Singapore, June 20, 2024 – Federal Express Corporation, one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, has continued to expand its sustainability efforts across the Asia Pacific region incorporating both strategies to reduce emissions from its operations and increased support of environment-based community action.

Making Operations More Sustainable

In pursuit of company-wide global sustainability goals, FedEx is working across its operations to reduce emissions and improve the energy efficiency of its fleet and facilities.

Vehicle electrification is a key pillar of our efforts to reduce emissions in our network, including a phased approach to transitioning our global pick-up and delivery fleet to electric vehicles (EVs). In Fiscal Year 2023, FedEx operated 7,136 on- and off-road EVs globally[1]. Additions to the Asia Pacific region EV fleet were made in Malaysia, and in China, EVs grew to represent 20% of the country’s fleet of pick-up and delivery vehicles in fiscal year 2024. A new record was set with the first cross border EV delivery between Malaysia and Singapore. Electric tricycles were also added to the FedEx surface fleet in Taiwan demonstrating how the company is innovating to find the vehicle solutions that are best suited to local operating environments.

Sustainability is also being incorporated in FedEx infrastructure from the ground up. In FY 2023, thirty-four global facilities[2] generated on- or off-site solar energy including the surface operations station in Beijing. This rooftop solar array in Beijing is estimated to reduce 350 tons of CO2 emissions from conventional coal-fired thermal power each year.

New facilities, like the regional headquarters in Singapore, integrate energy efficiency certifications for lighting, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. The company’s China headquarters in Shanghai, which opened in January 2024, is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certified.