Online shopping led FedEx festival freight growth

Fedexcorp. It is expected that December 2 this year will usher in the busiest day of FedEx, the company on the day of the global network is expected to transport more than 22 million pieces of goods.

FedEx expects its global network to deliver more than 85 million shipments in the busiest week of the year from December 1 to 7th, an increase of 13% per cent over a year earlier.

FedEx Asia Pacific President Cunningham said: "In addition to E-commerce, personal consumer electronics, apparel and luxury goods, such as retail products will lead to the increase of FedEx holiday volume, and the Asia-Pacific region in the manufacture of these goods play a very important role." With our global network and operational advantages in the Asia-Pacific region, small and large scale enterprises can benefit from our connectivity in the region and with Europe and North America. This ensures that customers will be successful during this busy shipment. ”

To this end, FedEx will recruit tens of thousands of temporary staff to help deal with the rapid increase in holiday freight. The impact of expected freight growth has been incorporated into the company's revenue guidelines issued in September this year.