UPS offers next-day service from Hong Kong to Europe

March 28, 2011

UPS Inc. announced today an expansion of its Asia-to-Europe air-freight network with next-day deliveries from Hong Kong to the carrier's European hub in Cologne, Germany.

The Atlanta-based transport/logistics giant will add four weekly flights on the route operating from Hong Kong to Cologne, bringing to 11 the number of weekly flights serving the market. Up until now, shipments moving from Hong Kong to Cologne were routed through Dubai.

UPS said the expanded service will allow it to deliver shipments in one day to 39 cities and 18 countries across Europe.

According to the International Air Transport Association, Hong Kong is the fastest-growing international freight market with a projected 12.3-percent growth rate from 2009 to 2014.

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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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