Air Transport Services Group has announced that its subsidiary LGSTX Services has been awarded a contract with the US Postal Service to design, install and operate a Surface Transfer Centre, in Aurora, Illinois.

LGSTX Services will be responsible for organising and managing the operation of the facility, within which they plan to hire 125 full time employees.

“We are honoured to be awarded this new US Postal Service location,” said Jim Pradetto, president of LGSTX Services. “The level of expertise we developed while operating STC facilities in Dallas, Memphis and Indianapolis gives us the ability to start up quickly, with state-of-the-art material handling systems, and deliver consistently high quality service to the customer from day one.”