A major transportation company has selected Allegany County for its newest distribution center.

FedEx Ground – a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. – will open a 193,000 square-foot facility in the Mexico Farms area of Allegany County. The distribution center will bring substantial job creation to Western Maryland over the next few years, tripling the company’s workforce in the county.

Construction on the 40-acre site is expected to begin within the next couple months, according to the Cumberland Times-News . The company anticipates being up-and-running by 2022.

With several announcements surrounding Maryland’s distribution and logistics sector  this year, the industry continues to thrive throughout the state. With more than 9,000 distribution and logistics companies, and the fifth highest workforce concentration of logisticians, Maryland’s prime geographic location and robust transportation infrastructure provides the total package for companies looking to reach customers quickly and easily.

With more than 180,000 employees, FedEx Ground services more than 640 distribution and pickup-and-delivery hubs. According to the company's latest fiscal quarter results, FedEx Ground moved more than 12 million packages per day, and brought in $30 billion during fiscal year 2021.

FedEx Corp. recently announced that it has experienced tremendous job growth  during the pandemic, increasing employment by more than nine percent, while e-commerce sales skyrocketed nearly 40 percent between 2020 - 2021.