Watch Now


UPS expands international air express network

More codes to service (Photo: UPS)

UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS) said Monday it will expand its international air express network for small parcels by adding 3,200 postal codes to 40 countries, including five countries that have recently been added.

UPS said it will add nearly 8,000 postal codes to its Worldwide Express Freight network. It has also added four countries, bringing the total to 11. Worldwide Express Freight offers day- and time-definite services for palletized air consignments.

The five new markets are Algeria, Namibia, Reunion, which will be served by Worldwide Express, and Nigeria and Qatar, which will be served by the “Plus” product. UPS did not disclose the names of the four additional countries to be served by the Express Freight product. It said, however, that shippers in more than 76 countries can now serve consignees in more than 82 countries.

All of the programs will expand the availability of international morning or midday deliveries, UPS said.


Mark Solomon

Formerly the Executive Editor at DC Velocity, Mark Solomon joined FreightWaves as Managing Editor of Freight Markets. Solomon began his journalistic career in 1982 at Traffic World magazine, ran his own public relations firm (Media Based Solutions) from 1994 to 2008, and has been at DC Velocity since then. Over the course of his career, Solomon has covered nearly the whole gamut of the transportation and logistics industry, including trucking, railroads, maritime, 3PLs, and regulatory issues. Solomon witnessed and narrated the rise of Amazon and XPO Logistics and the shift of the U.S. Postal Service from a mail-focused service to parcel, as well as the exponential, e-commerce-driven growth of warehouse square footage and omnichannel fulfillment.