Kansas City Regional Clean Cities is lending a hand with urban clean fuel projects for UPS in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. We’ll try and keep the superlatives to a minimum: UPS is the biggest for-hire freight trucking company in North America—by revenue ($71.9 billion in 2019), by income ($4.8 billion) and by employee count (481,000). FedEx is a close second, but from there, it’s a long way down to the next in line. XPO Logistics, ranked #3 by Transport Topics, has less than one-quarter the revenue, fewer than one-quarter the employees, and for 2019 had less than one-tenth the income of Big Brown. UPS operates nearly 125,000 vehicles globally. These range from Class 8 tractors to motorcycles, and they handle long-haul freight, cross-town courier deliveries, and everything in between. When a company this big moves towards alternative fuels, it does so in a big way. To date, UPS has embraced propane, hybrid-electric and hydraulic hybrid, ethanol, liquefied natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), and all-electric technologies in different locations and duty cycles. Through 2019, they’d already put more than 10,300 alternative fuel and advanced technology units on the road – not quite ten percent of their global fleet.
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UPS Saturday deliveries are being introduced in the UK and seven other European countries (Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Poland).
What’s particularly encouraging is that the new UPS Saturday deliveries offer businesses of all sizes, particularly smaller online retailers, a reliable and cost-effective option to reach their customers at the weekend. Often new services of this type are only accessible by larger retailers so for the UPS Saturday deliveries to be available to smaller online sellers is a big plus.
Dublin is trialling mini urban distribution centres and powered walkers and quad cycles to enable city centre deliveries that don’t contribute to local emissions or congestion.
The pilot is funded by Dublin City Council, Enterprise Ireland and Belfast City Council and the system was developed as part of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) challenge, which sought new approaches to optimising deliveries.
Through this, design and manufacturing consultancy Fernhay developed the containers, bikes and walkers for global logistics carrier UPS to trial. The vehicles will enable workers to deliver goods such as groceries, medicine and parcels.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Great honor. Please. Thank you. Sit down, please.
It’s great to be with you. Great company and wonderful location. Quick flight. It’s in and out, but we have some big things to say.
Carol, I want to thank you also for doing such an incredible job at this company. I look at your numbers and I’m very jealous. A lot of people are very jealous.
But I’m delighted to be back in Atlanta, Georgia — a special place. (Applause.) The hometown of one of the most amazing companies on Earth, UPS. They never fail. (Applause.) The dedicated men and women of UPS are an inspiration to us all.
The state of Georgia and UPS are partnering together to deliver personal protective equipment to medical facilities across the state.
“This is another example of partnership between the State and a Georgia-based company that will have a direct impact on the battle against COVID-19,” said Governor Brian Kemp.
“UPS is proud to support the State of Georgia, applying our expertise and utilizing our flexible network in order to deliver PPE and life-saving devices throughout the state and to those most in need,” said George Willis, UPS President of U.S. Operations, including UPS Airlines.