FedEx to shutter 9 New York parcel centers

Eric Kulisch

Wed, March 18, 2026 astatine 11:26 AM CDT 4 min read

FedEx Corp. plans to adjacent 9 shipping facilities successful New York and 1 successful Pennsylvania arsenic its multi-year effort to integrate bequest explicit and crushed transportation operations into 1 unified aboveground web enters its last phase, FreightWaves has learned.

Memphis, Tennessee-based FedEx (NYSE: FDX) completed its Network 2.0 consolidation programme for Canada past April and has aggressively worked since past to optimize its terminal footprint successful the United States. The conception aims to trim costly excess capableness and supply amended work by streamlining pickups and deliveries truthful astir neighborhoods are lone served by 1 van each day.

The integrated parcel and logistics elephantine has truthful acold optimized much than 360 vessel stations to grip explicit and crushed volumes, portion closing implicit 200 locations. By the extremity of 2027, the institution volition person optimized much than 900 stations and volition adjacent implicit 475 locations, representing a 30% simplification successful its nationalist installation footprint, said Scott Ray, main operating serviceman and president of U.S. and Canada aboveground operations astatine past month’s Investor Day event.

Nearly 25% of FedEx’s eligible U.S. and Canadian mean regular measurement present flows done hundreds of reprogrammed facilities, helium said.

FedEx spokesperson David Westrick disclosed the latest circular of closures successful an email to FreightWaves. Nine locations successful New York are designated to extremity operations successful June. They are:

• Binghamton – 2123 Link Dr., Binghamton NY

• Elmira – 358 Sing Sing Rd., Horseheads NY

• Syracuse – 6313 Running Ridge, North Syracuse NY

• Buffalo – 299 Cayuga Rd., Cheektowaga NY

• Plattsburgh – 768 Route 3, Plattsburgh, NY

• Ithaca – 747 Warren Rd., Ithaca, NY

• Conklin – 299 Broome Corporate Pkway, Conklin, NY

• Watertown – 22530 Fisher Rd., Watertown, NY

• Utica – 115 Dry Rd., Oriskany, NY

Another facility, connected Sathers Drive successful Pittston, Pennsylvania, is slated to unopen down connected May 2. Sixty-three employees volition beryllium laid off, according to an beforehand announcement the institution filed with authorities labour agencies. The FedEx installation successful adjacent Wilkes Barre volition instrumentality implicit the transportation functions carried retired by the Pittston vessel center. In the Scranton country determination are presently 3 facilities providing service. Some Pittston workers volition beryllium offered different roles wrong the company, FedEx said.

Network 2.0 was conceived successful precocious 2022 to align capableness with request arsenic e-commerce volumes normalized aft the pandemic spike and FedEx began losing marketplace stock to Amazon and new, autarkic couriers. A ample portion of the request diminution stemmed from a conscious determination to deemphasize low-margin last-mile transportation and absorption connected heavyweight, planetary and long-distance bundle service.