News from FedEx

FedEx Trade Networks has launched new freight forwarding operations in its Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region, with new offices in Le Havre (France), Barcelona (Spain), Bratislava (Slovakia), Istanbul (Turkey) and Delhi (India).

The new operations in Europe and the Indian Subcontinent will give FedEx Trade Networks customers increased access to major global markets, both inbound and outbound.

Customers will also benefit from flexible freight forwarding solutions that employ a variety of value-added services, including the ability to track and analyse their complete supply chain and managed control of their goods in transit from point of origin to final-mile delivery.

As part of an aggressive global expansion plan, FedEx has opened a total of 38 new offices around the world since 2008, in addition to its more than seventy locations in the US and Canada.

Other locations include Hungary, the Czech Republic, Spain (Madrid), Italy, Germany (Frankfurt and Hamburg) the UAE, Poland (Gdynia and Warsaw), Belgium (Brussels and Antwerp), the UK (Manchester and London), France (Paris), The Netherlands (Amsterdam and Rotterdam), India (Mumbai and Chennai), Mexico, Brazil, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Tianjin, Xiamen, Dalian and Ningbo. The company also has a representative office in Vietnam.

New Singapore regional hub

FedEx Express is building a new FedEx Singapore Regional Hub within the Air Cargo Express (ACE) Hub at Singapore Changi Airport.

The 282,700 sq.ft facility is the second largest operation facility in the Asia-Pacific region, after the Asia-Pacific hub located in Guangzhou, southern China.

Scheduled for completion in the second half of 2012, the FedEx Singapore Regional Hub will integrate delivery, pick-up and air operations under one roof.

The FedEx Singapore Regional Hub is strategically located within Changi Airport’s free trade zone, beside the Airport Logistics Park of Singapore.

It will feature a five-belt sort system with the capacity to sort up to 9,000 packages per hour and house more than 250 delivery vans. It will also include airside infrastructure such as two new aircraft parking bays as well as a special on-site facilitation by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority and Singapore Customs for efficient cargo clearance.