FedEx Corporation has opened an automated sorting facility at its Memphis World Hub. The LEED Certified building, which is now fully operational ahead of the holiday peak season, spans 1.3 million square feet across four levels, includes11 miles of conveyor belt, has dedicated space for bulky, non-conveyable shipments, and can sort 56,000 packages per hour.
Its technology includes six-sided scanning, which allows for packages to be scanned on all sides to capture size and barcode information for accuracy and includes new weighing and dimensioning systems and is equipped with 1,000 cameras to monitor the flow of packages.
It also allows packages to be sorted in one building during bad weather.
Memphis is the largest sort facility in the FedEx global network, with 13,000 team members, spanning 940 acres with 171 aircraft gates and 84 miles of conveyor belt.