UPS opens $100 million Taiwan logistics hub to meet tech boom demand

Reuters

Wed, March 25, 2026 astatine 4:48 AM CDT 1 min read

TAOYUAN, Taiwan, March 25 (Reuters) - United Parcel Service opened a caller $100 cardinal logistics centre successful ‌Taiwan connected Wednesday, its largest successful the Asia ‌Pacific, riding a question of request from tech companies.

Taiwan is location ​to TSMC, the world's apical declaration chip-maker and ascendant supplier of the precocious semiconductors powering the roar successful AI technologies.

UPS said the tract successful bluish Taiwan's ‌Taoyuan, a abbreviated ⁠drive from the island's largest planetary airport, volition besides beryllium utilized by Applied Materials, ⁠the largest U.S. semiconductor instrumentality maker, arsenic an Asian organisation centre.

"Around 80% of the freight is high-tech," Lauren ​Zhao, president ​of UPS Asia Pacific ​Supply Chain Solutions and ‌Freight Forwarding, told reporters astatine the caller facility.

"Everyone knows that Taiwan's semiconductor manufacture is the astir precocious successful the world, and the manufacturing processes related to the semiconductor manufacture are besides wherever Taiwan is ‌leading the world," she added.

While UPS ​currently lone operates retired of ​Taoyuan airport, its ​managing manager for Japan, South Korea ‌and Taiwan, Sam Hung, said ​the institution was ​also considering flights to Kaohsiung successful the south, depending connected lawsuit demand.

Kaohsiung is wherever TSMC is ​building a ‌large caller mill arsenic portion of a processing ​semiconductor clump successful confederate Taiwan.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; ​Editing by Alexander Smith)