Category: UPS Press Release

UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced a significant upgrade to its package sorting facility adjacent to Columbia Metropolitan Airport. The building will be outfitted with fully automated sorting capabilities.

“UPS is constantly reinvesting in our people and assets to enhance performance throughout our fully-integrated delivery network,” states Dwayne C. Meeks, president of UPS’s South Atlantic District. “Developing and implementing technology that refines the package sorting process is part of that continual effort.”

Roadie to Increase Available Protection up to $10,000 for All Deliveries

UPS Capital, a subsidiary of UPS® (NYSE:UPS), today announced its licensed affiliate, UPS Capital Insurance Agency, Inc., will provide Roadie, Inc., a neighbor-to-neighbor delivery network, with a parcel insurance solution that will protect items shipped via the Roadie community with a value up to $10,000.

$300 million ground sorting facility expansion addresses package growth, to add 300 jobs

UPS (NYSE:UPS) announced it will triple the size of its “Centennial” ground package sorting facility in Louisville and will nearly double package processing rates. Separate from UPS Worldport® international air hub, this project will cost an estimated $300 million and should be substantially completed by 2018. At this site, UPS plans to add more than 300 jobs – a mix of full- and part-time positions – over the course of the project with recruitment starting in 2017. This is one of many hub modernization projects UPS is executing.

New UPS site increases pace of next generation driver training nationally

UPS has opened another next generation driver training facility in Menlo Park, CA. The new UPS Integrad® facility bolsters UPS’s growing portfolio of advanced training sites, increasing the pace of preparing UPS drivers to serve customers safely and efficiently.

“Helping new UPS drivers to meet our high standards requires that we adapt new training techniques and tools,” said Joe Finamore, UPS vice president of Global Leadership and Talent Development. “This new building will improve use experiential training in a next generation curriculum that better prepares UPS drivers.”

Fleet is Part of Clean Air Project with U.S. Department of Energy, Local Governments and Non-Profit

UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced the deployment of 18 electric, zero emission delivery vehicles to the Houston-Galveston area in Texas. The truck purchases are the result of a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), local governments and non-profits. These vehicles, designed and built specifically by the Workhorse Group for the “stop and go” needs of a UPS delivery truck, will avoid the consumption of an estimated 1.1 million gallons of diesel fuel over 20 years.