UPS expands services with China-Europe rail offering 30 June 2014

Service helps customers balance speed and cost in supply chains

UPS is adding a Full Container Load (FCL) rail solution to its China-to-Europe transportation line up. The move is the latest in a series of expansions of UPS’s worldwide forwarding services designed to offer customers more choices for shipping.

The rail service is available on two distinct routes, operating from Chengdu, China, to Lodz, Poland, and from Zhengzhou, China, to Hamburg, Germany. Combining the rail movement with UPS’s existing integrated freight and truck networks, the service is up to 50.0% faster than ocean freight and enables cost savings of up to 70.0% when compared to air freight, with UPS technology providing end-to-end visibility and tracking.

The rail solution is offered to customers on a contractual basis, and follows several enhancements in 2013 to UPS’s multimodal portfolio of services in Europe, including the expansion of UPS Preferred Less-Than-Container Load (LCL) ocean freight service from Asia to Mexico and from Europe to the US and Canada, and the introduction of UPS Worldwide Express Freight service for urgent, time-sensitive heavyweight shipments.