The project, with a total value of $80 million, will add 140,000 square feet and a 54,000-gallon natural gas fueling station to the already 293,345-square-foot facility, creating 15 new jobs for the area. UPS received an 11-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes benefit from the Economic Development Growth Engine of Memphis & Shelby County for the project in November.
James Tompkins, who runs Tompkins International, a Raleigh, N.C.-based consultancy, said Amazon has divided the nation into three segments based on population size: The top 40 markets, which comprise about half of the U.S. population; the next 60 largest population areas that account for about 17 percent, and the remaining areas, which account for about one-third.
UPS Inc., which today handles much of Seattle-based Amazon’s current deliveries, will not play a prominent role in the network realignment, Tompkins said. Nor will FedEx Corp., which manages a lesser portion of Amazon’s delivery business. An Amazon spokeswoman was unavailable to comment.
The Lewiston man faces four years in prison and fines of $251,000.
A United Parcel Service worker pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from a sting operation last year in which his hands and face were splattered with blue dye when he tried to steal drugs from a package that he thought was intended for a Maine veteran.
Nathan Brown, 24, of Lewiston pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to theft from an interstate shipment and possession of oxycodone.
Electronic records will replace hard copy shipping papers for feeder operations beginning June 1, 2014
UPS® (NYSE: UPS) announced it will begin to transmit hazardous material information electronically, by phone, or fax starting June 1, 2014. This new method of communicating “shipping paper” information, authorized by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA) through Hazardous Materials Special Permit 15747 issued to UPS, only affects UPS small package tractor-trailer operations, the movement of small package shipments between UPS facilities and deliveries by tractor trailer. UPS Freight and all other UPS operations will continue to carry hard-copy shipping papers for hazardous materials.
Initial Fueling Infrastructure Built at 50 Locations in Collaboration with Propane Education & Research Council
UPS® (NYSE:UPS) today announced plans to purchase 1,000 propane package delivery trucks and install an initial 50 fueling stations at UPS locations. The investment in propane vehicles and infrastructure is approximately $70 million.
“The opportunity to road test new propane vehicles and fueling equipment with one of the most sophisticated fleets in the country is a major milestone for the propane industry”
The propane fleet will replace gasoline- and diesel-fueled vehicles used largely in rural areas in Louisiana and Oklahoma with other states pending. The vehicles on these routes can travel up to 200 miles on a tank of propane. Operations will begin by mid-2014 and be completed early next year.