FedEx copes with company's busiest day

The busiest day in FedEx history is underway for the 285,000 team members as drivers hit the road to pick-up almost 16 million shipments around the world.

This volume represents an increase of nearly 13 percent from last year’s busiest day and is double the volume handled on an average day in the FedEx network, the company said in a statement.

FedEx expects to move more than 223 million shipments in its global networks between Thanksgiving and Christmas—a year-over-year increase of 11 percent.

More than half of the holiday season volume increase will be from FedEx SmartPost shipments. FedEx SmartPost volume is largely driven by online retailers and cataloguers who ship high volumes of lighter shipments to residential customers.

FedEx SmartPost has a completely integrated national network that picks up, sorts and delivers packages directly to US Postal service facilities for final delivery to residences.

During the week of December 13, the company expects to move more than 63 million shipments compared to last year’s busiest week of 57.5 million shipments. Items such as books from large internet retailers and retail inventory such as apparel, personal consumer electronics and luxury goods will drive FedEx holiday volumes.
(Source:www.cargonewsasia.com)