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Transportation & Logistics
FedEx Express gets a new chief Jan. 1, with a rising star in FedEx leadership taking over for a long-tenured executive who embodies the company’s wealth of home-grown talent. -
Transportation & Logistics
FedEx, Walgreens roll out home delivery of prescriptions
FedEx and Walgreens said Thursday they’re doubling down on their alliance by offering next-day prescription deliveries in selected U.S. markets. -
Transportation & Logistics
FedEx job fair set Saturday to hire 500 part-timers at Express hub
FedEx is holding a job fair Saturday, Dec. 8, to fill 500 permanent part-time jobs at the FedEx Express world hub at Memphis International Airport. -
Transportation & Logistics
House Democrats seek investigation to clear air about XPO
A majority of House Democrats is seeking to clear the air about allegations of workplace abuses by logistics giant XPO at a Memphis warehouse operated for Verizon. -
Transportation & Logistics Business diversity gains touted by airport
Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority spent $16.5 million or 30 percent on contracts with disadvantaged, minority and women owned businesses in fiscal 2018, up 3 percent from a year earlier. -
Transportation & Logistics Airport reports spending 30 percent with disadvantaged businesses
Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority spent $16.5 million or 30 percent on contracts with disadvantaged, minority and women-owned businesses in fiscal 2018, up 3 percent from a year earlier. -
Transportation & Logistics
Olympic Career Training Institute aims to meet truck driver shortage one CDL at a time
Bill Phillips, a 37-year trucking industry veteran from Knoxville, aimed a megaphone at a student driver after repeated botched attempts to back up a big rig. -
Transportation & Logistics
High-tech push fuels expansion of FedEx Ground Olive Branch hub
Dakota Garrity presides over central control at FedEx Ground in Olive Branch, Mississippi, like a NASA flight director overseeing a moon mission. -
Transportation & Logistics
FedEx adds 1,000 electric vehicles to operate in California
FedEx has announced a deal to significantly expand its electric vehicle fleet by adding 1,000 Chinese-made Chanje V8100 vehicles. -
Transportation & Logistics
Lamar Avenue overhaul set for spring launch
The first phase of Lamar Avenue’s long-awaited overhaul is expected to begin next spring and be completed by November 2021. -
Transportation & Logistics Family of deceased FedEx hub worker sues equipment suppliers for $3 million
Two suppliers of cargo handling equipment at the FedEx world hub face a $3 million lawsuit over the Nov. 22, 2017, death of material handler Ellen Gladney, 60. -
Transportation & Logistics
Albert Glenn stood on shoulders of pioneering black pilots at FedEx, then paid it forward
With a hand up from FedEx’s pioneering black aviators, Albert Glenn reached his profession’s pinnacle flying wide-body air freighters around the world. -
Transportation & Logistics
Airport braces for parking crunch, longer security lines during holiday peak
Crowded parking decks and longer security lines await Thanksgiving week travelers at Memphis International Airport. -
Transportation & Logistics
Operation Warm coat giveaway at local schools warms bodies and hearts
FedEx volunteers and the national nonprofit Operation Warm blanketed two Memphis-area schools with TLC this week, distributing more than 700 winter coats at Hawkins Mill and Hamilton elementary schools. -
Transportation & Logistics
FedEx to increase shipping rates after holiday season
FedEx Corp. announced it will increase shipping rates for three of its subsidiaries, FedEx Express, FedEx Ground and FedEx Freight, effective Jan. 7. -
Transportation & Logistics
Aviation mechanic schools gear up with scholarship boost from FedEx
“The sky’s the limit” is a recurring theme in conversations among students, faculty and administrators of a school for aircraft mechanics in the shadow of FedEx Express’ Memphis world hub. -
Transportation & Logistics
Olive Branch Airport looks to new era of city ownership
The city of Olive Branch completed the purchase of Olive Branch Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 31, ending a 45-year run of private ownership of one of Mississippi’s busiest airports. -
Transportation & Logistics
FedEx ending NRA shipping discount program
FedEx Corp. has announced that it will end a shipping discount alliance with the National Rifle Association, citing an inadequate volume of shipping to sustain the program. -
Transportation & Logistics
FedEx volunteers bundle ‘just the basics’ for storm victims
About 110 FedEx volunteers gathered in Memphis Friday, Oct. 26, to package more than 3,600 hygiene kits to replenish the warehouses of Heart to Heart International following a deadly tropical storm season. -
Transportation & Logistics
Interstate 269 opens to traffic, linking Hernando to I-40, Millington
DeSoto County’s final section of Interstate 269 opened Friday, Oct. 26, with predictions of economic benefits, kudos to those who conceived and built it and prayers for safe travel. -
Transportation & Logistics FedEx gives University of Memphis $500,000 for aviation scholarships
The University of Memphis will receive $500,000 from a FedEx Express scholarship grant to support a newfound commercial aviation degree program. -
Transportation & Logistics Weekend closure of Poplar, I-240 slated for MemFix 4 bridge replacement
For the third weekend in a row, Interstate 240 and Poplar are scheduled to be closed down for construction from 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, to 6 a.m. Monday, Oct. 29. -
Transportation & Logistics
Times’ story examining pregnant worker treatment draws bead on XPO Memphis facility
XPO Logistics, employer of 4,000 warehouse and distribution workers in greater Memphis, is under fire again, the centerpiece of a New York Times story about treatment of pregnant workers in U.S. workplaces. -
Transportation & Logistics Mississippi opens last four-lane section of U.S. 72 to traffic
U.S. 72 in Mississippi is now four lanes from Tennessee to Alabama. -
Transportation & Logistics
American Airlines adds 4th daily flight to Washington Reagan
American Airlines is adding a fourth weekday nonstop between Memphis and Washington, starting Jan. 7.
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