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The driver said bullets started whizzing by as at least one person opened fire into a passing car, so he backed his truck up, jumped up and ran for cover.
By the time police had arrived, the truck had been ransacked, missing two packages, a cell phone, and the driver’s backpack.
Love is in the air and on the ground as UPS® (NYSE: UPS) prepares to transport an estimated 118 million flowers for Valentine’s Day. Most of the flowers imported for Cupid’s holiday come from Latin American countries such as Colombia and Ecuador. More than 90 percent of the imported blossoms travel through Miami International Airport, where UPS is the largest air cargo carrier.
According to the National Retail Federation, the average consumer is expected to spend $133.91 on Valentine’s Day gifts with total spending expected to hit more than $17 billion. One-third of this year’s gift-givers will purchase flowers, and UPS will be kicking it into high gear for the celebration, which marks one of UPS’s busiest single delivery days of the year
Acquisition of Polar Speed Expands UPS Specialized Healthcare Network, Enhances Temperature-Sensitive Solutions
UPS® (NYSE: UPS) today announced it has completed the purchase of U.K.-based Polar Speed, an innovative provider of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical supply chain solutions in the U.K. The acquisition further strengthens UPS’s healthcare network across Europe, providing healthcare companies access to a single source for logistics solutions across the continent.
The purchase is part of UPS’s successful healthcare strategy and brings new value to customers in this growing market. Polar Speed is recognized for its commitment to pharmaceutical logistics customers. It specializes in active temperature-controlled deliveries to hospitals, pharmacies, wholesalers and surgery centers as well as end patients. Polar Speed also offers unique capabilities within the growing homecare direct-to-consumer delivery market. Its customers include some of the best known pharmaceutical brands in the world.
For United Parcel Service (UPS), on-time availability is the most important metric when it comes to measuring rail performance.
Instead of tracking a train’s arrival time at a yard near a UPS sorting facility, the metric determines if the world’s largest parcel delivery company is provided loads as promised to sort packages on schedule at hubs within its integrated network. UPS taps service from all the Class Is and several other railroads in the United States, and each is assigned an availability goal of 95 percent.
“On-time availability is the be all, end all for us. Overall, it’s how we look at impacts on our whole network,” says Ken Buenker, UPS’ vice president of corporate transportation services, who’s responsible for rail transportation company-wide.
UPS (NYSE: UPS) and the Independent Pilots Association (IPA), which represents the approximately 2,600 pilots who fly for UPS, announce the following: