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UPS received the first of 52 Airbus A300-600s operated by the international air cargo carrier scheduled to receive advanced new communications, navigation, and surveillance systems with the Honeywell Primus Epic integrated avionics flight deck upgrade.

Airbus delivered the first upgraded A300 to UPS, MSN868, on Feb. 3 at its Mobile, Alabama facility. The avionics overhaul program was first publicly announced by Airbus, Honeywell, and UPS during a May 2017 press conference.

Replacing the previous analog A300 technology will give UPS pilots large new high definition displays, a new vertical situation display, the RDR 4000 weather radar system, and a satellite-based augmentation system-capable GPS that can fly LPV and RNP AR approaches, routes and landings.

UPS’s Walter Van Der Meiren, who spoke at an ICAEW webinar last week, explains the main issues post-Brexit and how the EU and UK governments could ease them. 

UPS started preparing for Brexit as soon as the referendum result was announced back in 2016. From a customs perspective, this meant redesigning a lot of its procedures to align better with the New Computerised Transit System (NCTS), and that it was prepared for the increased documentation that would be necessary once previous trading terms came to an end.

“Given the high number of shipments we are carrying on ground, we cannot go to a customs office,” says Walter Van Der Meiren, brokerage division manager for UPS. “We have our own warehouses.”

The company applied for authorised consignee status and expanded its hub network. “It’s been four and a half years of intense internal preparations. Systems have been adjusted and we spent a lot of time communicating with and listening to our customers,” he continues.

As the city prepares for more winter weather, UPS has shut down Worldport sort operations and canceled domestic inbound flights Monday, Feb. 15.

An update on a heartwarming story we brought you last week.

We’re learning more about the trending video of a UPS driver making snow angels with a woman’s dog in Blue River.

That UPS driver’s name is Ron, and he has been well known to the McKenzie community for years.

But this past year the pandemic, and the Holiday Farm Fire, made his services all the more essential.

Now after that community has lost so much, he’s finding little ways to brighten their days.

UPS is delivering Valentine’s Day gifts all over the country.

The logistics giant expects to deliver more than 850,000 boxes of flowers this year. That’s a 48 percent jump from last year.

UPS is scheduled to make more than 125 flights from South America to Miami to deliver those boxes to florists across the country. The company says it also expects to deliver more than 91 million stems directly to customers.