DOHA: UPS, a global leader in logistics, yesterday announced latest expansion of its popular UPS Worldwide Express Freight service to nine new countries including Qatar, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Malta, Morocco, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tunisia.
Together with the eight additional countries added within the past year, the service is now offered in 66 origin and 64 destination countries and territories. UPS also expanded UPS Worldwide Express Freight service to over 2,110 zip codes in Mexico in June.
This specialised guaranteed service is designed for urgent, time-sensitive, and high-value international heavyweight shipments over 70 kg., making it ideal for product launches, inventory shortages, and equipment failure replacement parts. Since its launch in 2013, the number of businesses using UPS Worldwide Express Freight has increased more than 250 percent. The service provides supply chain benefits including reduced transit times, improved visibility, reduced inventory safety stock, enhanced customer service levels and shorter order fulfilment cycles/times.
Commenting on this Jean-Francois Condamine, President of UPS ISMEA, said: “We are pleased to see such a growth. In the emerging markets, it reflects the fulfilling of a critical market need. We are thrilled to have commenced operations in these countries. In expanding our services to our customers, we reinforce our commitment to the growing logistics sector in the region.”
UPS research has shown that customers who use UPS Worldwide Express Freight have outperformed those who do not. In comparison to their peers, customers using this service have higher growth rates to international markets, evidence they consider UPS Worldwide Express Freight a competitive advantage to expanding their business internationally.
“Companies in the healthcare, retail and automotive industries have grown their international volume, 18, 11 and five times more, respectively, using UPS Worldwide Express Freight than their peers over the last three years,” said Bill Seward, President, U.S. International, UPS. “We will continue to invest in service expansions as customer and industry needs evolve.”
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