UPS Announces Strategic Cross-Border Investment In Heart Of North American Borderplex
February 06 2018 - 12:53PM
- New $41 million facility in El Paso, TX better connects
international border location and seventh largest manufacturing hub
in North America
- Over 153,000 square feet of new capacity added to UPS Smart
Global Logistics Network for automotive, electronics, appliances
and machinery producers
- El Paso, TX – Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, MX corridor is
important trade lane for cross-border commerce and features
world-class manufacturing infrastructure
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced development of a new
package operations center to support commercial and residential
commerce in the growing North America Borderplex. The strategic
investment serves a manufacturing region that stretches across
Texas, New Mexico and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The North
American Borderplex area is home to 2.5 million people and one of
the world’s largest bilingual workforces. UPS’s facility will add
more than 153,000 square feet of new processing capacity and is
expected to begin operating in late 2018.
“El Paso is the gateway to one of the most important industrial
corridors in the U.S. – Mexico trade lane. UPS is one of the
pistons helping drive the economic growth engine in this
community,” said Craig Wiltz, president of UPS’s Red River District
that includes Texas and Oklahoma. “The new building positions UPS
to increasingly support U.S. companies growing their cross-border
commerce, as well as better serve the rapidly changing business and
residential needs of our customers in West Texas.”
UPS’s $41 million project in El Paso is part of a multi-year
investment plan to grow UPS’s smart global logistics network, which
helps connect businesses and economies through cross-border
trade. Since early 2016, UPS has announced plans for 16 new
and expanded U.S. facilities that will create more than 8,650
well-paying full- and part-time positions.
"The UPS expansion and new state-of-the-art facility near the El
Paso International Airport speaks to the strategic growth our
community is experiencing,” said Dee Margo, Mayor of El Paso. “By
increasing the number of direct flights into the area, enhancing
our exceptional quality of life and maintaining our large bilingual
bicultural workforce, El Paso will continue to attract new
investment opportunities to the region comprised of three states
and two countries.”
Manufacturing industries including automotive, electronics,
appliances, and machinery producers will benefit from enhanced
delivery speed and accuracy from the new El Paso center’s advanced
package scanning and sortation equipment. The advanced technology
also features increased flexibility to more efficiently route
packages through UPS’s smart global logistics network.
The new facility will also support the UPS Trade Direct® Cross
Border service, an integrated solution that simplifies the cross
border shipping process by allowing shipments to bypass
distribution centers, shipping directly to retail stores or end
consumers across the Mexico/U.S./Canada borders. Mexico is
one of the United States’ most important trading partners, ranking
second among U.S. export markets and third in total U.S. trade.
About UPS
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering a
broad range of solutions including transporting packages and
freight; facilitating international trade, and deploying advanced
technology to more efficiently manage the world of business.
Headquartered in Atlanta, UPS serves more than 220 countries and
territories worldwide. The company can be found on the web
at ups.com or pressroom.ups.com and its
corporate blog can be found at longitudes.ups.com. To
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Kim Krebs
404-828-4404
kkrebs@ups.com
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