Court approves Yellow Corp. terminal sales totaling $10M

Bankrupt estate has 5 owned terminals remaining to liquidate

A Delaware bankruptcy court will rule on a final distribution plan on Wednesday. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

A federal bankruptcy court in Delaware has approved purchase agreements for six of defunct Yellow Corp.’s terminals, totaling $10.2 million.

Previous filings asked for the court’s approval on the sale of four of the locations, including an 18-door terminal in Montgomery, Alabama for $375,000. That purchase agreement listed less-than-truckload carrier ArcBest (NASDAQ: ARCB) as the buyer. Buyers of the other three locations appeared to be real estate investors.

A Friday approval order from the court referenced two other locations owned by Yellow – a 56-door service center near Scranton, Pennsylvania ($3.5 million), and a 40-door terminal in Birch Run, Michigan ($683,100). Property investors were again listed as the buyers.

A September filing showed the estate had just 11 owned terminals left to sell. Yellow operated over 325 terminals before it closed in July 2023.

The court is scheduled to hold a hearing on Wednesday to rule on a final distribution plan for the estate. If approved, roughly $600 million to $700 million in remaining proceeds from liquidated assets will be distributed to creditors. The proposed plan also calls for payment of employee PTO claims.

The estate has sold nearly $2.4 billion in real estate since the liquidation began. It has also terminated leases on other properties.

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Todd Maiden

Based in Richmond, VA, Todd is the finance editor at FreightWaves. Prior to joining FreightWaves, he covered the TLs, LTLs, railroads and brokers for RBC Capital Markets and BB&T Capital Markets. Todd began his career in banking and finance before moving over to transportation equity research where he provided stock recommendations for publicly traded transportation companies.