FedEx Express received delivery of its first Boeing 767-300 freighter on Wednesday. FedEx says the purchase is part of the Memphis-based company’s strategy to modernize its fleet with more efficient freighters.
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D.C. United rolled out a few political backers and ambitious plans for a stadium in Prince George’s County, Md., at a press conference on Monday. More: continued here
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KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) – FedEx has bought 125 acres of land a few miles from the Piedmont Triad International Airport, but the company won’t say if it will be home to a regional shipping center. More: continued here
YouSendIt, an online file transfer service with a focus on businesses, is removing the beta label from an Outlook plugin that automatically reroutes large attachments through its so-called “FedEx for the internet” system. Email accounts tend to place a really low caps on attachments – don’t even think about sending 2GB of movies to your…
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MEMPHIS — FedEx Corp. announced Wednesday a general rate increase of 5.5 percent for its FedEx Freight trucking division, to take effect Jan. 14. The Memphis-based shipping company noted a 6 percent drop in less-than-truckload shipments with FedEx Freight in second-quarter earnings report last week. The demand for freight shipping is “severely restrained” by the…