FedEx Ground, the small-package ground delivery unit of FedEx Corp., has chosen a 27-acre site in Pompano Beach, Fla., for a 215,000 square-foot automated distribution facility.
Scheduled to open by summer 2006, it will consolidate current operations in Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach.
The new distribution center will be triple the size of the two existing facilities. It will have 356 employees and independent contractors, an increase from the current workforce of 200. The automated terminal will be equipped with advanced material handling systems capable of processing more than 10,000 packages per hour.
The Florida plan is part of the company's $1.8 billion network expansion which includes construction of nine new hubs, enlarging 30 existing hubs and relocating nearly 290 pickup and delivery terminals. By the end of fiscal year 2010, the small-package unit will handle nearly double the company's average daily hub volume. Four new hubs are now under construction in Cincinnati, Dallas, Memphis and Hagerstown, Md.; these will open later this year and in 2006.
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