Airport cargo expansion project featured in magazine debut

INDIANAPOLIS—In its first issue, Airport Improvement magazine reports expansion of the cargo-handling and apron parking areas at the Federal Express facility located at Indianapolis International will be complete by the end of 2008.

The expansion is expected to increase FedEx’s processing capacity in Indianapolis to 99,000 packages per hour, up from its current 79,000 packages per hour.

The three-phase project includes a 175,000-square-foot secondary sort building, a 40,000-square-foot aircraft maintenance hangar and an 8,000-square-foot ground support equipment building, which pushes the hub’s total growth to more than 600,000 square feet.

The work will be complete before the annual holiday rush begins in November and December.

Indianapolis is the second-largest FedEx hub in the world.