FedEx on Thursday announced an agreement to buy Australian logistics services company Manton Air-Sea Pty Ltd.

American Airlines has beefed up Memphis-Miami service with a second daily nonstop that started Oct. 4.

Charles Baker Airport, the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority’s facility for small planes in north Shelby County, is getting a renovation of four aircraft hangars.

A new master plan for the Port of Memphis calls for infrastructure upgrades to keep Presidents Island stable and a concerted push to maximize the potential of 2,300 undeveloped acres in nearby Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park.

Bridge lighting installation is scheduled to cause intermittent lane closures on Interstate 40 on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday, Oct. 22, to Thursday, Oct. 25, weather permitting, the Tennessee Department of Transportation says.

Zombies didn’t take over a runway at Memphis International Airport Monday morning, but it sure looked like it. A mass-casualty disaster exercise featured 117 students, moaning, limping and generally pouring on the theatrics as they pretended to be victims of an airliner crash landing. The mock disaster, which closed Runway 36L/18R from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday, began with explosions and fireballs around 10:30 a.m., attracting fire trucks and ambulances to the airfield southwest of the terminal.

FedEx isn’t worried about recruiting employees for the coming peak season despite Amazon’s move to a $15 minimum wage starting Nov. 1, a high-ranking official said Friday.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has scheduled full weekend closures of Interstate 240 and Poplar in East Memphis for the next three weekends as part of a project to replace bridges over I-240.

FedEx will hire 3,800 people in the Memphis area for the holiday shipping season, out of 55,000 additional personnel systemwide.

DeSoto County’s last segment of Interstate 269 opens Oct. 26, completing a seamless four-lane expressway from Tunica to eastern Shelby County.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is reviewing bids received Friday, Oct. 5, for the first section of Lamar Avenue’s long-awaited upgrade in southeast Shelby County.

Letter carrier Maurice Hill worries what would become of people on his Berclair postal route if U.S. mail were privatized and he didn’t go door to door each day.

Former Yahoo! and Autodesk chief executive officer Carol Bartz will speak in Memphis Thursday as part of Christian Brothers High School’s FedEx Speaker Series.

It would be hard to find a community service project more in FedEx’s wheelhouse than the assembly of holiday care packages for U.S. military personnel that took over the FedEx Event Center at Shelby Farms Thursday.

Southwest Airlines has been the biggest beneficiary of Memphis International Airport’s incentives for new nonstop flights, receiving more than half of $837,000 awarded since 2012.

Amazon’s move to pay at least $15 an hour could have a ripple effect on Memphis wages that are near the bottom nationally in the transportation and logistics sector.

Southwest Airlines will launch its Memphis-Denver nonstop on Wednesday, giving Memphians three choices for nonstop travel between Memphis International Airport and the Mile High City.

A coalition of community activists marched Monday in solidarity with workers at a Memphis XPO Logistics facility that’s the focus on a union organizing campaign.

Memphis International Airport is looking at sweetening incentives for new flights and possibly seeking money from the business community to help pay for it.

Amazon’s emerging presence in Memphis – as an employer instead of an online seller – is hitting full stride with the announcement Thursday that the world’s largest online retailer wants to hire 1,500 people at two Memphis facilities.

FedEx’s free tuition offering for hub workers has reached Indianapolis, where more than 3,500 employees are eligible to pursue degrees at the University of Memphis' online offering, U of M Global.

FedEx marked departures of two lions of its 45-year history on Monday with standing ovations from shareholders and high praise from company leader Frederick W. Smith.

CN, the Canadian National Railway, has donated $500,000 to the University of Memphis to support the Southeast Transportation Workforce Center.

Debra Clark thought there must be a catch when her manager announced FedEx was offering Memphis hub workers tuition-free online education at University of Memphis.

FedEx leaders stood strong Monday in the face of tariff threats, Amazon delivery plans and lower-than-expected, but robust quarterly profit growth.