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UPS is to build a new healthcare distribution centre in Roermond, the Netherlands. The announcement comes just a month after the carrier opened a dedicated healthcare air freight forwarding facility at Schiphol Airport.
The new Roermond facility, which will be around 28,000sq m and provide 41,000 pallet places, is scheduled to be completed in January 2016.
It will be close to UPS’s European air hub at Cologne/Bonn airport in Germany, allowing for ...
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UPS Capital, the financial, insurance and payment services arm of the US-based express giant, has acquired Parcel Pro, an independent logistics provider to the jewellery, wristwatch and collectibles industries. Parcel Pro provides online tracking and visibility, e-reporting, web access and shipping, including via smart phone applications and has locations in ...
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The Olympic Flame took to the skies at Athens airport on 18 May, courtesy of UPS. One of the express carrier's planes collected it and moved it to Cologne Bonn airport and then to Philadelphia, for the Special Olympics in Los Angeles from 25 July. The summer games attract 7,000 ...
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UPS has expanded its Worldwide Express Freight service for urgent and high-value international heavyweight shipments in 12 new origin (Chile, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Slovakia, Turkey and Vietnam) and nine new destination countries ( Chile, Indonesia, Israel, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Turkey ...
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UPS has agreed terms with Poland-based investment fund ORTIE to acquire its pharmaceutical logistics company Poltraf . UPS expects to complete the transaction in the first half of 2015. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.
The acquisition will further strengthen UPS's healthcare expertise in the fast-growing markets of Central ...
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UPS is to expand its UPS My Choice® and the UPS Access Point network, aimed at helping retailers and consumers world to manage their residential package deliveries.
UPS My Choice is now available in the UK and 15 other countries, having initially been launched in the US. Benefits include: advance delivery ...
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UPS is to offer inbound and outbound air and ocean freight services in Myanmar for the first time. Available services will initially include Air Freight Direct, Air Freight Consolidated, Full Container Load and Less-than Container Load services.
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UPS has set a new goal to cut its carbon emissions by 20% after reaching its 2016 three years early. The express logistics firm had aimed to reduce its air and ground fleet's carbon output by 10% by 2016.
UPS describes its current 3,647 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles worldwide ...
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The Unite trade union is comparing parcels carrier UPS to a Victorian mill owner as it stepped up a ten month campaign to highlight the ‘impossible workloads’ faced by employees. The union has started an intensive leafleting campaign at UPS London depots in late January with demonstrations at Camden, the ...
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UPS is offering a full container load (FCL) rail service from China to Europe It is available from Chengdu to Lodz, Poland, and from Zhengzhou to Hamburg, Germany. UPS says the service is up to 50% than ocean freight and 70% cheaper than air freight, with UPS technology providing end-to-end ...
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