FedEx Express launches direct China-U.S. flight
FedEx Express on Tuesday launched its first direct flight from the Chinese city of Shenzhen to its hub in Anchorage, Alaska.
FedEx has been serving Shenzhen for several years via Japan and its Asian hub at Subic Bay in the Philippines.
The new MD-11 service, operating five days a week, provides customers in South China with 10:30 a.m. next-day delivery to North America, FedEx said.
“With nearly 40 percent of all foreign direct investment flowing into China earmarked for the Pearl River Delta, the region has clearly become the primary driver of China’s booming economy,” said David L. Cunningham Jr., president of the Asia Pacific Division of FedEx Express, the largest operating unit of FedEx Corp. “The result is a distinct need for a transportation and logistics system that is able to connect Southern China to the rest of the world.”
Guangdong, the province in which Shenzhen is located, is China’s top manufacturing performer. It has generated $124.6 billion in foreign trade in the first six months of this year alone, a 27.3 percent year-over-year increase, FedEx said, citing the Guangdong Customs Department’s July 2003 report.
