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    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
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher November 01, 2018
  • 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.

    By Patrick Lantrip October 30, 2018
  • 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.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff October 27, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher October 29, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher October 25, 2018
  • 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.

    By Wayne Risher October 25, 2018

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