FedEx Corp. has submitted preliminary plans to local authorities for a new 1.6 million-square-foot, five-story ecommerce sorting facility at its Memphis world hub.
The plans are part of the company’s ongoing efforts to expand capacity at its busiest global logistics hub.
The project, known internally as “Hercules,” was described in a site plan application filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning and Development. The application lists GFT Infrastructure Inc. as the engineer and identifies the site on FedEx property at Memphis International Airport.
Preliminary plans for new FedEx ecommerce sorting center
According to the preliminary plans, the facility would be five stories tall. It would encompass about 1.6 million square feet of sorting space to handle small-package ecommerce volume. It also would sit just south of an automated sort building that opened in late 2024. Additionally, it would connect to that structure by an elevated bridge, forming an expanded, integrated sort complex.
In a letter of intent submitted with the application, the project engineer told the local planning board that the Hercules building would house a state-of-the-art automated sort system. The engineer plans to submit the final design documents for review in June.
The new facility is consistent with FedEx’s recent network upgrades in Memphis. In October 2024, FedEx unveiled a 1.3 million-square-foot automated sorting center at the World Hub. Internally, it calls the center Secondary 25. It can sort an estimated 56,000 packages per hour, and FedEx intends for it to improve efficiency across the company’s network.
Lisa Lisson, president of air operations for FedEx, said at the time the new sort of facility underscores the hub’s significant role in the company’s logistics platform.
“Modernizing the Memphis World Hub is a key step in our network transformation,” she said in a company news release.
FedEx’s World Hub at Memphis International Airport is one of the busiest cargo airports in the United States and serves as the cornerstone of the company’s air-ground distribution network, handling hundreds of thousands of packages each day and linking shipments across the globe.
Officials with FedEx did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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