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During Shoptalk, UPS and ESW (formerly eShopWorld) announced an agreement that will allow brands integrated international e-commerce and shipping capabilities to further accelerate direct-to-consumer expansion and enable a more effective way to reach global consumers through cross-border e-commerce.

“UPS continues to innovate on behalf of customers, offering new capabilities to grow their businesses,” said Bill Seward, president, Americas region and global customer solutions at UPS. “This alliance with ESW offers UPS e-commerce customers the ability to sell and ship seamlessly around the world, with the confidence that they are delivering a great shopping experience.”

According to data from ESW’s Global Voices 2022 survey, cross-border d-to-c consumers saw an increased number across all age groups between December 2020 and July 2021. Younger Millennial and Gen Z consumers were driving this trend.

United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE:UPS) has appointed Jim Joseph as president of UPS Airlines, effective June 30.

Brendan Canavan, who currently leads this division, is planning to retire. Joseph will manage UPS’s global air operations as well as UPS Worldport, the company’s global air hub in Louisville, a news release said.

“We’re excited to have Jim assume leadership of UPS Airlines,” Executive Vice President and President of U.S. Operations Nando Cesarone said in the release. “He has a long track record of industry-leading service results. He played a major role in the expansion of our weekend service offerings, time-in-transit improvements and the deployment of multiple operational technologies that bolstered our capabilities in service to our customers,”

A local UPS man made a meaningful connection with a family on his route that all started with a kind gesture.

Angel Hughes has always had her eyes on the skies.

As a young girl growing up in Newark, New Jersey, Hughes, a retired U.S. Coast Guard pilot, would always see commercial airline pilots when she traveled.

“So that was kind of the goal as a little girl,” she said.

As she traveled, though, she noticed little girls like her didn’t have much representation in the industry.

“I’d never seen a young Black female pilot in uniform, flying jumbo jets doing exactly what I wanted to do,” Hughes, now a pilot for UPS, said.

UPS, one of the world’s largest cargo carriers, still has less than 200 female pilots— that’s nearly 6% of its pilot base. And in the United States, less than 1% of all certified pilots across the aviation industry are Black women.