TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS

 

Led by the FedEx World Headquarters, Memphis is centrally located in the United States and a hub for all modes of transportation across the country and beyond, creating jobs and opportunities in our city and connecting us all over the world.

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• International gateway for product export and import via four Foreign Trade Zones

• Home to the FedEx World Hub and major hubs for UPS, the U.S. Postal Service, and the Air National Guard.

• The Memphis workforce has more experienced logistics workers per capita than any other top 100 U.S. city, based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

• Memphis was ranked as the number 1 “Logistics Leader” in the country and was ranked second globally by Business Facilities magazine in 2016.

• Memphis ranked 4th for “Best Cost of Living” in 2015 by Business Facilities magazine. 

• Memphis ranked 26th out of 100 U.S. metros in total value of products exported in 2015, exporting over $11.8 billion.

• Global Trade magazine named Memphis one of the “America’s Best Cities for Global Trade,”ranking Memphis 3rd for best infrastructure in 2015.

• For 23 years, Memphis International Airport, “America’s Aerotropolis” has been the busiest cargo airport in North America.

• Weather does not impact operations at Memphis International Airport 99.2% of the time.

• Memphis International Airport was ranked No. 1 for mobile data coverage among the top 50 airports by RootMetrics in 2015.

• I-40 connects the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and runs directly through Memphis. The stretch between Memphis and Little Rock is the 3rd-busiest trucking corridor in the nation.

• Memphis is the halfway point of the new 2,600-mile, I-69 superhighway connecting Canada to Mexico currently under construction. 

• Memphis is the 3rd-largest rail center in the United States behind Chicago and St. Louis.

• Memphis is one of four U.S. cities with five Class I railroads: BNSF, Canadian National, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific. 

• Memphis is home to five of the largest wide-span cranes in the country because of BNSF’s $200 million newly expanded intermodal facility.

• Home to nine fully-operational rail yards with a total current container capacity of more than 2 million annual lifts 

• By train, Memphis can reach 45 states (including Canada and Mexico) within 2 days.

• Single system shipment to all 48 contiguous states, and Alaska, Mexico, and Canada

• The International Port of Memphis is the 5th-largest inland port in the United States and 2nd-largest inland port on the shallow draft portion of the Mississippi River.

• The largest still water harbor on the Mississippi River

• Port of Memphis handles more than 14.7 million tons annually.

• The International Port of Memphis is also home to the Valero petroleum refinery, the only refinery in the State of Tennessee.

 

LEADING INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE

 

From well-known care from organizations like St. Jude to excellence in health science education, award-winning primary care and a hub of medical device manufacturing, Memphis leads the way in healthcare on all fronts.

Shelby County is the 2nd-largest orthopedic device manufacturing center in the U.S.

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Home to divisional or corporate headquarters to orthopedic and medical device leaders: Medtronic, MicroPort Orthopedics, Smith & Nephew and Wright Medical.

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Founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, Memphis is home to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

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• The premier center for the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases

• The first and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute, receiving an “exceptional” score, the highest rating awarded.

• St. Jude was ranked as the #4 hospital in the country for Children’s Cancer on U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Hospitals in the U.S.” list in 2016.

• Ranked 35th on Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work” for in 2016

• ALSAC/St. Jude is America’s 5th largest healthcare charity, according to Forbes’ 2016 list of “50 Largest U.S. Charities.”

• Ranked 47th on Forbes 2016 list of “America’s Best Midsize Employers“

• St. Jude made the Becker Hospital Review magazine’s 2016 “100 Great Hospitals in America” and the 2016 “150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” list.

• Employs more than 3,200 clinicians, researchers, postdoctoral fellows, administrators and information technology specialists from around the globe, including Peter Doherty, PhD, of the Department of Immunology. Dr. Doherty was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for key discoveries he made about the workings of the immune system. 
   

Baptist Memorial Hospital has six metro hospitals, the Reynolds Hospice House and an expanding number of physician clinics and clinical specialties.
 

• Mid-Southerners have selected Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis as their preferred hospital choice for quality in the National Research Corporation’s annual Healthcare Market Guide Study’s “Consumer Choice” award for 20 years in a row as of 2016.

