In a Monday press release, FedEx Freight, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., said the company continues its “aggressive nationwide expansion by opening four new service centers and expanding a fifth

facility to meet growing customer demand throughout the United States.”
Newly-constructed and recently-opened facilities include service centers in Des Plaines, Ill., Salem, Ore., Texarkana, Ark. and Springfield, Mass. The company has also add a building at the company's Long Island center in West Babylon, N.Y.
While the new Des Plaines, Salem and Texarkana centers replace older facilities in their respective areas, the center in Springfield marks the first FedEx Freight facility in that area. Increasing breadth of service to the busy I-90 and I-91 corridors and the New England region, the center includes 23 doors and 18,000 square feet of dock, office and shop space on a four-acre site. The Springfield facility employs 20 full- and part-time employees.
The new 44,000-sq.-ft. facility in Des Plaines, Ill., has 76 service doors. The 10,000-sq.-ft. Salem, Ore., center has 28 service doors on a six-acre site, the facility replaces a 24-door center.
The Texarkana service center features 36 doors, replacing a 24-door, three-acre complex.
These service center openings follow other recent expansions, including the addition of a new center in Gardena, Calif., and expanded facilities in Youngstown, Ohio, and Pocono Summit, Pa. FedEx Freight also recently announced plans for a new center near Sacramento, Calif., scheduled to open in 2006.
For more information, visit fedex.com.