Tag: Fedex Ground

FedEx Ground, the small-package ground delivery unit of FedEx Corp, has chosen a 75-acre site in Kennesaw, Ga., as the location for a new 247,000 square-foot automated distribution facility to be opened by summer 2006. The new facility, which will replace the current FedEx Ground terminal in Marietta, is part of the company’s USD1.8 billion network expansion plan. Announced in September 2002, the network investment includes the construction of nine new hubs, the expansion of 30 existing hubs and the relocation of nearly 290 pickup and delivery terminals. In response to increasing customer demand, the nationwide expansion will nearly double the company’s average daily hub volume package capacity to 5.3 million packages by the end of fiscal year 2010. Four new hubs currently under construction in the metro areas of Cincinnati, Dallas, Memphis and Hagerstown, Md., are scheduled to open in 2005 and 2006.

FDX Ground Facility Tour. On Thursday, we toured FedEx Ground’s 500,000 square foot Woodbridge, NJ facility, its third largest hub by volume, processing over 30,000 packages per hour. In the next eighteen months, management estimates that its New Jersey hub will grow to be the largest Ground facility by volume, eclipsing its hub in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Note from Barry Hansen: note that FDX Ground has won the LL Bean home delivery contract. Bean is the largest cataloge operator in the U.S. These are the types that the Donnelley Logisitics operation should win.

As part of a USD1.8 billion network expansion plan to nearly double average daily hub package volume capacity in North America, FedEx Ground, an operating unit of FedEx Corporation has chosen a 93-acre site in Olive Branch, Miss., as the location for the fourth of nine new package distribution hubs to be constructed over the next six years. The 330,000 square-foot facility, to be located in the DeSoto Distribution Center, will be the second major FedEx Ground sortation center in the Memphis area. When it opens in 2006, the new hub will feature the latest automated material handling technology designed to process 22,500 packages per hour and will have a workforce of approximately 60 full-time and 325 part-time workers and 70 independent contractors.