UPS Targets Manufacturers With $50M Mexico Air Freight Investment

UPS is expanding its aerial cargo capabilities successful Mexico, introducing time-definite dense aerial freight work designed to assistance manufacturers alert shipments successful and retired of the country.

According to the logistics giant, the institution has invested astir $50 cardinal successful its Mexican aerial freight web to assistance bolster enactment for production-critical proviso chains successful North America for concern and automotive manufacturers.

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Matt Guffey, UPS main commercialized and strategy officer, said customers successful those manufacturing fields “want an casual fastener for logistics.”

“They request reliability, visibility and a spouse that understands their proviso chains—end to end, contiguous and tomorrow,” Guffey said successful a statement. “We person made strategical investments to physique the squad and the web that meets their needs dissimilar immoderate different successful the industry.”

Beginning successful August, UPS volition connection one-, two- and three-day work options to and from Mexico to assistance manufacturers determination high-value, time-sensitive parts with greater velocity and predictability.

UPS says the task volition effect successful less delays astatine the U.S.-Mexico border, improved visibility from root to destination and much accordant accumulation lines.

The Atlanta-based transportation courier is capitalizing connected a monolithic acceleration of aerial freight question betwixt the U.S. and Mexico, portion simultaneously gathering infrastructure astir the aforesaid North American nearshoring trends that galore apparel brands are exploring arsenic they question shorter pb times and much flexible replenishment strategies.

Air represented $33.2 cardinal of freight moved betwixt the U.S. and Mexico successful 2025, up 54 percent from the $21.5 cardinal transported via that mode successful 2024. In the year’s span, the mode’s practice of full freight transported betwixt the countries escalated from 2.6 percent of each goods moved to 3.8 percent.

Such a beardown year-over-year leap apt derived from the imposition of precocious tariffs worldwide opening successful April past year, arsenic good arsenic the scrapping of the duty-free de minimis provision, forcing U.S. companies to rethink proviso chains retired of China and Southeast Asia.

But with qualifying apparel imports from Mexico mostly entering the U.S. duty-free nether the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), nearshoring has go adjacent much of a information among proviso concatenation stakeholders.

According to the Kase Peak Season Retailer Sentiment report, an autarkic survey of 328 retail, e-commerce and fulfillment leaders, 94 percent of respondents judge nearshoring and home sourcing are important for reducing hazard during the highest vacation season.