• Baptist was awarded the only Epic 10-Star rating of any hospital nationwide for the successful implementation of e-health records across the hospital system.
   

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare operates seven hospitals in the Memphis area, including Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center – the Mid-South’s premier pediatric health care provider.
 

• Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare ranked as the Best Hospital in Memphis and the #3 hospital system in Tennessee by U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 “Best Hospitals” list.

• Methodist ranked as “High Performing” in five adult specialties, and among the top 50 U.S hospitals in seven pediatric specialties on the U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 “Best Hospitals” list.

• Methodist was named one of the “150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” by Becker’s Healthcaremagazine in 2016.

• Methodist University Hospital conducts the Mid-South’s only minimally invasive integrated surgical procedure that removes colon polyps.

• Le Bonheur’s Children’s Hospital, part of the Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare system, treats more than 200,000 children each year.

• LeBonheur Children’s has been named one of U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 Best Children’s Hospitals, and is ranked nationally in seven specialties.

• Le Bonheur is the only pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center in the region certified by the American College of Surgeons. With over 34,000 square feet, the trauma center serves the entire region, receiving an average of 220 traumas per day.

• Le Bonheur’s Neuroscience Institute, in conjunction with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, is home to one of the nation’s largest brain tumor programs. Le Bonheur Children’s receives brain tumor patients from over 40 states, and employs 3 pediatric neurosurgeons.

• In 2011, Le Bonheur and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center joined forces to create the region’s only multi-specialty physician practice focused solely on pediatrics.  University of Tennessee Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists(ULPS) includes more than 100 pediatric subspecialists.
   

Regional One Health is home to one of the busiest Level 1 Trauma Center in the nation, with approximately 4,500 admissions annually.
 

• Regional One Health was named one of the “150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” by Becker’s Healthcare magazine in 2015.

• The Med is home to the Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center, where more than 1,500 premature or critically ill newborns are treated each year.

• The Firefighters Regional Burn Center at the Med has earned verification for the American Burn Association and the American College of Surgeons making it the only full-service burn center within 150 miles of Memphis.

Memphis is home to the Church Health Center (CHC), a faith-based clinic that provides quality, affordable healthcare to 50,000 working, uninsured people and their families. In the United States, the CHC is the largest faith-based clinic of its kind.
 

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, one of four medical schools in the State of Tennessee,  spun off two new bioscience companies and a research park that are making national headlines: GTx – a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to men’s health and Luminetx – a bioscience technologies company that made headlines with THE VEINVIEWER, recognized by Time Magazine as one of the most innovative medical inventions of the year.

The College of Medicine is affiliated with three of the six level 1 trauma centers in the State of Tennessee.
 

• The 1996 Nobel Prize was awarded to Dr. Peter C. Doherty in the ‘Physiology or Medicine’ category. Dr. Doherty is an adjunct faculty member for the College of Medicine’s pediatric department.

• Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs underwent a complete liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital in 2009 performed by James D. Eason, M.D., FACS, a UTHSC graduate and practicing physician at Methodist University Hospital.  

• UTHSC’s Executive Vice Chancellor Dr. Kennard Brown is an active board member for The Memphis Medical District Collaborative, a local non-profit entity dedicated to improving the livability and overall prosperity of Memphis’ Medical District. 

• The University of Tennessee College of Medicine launches the world’s first Mobile Stroke Unit with Advanced CT imaging capabilities including CT Angiography Imaging for brain and blood vessels and producing advanced quality imaging for stroke diagnosis and noninvasive CT-angiography with a Siemens SOMATOM® Scope CT scanner.

• In February 2016, the College of Health Professions opened the only student-run pro bono occupational therapy Clinic in the Nations, the Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy Center.

• UTHSC has been awarded Top Workplace in 2014 & 2015 by the Commercial Appeal.

• UTHSC has been named a Tennessee Healthy Workplace for two years in a row by the Healthier Tennessee Workplace program.
   

UT / Baptist Research Park – currently  under construction – is 1.2 million square feet of lab research, education and business development space, is expected to be completed in six phases over a 10-year period, allowing flexibility to meet current and future bioscience needs.