UPS rolls out faster LCL service from Asia to U.S.

September 16, 2010

UPS Inc. said Wednesday it has rolled out a new version of its Asia-to-U.S. less-than-containerload (LCL) ocean service that the company says will cut trans-Pacific transit times by 20 percent over its standard LCL service.

The service is initially available only from Japan, but other Asian points will be added over the next six months, UPS said.

The biggest transit time improvement will be seen on shipments destined for the East Coast, where UPS said it hopes to shave five to six days off the standard 22- to 23-day delivery cycles. The service will cut transit times by approximately two days for shipments bound for the Central and Western United States, UPS said.

To those markets, the standard delivery times are 15 days, the company said.

Intermodal Ocean/Maritime/Ports Transportation

KEYWORDS UPS

Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.

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