FedEx Express has announced the opening of its branch in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, located inEastern China between Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou, to meet the growing demand for domestic and
international delivery services in China.The 374 sqm facility has an advanced, specialized warehouse and an inbound and outboundsorting system, which can sort up to 450 packages per hour, FedEx China announced.
Domestic shipments will be channelled through the Hangzhou-based China Regional Hub, fromwhere packages will be sorted and sent for next-business-day, time-definite delivery to more than30 cities and through day-definite service to more than 200 cities.
International packages will be transported to the FedEx Shanghai Gateway at Pudong Airportand loaded onto FedEx MD-11 and A-310 freighters to be connected with the FedEx global network.
“The establishment of our state-of-the-art Huzhou branch will help meet the demand for fast,reliable domestic and international service by Huzhou’s high-tech and modern manufacturingindustry, which accounts for 50% of the city’s industrial GDP,” said Jimmy Chen, regional vicepresident, domestic service, FedEx China.
Huzhou is an example of China’s booming second- and third-tier cities. The city’s rapideconomic development, strong manufacturing base and increasing export volume have brought about awealth of new commercial opportunities to the logistics industry. In 2006 alone, Huzhou’s volume offoreign trade exceeded US$3 billion, a 32.6% year-on-year increase.
