FedEx is continuing to shrink its US ground and express footprint under the Network 2.0 program, and the latest round of changes reaches into Tennessee and Georgia. The company confirmed plans to close facilities in Cleveland, Tennessee and Dalton, Georgia, and to reduce staffing at a third site in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The moves are part of a broader consolidation that FedEx has described as an effort to combine overlapping Express and Ground operations into shared stations.
Network 2.0 has already produced more than 200 facility closures nationally, and FedEx has signaled that the program could eventually affect more than 475 stations. Recent filings and local reporting place the current round at roughly 500 positions across several states, with WARN notices showing job impacts in Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Texas, California and Arizona.
The Southeast is absorbing the change on both sides of the ledger. While FedEx retires smaller stations, it is also investing about 18 million dollars to expand its Memphis hub, adding roughly half a million square feet to the freight canopy at the International Priority Freight Shipment Facility. That construction is phased and scheduled to finish in summer 2028.
For regional carriers and shippers, the practical effect is a redrawn service map. Freight that once moved through Cleveland or Dalton will be rerouted to consolidated stations, changing pickup windows, dock scheduling and final mile coverage for shippers in southeast Tennessee and northwest Georgia. Carriers that subcontract linehaul work to FedEx networks are reviewing lane assignments as the closures take effect.
Source: LocalMemphis - https://www.localmemphis.com/article/money/business/memphis-based-fedex-close-two-facilities-reduce-staff-at-third-tennessee-georgia/522-b7bde1ff-9e8d-4773-9d9b-1a293600d2ba