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UPS extends express options

UPS is expanding its Worldwide Express service to more than 41,000 new postal codes around the world, including 1,371 post codes in the UK and nearly 15,000 in Europe. It gives earlier money back guaranteed-delivery options for customers who previously had only end-of-day money back guarantee delivery options. [+]

UPS opens UK logistics hub

UPS has officially opened a new contract logistics facility at Birch Coppice Business Park in North Warwickshire, to meet growing demand from retail and high-tech customers. The 13,000sq m space is close to the existing package sorting hub and the UPS hub at East Midlands Airport. [+]

UPS capital buys G4S logistics arm

UPS supply chain financial arm, is to buy the Insured Parcel Services (IPS) business of G4S International Logistics (G4Si). It follows UPS Capital's recent acquisition of jewellry logistics company Parcel Pro. [+]

UPS opens Netherlands healthcare centre

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 ... [+]

The jewel in UPS’s crown

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 ... [+]

Olympic Flame aloft again

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 ... [+]

UPS expands heavyweight service

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 ... [+]

UPS to buy Polish healthcare specialist

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 ... [+]

UPS expands the options

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 ... [+]

UPS in Myanmar market

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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