March 25, 2019

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