FedEx Express has extended its next-business-day domestic express service in China, which was onlylaunched on May 28, from 19 to 30 cities. FedEx also offers 48-hour day-definite service in more
than 200 cities and regions in China.“Businesses in China have been waiting for FedEx to make this time-definite serviceavailable,” said David L. Cunningham, Jr., president, Asia Pacific, FedEx Express. “We have seenhealthy and encouraging demand from our existing international customers and potential newcustomers. Since we began operations less than a month ago, thousands of domestic express packageshave already passed through our hub in Hangzhou.”
FedEx’s Chinese domestic express network includes a hub-and-spoke system centred at HangzhouXiaoshan International Airport, in East China’s Zhejiang Province. The newly established hub isinitially able to sort up to 9,000 packages per hour. Domestic carrier, Okay Airways, is providingair transportation using three Boeing 737 freighters which fly nightly circular routes coveringmajor destinations.
