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    Southwest triples down on Memphis-to-Dallas Love Field

    Southwest Airlines has upped its game on a Memphis to Dallas nonstop route, expanding to three flights a day from one flight a day starting Monday, Jan. 7.

    By Wayne Risher January 08, 2019
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx Express files $15M building permit

    FedEx Express moves forward with the modernization project of its world hub in Memphis that will exceed $1 billion.

    By Patrick Lantrip December 26, 2018
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Airport testing paves way for drones’ future as eyes in sky, delivery workhorses

    Drone testing by Memphis International Airport and technology partners could pave way for commercial uses like food, package deliveries. Memphis offers highly restricted airspace as proving ground.

    By Wayne Risher December 25, 2018
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Memphis airport builds future on local traveler base

    Memphis International Airport expects 2019 to be a banner year for serving travelers who are flying to and from the city and not merely making connections.

    By Wayne Risher December 24, 2018
  • Transportation & Logistics

    4 killed when local businessman Wei Chen’s aircraft crashes in Atlanta

    A twin-engine jet registered to company owned by a Memphis businessman crashed Thursday in Atlanta, killing all four aboard.

    By Wayne Risher and Yolanda Jones December 21, 2018
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx expects growth to continue despite trimming of workforce

    FedEx may be trimming jobs with its newly announced voluntary buyout program, but if history is a guide, it doesn't mean the Memphis-based company is done growing. In fact, its workforce has kept pace with rising global shipping demand, despite notable personnel cuts in 2004, 2009 and 2014.

    By Wayne Risher December 20, 2018
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx announces buyouts, lowers earnings expectations on global slowdown

    Citing global economic weakness, FedEx on Tuesday announced a voluntary buyout program for U.S. employees and dialed back forecasts for full-year earnings and a major profit improvement program.

    By Wayne Risher December 19, 2018
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Amazon spreads delivery network into Memphis with Prime vans, contractors

    ‘Tis the season for home deliveries.

    By Wayne Risher December 17, 2018
  • Transportation & Logistics

    FedEx stretches shipping deadlines to hit e-commerce sweet spot

    FedEx has rolled out a new shipping option for online retailers that caters to a consumer preference for evening shopping.

    By Wayne Risher December 18, 2018
  • Transportation & Logistics

    Raj Subramaniam to succeed David Cunningham as FedEx Express chief

    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.

    By Wayne Risher December 07, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher December 06, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher December 05, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher December 04, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher December 04, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher December 03, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher November 28, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher November 27, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher November 20, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher November 16, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher November 16, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher November 12, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher November 12, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher November 09, 2018
  • 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.

    By Patrick Lantrip November 05, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher November 04, 2018

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