FedEx expanding CDG hub
FedEx Express is expanding its distribution hub at Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Airport. The €200m project will boost the hub’s package sorting capacity by more than 40%. Construction is set to start next summer and the facility is scheduled to be operational by 2019.
Upon completion, the CDG hub will include an automated sorting system for large, over-sized packages – which is a worldwide first for FedEx Express and an increasing market trend as e-commerce continues to grow.
FedEx Express has been active in France since 1985, with CDG becoming its main European hub in 1999 and the largest FedEx hub outside of the US. In a statement issued yesterday (18 October) about the new CDG expansion, FedEx said that its hub in Cologne, Germany and the TNT hub in Liege, Belgium “will be maintained as significant operations for the group moving forward”.
TNT will soon open a ground hub just North of Paris in the Ile de France region along with three TNT ground depots.
FedEx has made significant investments in France over the past years, including opening 19 stations since 2011 and acquiring the French domestic carrier Tatex in 2012. FedEx now has a presence in 48 French cities.
