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Retail Asia09/10/2023

UPS has entered into an agreement with private equity firm Quad-C Management to acquire MNX Global Logistics (MNX), a time-critical logistics provider with clients in the aerospace, healthcare and pharma industries. UPS will look to leverage MNX’s specialist capabilities in airport on ground (AOG) delivery services and temperature-controlled logistics for its healthcare unit and clinical […]

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Retail Asia22/11/2021

Alphabet Inc’s Waymo said on Wednesday it is expanding its partnership with United Parcel Service Inc to move freight using autonomous trucks between two of the parcel delivery company’s Texas facilities during the holiday season. Waymo Via, the company’s delivery operation, began its partnership with UPS in early 2020 when it shuttled packages for the […]

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Retail Asia01/07/2021

Express delivery giants like DHL and UPS are increasing their transport capacity to Vietnam thanks to rising demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Germany-headquartered DHL Express recently announced a new delivery route from Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh City using wide-body Airbus A330 aircraft. There would be six one-way trips a week, each with […]

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Retail Asia21/11/2019

UPS announced a series of service enhancements that will benefit up to 1.4 million postal codes across 41 countries and territories in the Asia Pacific region, opening opportunities for businesses to develop more resilient supply chain strategies as they look within the region for growth. “Asia is an incredibly dynamic, evolving region, and trade in […]

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Retail Asia20/08/2019

Express firm UPS has revealed a series of investments in Asia that it claimed would increase its service footprint and expedite delivery times. The company said that in the first half of the year it had invested in the following: • Shenzhen Asia Pacific Air Hub upgrades that increased the hub’s processing capacity by nearly […]

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Retail Asia10/07/2019

The series of service enhancements UPS revealed today impact almost 1.4 million postal codes in 41 countries and territories across the Asia Pacific region, enabling worldwide connectivity for over 22 million businesses. “At the root of the investments in our Smart Logistics Network is a simple desire to make global commerce easier for Asian businesses—because […]

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Retail Asia12/10/2018

Today announced the global expansion of UPS My Choice service to 96 additional countries and territories, bringing the total to 112 served. With the entrance into countries and regions in Asia Pacific, Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Caribbean and Central and South America, Middle East and Oceania, and an expansion in Europe, this package-delivery management service […]

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Retail Asia19/06/2018

UPS Hong Kong will partner with EF Lockers or SF Stores to offer greater flexibility for cross-border e-commerce deliveries, with the introduction of alternative delivery locations (ADLs). Shoppers will receive a text alert as the shipment arrives in Hong Kong, and be given the option to collect it from a designated alternative location – either […]

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Retail Asia17/04/2018

Earlier this week, UPS heralded the most recent additions to its Marketplace Shipping offering, which it described as a technology solution that enables merchants to view, process, and ship orders from various e-commerce marketplaces and online stores through a single online interface. UPS introduced marketplace shipping four years ago to provide customers with a simple option for getting their […]

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Retail Asia12/04/2018

Nearly half of online shoppers in Asia are dissatisfied with the experience, according to the latest UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper study. With negativity from 43 per cent of Asian shoppers surveyed, they again emerged the least satisfied of shoppers internationally. The rate of 57 per cent satisfaction was actually an improvement on 2015, […]

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Retail Asia05/02/2018

UPS announced it has ordered 14 Boeing 747-8 cargo jets and four new Boeing 767 aircraft to provide additional capacity in response to accelerating demand for the company’s air services. All of the new aircraft will be added to the existing fleet and no existing aircraft are being replaced. The aircraft will be delivered on […]

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Retail Asia02/10/2017

UPS and SF Holding, the parent company of SF Express, have announced the approval of their planned joint venture by China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM). The JV enables UPS and SF to collaborate on development and provision of international delivery services from, initially, China to the US and, in the future, to other trade lanes. […]

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Retail Asia22/08/2017

UPS said it will start training student delivery drivers to spot and identify road hazards using virtual reality (VR) headsets that vividly simulate the experience of driving on city streets while teaching a more memorable classroom lesson. The company will begin launching VR training in September at its nine UPS Integrad training facilities. The adoption […]

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Retail Asia16/08/2017

UPS announced the appointment of Harld Peters as the new president of UPS China. A UPS veteran with 18 years of logistics experience, Peters will be responsible for leading strategic initiatives across UPS’s package delivery and supply chain operations in China. Peters succeeds Richard Loi, who will be retiring after 26 years of dedicated service […]

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Retail Asia04/08/2017

UPS is expanding its ability to ship alcohol, wine and beer to consumers around the world. Using one of the UPS Express shipping services, wine connoisseurs can have their favourite cases of wine shipped directly from the vineyards to their home. UPS is helping wineries reach consumers living in 24 of the top 35 wine […]

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Retail Asia21/06/2017

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UPS announced a new peak charge applicable during selected weeks in November and December 2017 for US residential, large packages and packages over maximum limits. The new charge is designed to enable UPS to continue to provide best-in-class value to customers while offsetting some of the additional expenses incurred during significant volume surges. “We’re focused […]

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Retail Asia16/06/2017

Companies must adapt amid rapid change fuelled chiefly by millennials and a shift to e-marketplaces; A surge of purchases coming directly from manufacturers and e-marketplaces, bypassing distributors Asset-light e-marketplaces and other nontraditional shopping channels, combined with shifting demographics, are upending industrial distributors’ inventory-heavy model more rapidly than previously thought. As a result, distributors must quickly […]

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Retail Asia26/05/2017

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UPS and SF Holding, the parent company of SF Express, today announced plans to establish a joint venture and collaborate to develop and provide international delivery services initially from China to the US, with expansion plans for other destinations. Through this agreement the parties will leverage their complementary networks, service portfolios, technologies and logistics expertise. The […]

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Retail Asia03/04/2017

UPS announced the addition of six stations to its Preferred full and less-than-container load (FCL and LCL) multimodal rail service between Europe and China. The additional stations will give customers moving goods on the world’s largest trade lane more options to reduce supply chain costs and better balance cost/time-in-transit requirements. Changsha, Chongqing, Suzhou and Wuhan […]

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Retail Asia09/11/2016

UPS has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Marken, a supply chain company dedicated to the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. The transaction is expected to close by December 31, 2016. “Healthcare logistics is a strategic market for UPS,” said Teresa Finley, chief marketing and business services officer at UPS. “Our acquisition of […]

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