UPS upgrades service level for US-Mexico industrial shippers

United Parcel Service this summertime volition statesman offering time-definite, dense freight aerial work betwixt the United States and Mexico connected its ain craft for the archetypal clip arsenic portion of an inaugural to supply much tailored proviso concatenation services to automotive and different concern customers with operations successful some countries.

The integrated logistics and parcel elephantine said Friday it has besides invested astir $50 cardinal to physique a freight-friendly cross-border merchandise wrong the UPS Ground parcel proscription strategy and teams with much than 300 industry-specific experts who tin assistance customers navigate the champion logistics options amid accrued commercialized complexity associated with higher tariffs, changing regulations, and rising substance prices.

UPS (NYSE: UPS) successful August volition statesman offering one-day, two-day and three-day work options to and from Mexico that are designed to assistance manufacturers determination high-value, time-sensitive parts with greater velocity and predictability than erstwhile offerings. UPS volition besides usage trucks for immoderate traffic.

UPS services betwixt the United States and Mexico person traditionally focused connected tiny bundle shipments, with remaining capableness allocated for freight. The quality present is that UPS is offering a work upgrade successful which shippers tin person day-definite, guaranteed service, spokesperson Jim Mayer explained successful an email.

UPS operates scheduled flights to-and-from Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. Depending connected the work enactment selected and time-in-transit, measurement besides whitethorn determination connected crushed from Mexico to U.S. gateways, specified arsenic El Paso and Dallas, Texas, wherever it volition beryllium loaded onto a UPS formation to destinations anyplace successful the U.S. oregon Canada. In immoderate cases, a question whitethorn spell by crushed only, helium said.

The caller UPS Ground with freight pricing functions arsenic a less-than-truckload solution for multi-package shipments implicit 150 pounds, utilizing the much elemental parcel network. It is designed for multi-package shipments that bash not necessitate a pallet. UPS has offered freight-pricing successful UPS Ground wrong the home U.S. market, but is present extending that to cross-border movements.

“Our automotive and concern customers privation an casual fastener for logistics,” said Matt Guffey, UPS main commercialized and strategy officer, successful a quality release.

WeatherTech uses UPS to vessel automotive accessories and CEO David MacNeil said the institution is pleased with the shipping reliability, according to the quality release.

The caller investments successful North American cross-border shipping dovetail with UPS’s strategy to deemphasize low-margin parcel concern and absorption connected high-value goods and analyzable proviso chains, specified arsenic automotive, that necessitate premium services.