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UPS today announced the results of its 2017 UPS Business Monitor™ Export Index Latin America (BMEI) report. The study focuses on the purchasing behaviors of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), a segment representing more than 90% of companies in Latin America. It reveals insights about importers that will help exporters sell and supply products to this growing sector.
United Parcel Service Inc on Thursday announced plans to form a joint venture agreement with Chinese express delivery firm SF Holdings, laying the groundwork to expand shipping services from China to the United States.
SF Holdings, parent company of SF Express, is often called China’s answer to UPS rival FedEx, and is the dominant package delivery company within China. It also delivers to more than a dozen countries, including the United States and Japan.
It is no secret that many think drones – or, to use their technical descriptive, unmanned aerial devices (UAVs) – prove an ideal delivery platform for small packages.
Indeed, there’s been significant testing of them lately for such service: DHL with its “parcelcopter” in 2014 and United Parcel Service with its parcel car-drone combination earlier this year offer up but two commercial examples.
UPS (NYSE: UPS) Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) today announced that it has advanced as a Leader in the May 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Third-Party Logistics Providers, (3PL) North America. UPS SCS improved its position on the axis labeled “completeness of vision.”
Gartner defines Leaders as companies that “execute well against their current vision and are well positioned for tomorrow.”*