FedEx Express announced last week it has signed an agreement with Guangdong Airport Authority Logistics Company to expand and upgrade the FedEx Guangzhou Gateway by establishing a new operations center at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.

The new ‘FedEx South China Operations Centre’ will cover an area of over 41,000 square metrers, more than double the size of its existing gateway, and is scheduled for operations in 2027.

The facility will connect outbound shipments from southern China with the FedEx international network through the Asia Pacific hub, where it will also receive and process inbound shipments.

The operations center will include offices, state-of-the art sorting systems, operations areas and a warehouse with a capacity to sort up to 25,000 packages and documents per hour, three times the sorting efficiency of the current facility.

FedEx’s Asia Pacific Hub at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport connects Asian customers to the US and North American network through Anchorage and Memphis (USA), and the European network through Paris (France) and Cologne (Germany).

The FedEx Asia Pacific Hub currently operates more than 210 flights per week, with the Guangzhou gateway handling approximately 40 percent of the hub’s import and export cargo volume.