FedEx has extended its international freight forwarding presence with seven new offices in Asia andLatin America and plans further expansion around the world with own facilities and alliances.
In Asia, the group’s ocean and air freight forwarding company, FedEx Trade Networks, hasopened new facilities in Singapore, Taiwan, and in Qingdao, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China.These new offices support the company’s international air freight forwarding operations and providecomprehensive coverage in key Asia-Pacific trade lanes. In Latin America, the company opened an airand ocean forwarding office in São Paulo, Brazil.
These openings support the company’s continuing global freight forwarding expansion plans,which include opening additional facilities and establishing alliances throughout Asia, Europe, theMiddle East, Africa and Latin America, the group announced. FedEx Trade Networks, part of FedExExpress and with more than 3,300 employees, already opened flagship Asia air freight forwardingoperations in Hong Kong and Shanghai last year.
“Global trade trends continue to point toward a demand for both air and ocean freightforwarding services,” said G. Edmond Clark, president and CEO, FedEx Trade Networks. “Expanding thefootprint of FedEx Trade Networks in critical growth markets will enable us to deliver afull-service transportation solution and better serve the global supply chain needs of ourcustomers.”
Customer benefits will include enhanced global freight forwarding services, end-to-endmultimodal solutions, better regional access to specific services such as international directdistribution and increased access to the FedEx global network.
“By enhancing our global forwarding capabilities and increasing our local market presence, weare providing an integrated and comprehensive solution for all our customers seeking to expandtheir business globally,” said Fred Schardt, executive vice president and COO, FedEx TradeNetworks.
