UPS said it has extended its express operations by opening its largest-ever facility to accommodatethe rise in demand for express delivery and logistics solutions in the Emirates.
The new Dubai facility has the capacity to meet the challenges of the UAE’s increasinglysophisticated business environment and increasing customer demands, UPS said in a statement. Thelocation of the new facility in Al Quoz is strategically situated to service the growing commercialand residential developments taking place in areas such as Business Bay, Old Town and Burj Dubai,as well as Dubai Healthcare City.
Currently UPS has three operations facilities located in DAFZA, JAFZA and Abu Dhabi, as wellas customer service facilities in Al Ain, Fujairah, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah to serve the needsof its clients in the UAE. The new express operations centre will allow UPS to enhance its expressservices and achieve the company’s global vision of offering ‘synchronized commerce’ to itscustomers.
“Having established ourselves as one of the key players in the UAE’s express sector, we areinvesting further in our operations to better enable our regional customers to ‘synchronizecommerce’,” said John Tansey, country manager for UPS UAE LLC.
“In recent years we have seen a solid increase in express shipments to and from the UAE,largely due to the rising commercial activities and the country’s positive economic growth. The newUPS express facility in UAE is a direct response to that market directive, and enables us toincrease our operational capabilities and improve our overall efficiency and productivity,” Tanseyadded.
UPS also expects to introduce the DIAD IV -a new generation of wireless driver handheldcomputers – into its UAE express operations in the fourth quarter of 2007. This will enable it todramatically reduce its fuel consumption by streamlining route planning, vehicle loading andpackage delivery, it said.
Celebrating its eleventh year in the UAE during 2007, UPS has offices across all sevenemirates and has more than 15 UPS aircraft flying through the Dubai air hub from UPS’s European hubin Cologne in Germany, as well as from China, Hong Kong and the Philippines on a weekly basis. Thismakes UPS’s UAE operations an increasingly important gateway and strategic link to therapidly-expanding markets in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
