
“FedEx has changed the world by connecting people and possibilities for the last 50 years,” he said in a statement on the company’s website. “As we look toward what’s next, I have a great sense of satisfaction.”
Aside from seeing the need for national overnight delivery, Mr. Smith’s greatest innovation was a hub-and-spoke system of routes. He based the sorting of packages in Memphis, where he found an unused airplane hangar. He flew his planes at night, when the skies were relatively empty.
除了預見全國隔夜送達的需求外,史密斯先生最偉大的創新是樞紐輻射式的航線系統。他把包裹的分揀工作設在孟菲斯,在那裡他找到了一個閒置的飛機庫。他的飛機在夜間飛行,因為那時天空相對空曠。
Fred Smith, Billionaire Founder of FedEx, Is Dead at 80
His vision for how to ship packages overnight led to not just a new company, but also a new sector of the world economy and a now-familiar English verb.
聯邦快遞創辦人、億萬富翁弗雷德史密斯逝世,享年80歲
他對隔夜送達包裹的願景不僅催生了一家新公司,還創造了世界經濟的一個新領域,並催生了一個如今為人熟知的英語動詞。
(快訊)美國企業家菲德里克.史密斯(Frederick W. Smith)辭世,享壽80歲。他在1971年創辦了FedEx(聯邦快遞),並使之擴張成全世界最具代表性的快遞與物流公司之一。由於聯邦快遞是史上第一個真正整合「隔夜速遞」和「門到門航空貨運」的物流服務體系,成為業界標竿,因此史密斯被稱為「創造了一個新行業的人」。
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