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UPS opens new hub at Clark International Airport

UPS has opened its new hub at Clark International Airport in the Philippines that is is 15 times larger than its predecessor and increases the average package volume to 46,000 per day. Covering 30,000 sq m (323,000 sq ft), the new UPS Clark hub enables the average daily volume of packages processed through the hub to increase to 46,000 while maximum processing capacity rises to 15,000 packages per hour. The expansion includes specialized handling for healthcare, high-tech and manufacturing customers with time-sensitive and temperature-sensitive shipments. The new, sustainability-certified hub houses three refrigeration and freezer units, ranging from -20 to 25 Celsius, dedicated re-icing capability and UPS Premier RFID technology to provide priority handling and enhanced visibility for critical and temperature-sensitive healthcare shipments. It also features an automated sorting system, which uses smart technology to process up to 9,000 small packages per hour. Ramp operations use a fleet of electric ground servicing equipment, including cargo tractors, belt and cargo loaders, ground processing units and forklifts. UPS now operates 170 flight segments into and out of Clark every week, connecting businesses across Asia Pacific, India, Europe and the United States in as little as one business day. UPS now operates 170 flight segments into and out of Clark every week, connecting businesses across Asia Pacific, India, Europe and the US in as little as one business day. "This is a very special moment for our customers and our company," said Russell Reed, managing director UPS Philippines. "To enhance services across more than 1,100 trade lanes is incredibly exciting, especially at a time when businesses are facing a unique set of challenges. "When we opened our first Clark hub in 2002, we always had growth in mind - for our customers, our people and the local community," continued Reed. "We're proud to have called Clark home for nearly quarter of a century and we're delighted that the new UPS Clark hub will continue to provide people and businesses, both in the Philippines and across Asia, with international trade growth opportunities for decades more to come." The more than $80m investment in the hub is part of UPS's ongoing investment in its Asia Pacific logistics network which aims to build resilience amid trade complexity. UPS said the service enhancements enabled by the new UPS Clark hub include up to two days faster delivery to and from eastern China and other major Asia Pacific markets; up to two days faster service between several Southeast Asian markets and India; improvements to and from the Philippines on trade lanes worldwide; and faster transit times, extended pickup cut off times and earlier delivery times in cities and countries across the region. "When we first announced plans to build our new Clark hub in 2024, it was the beginning of a sustained, multi-year investment strategy to strengthen our Asia Pacific network and give our customers faster connections to support growing trade flows across the region," said Bernard Jiang, president UPS Asia Pacific. "Asia Pacific has been the heartbeat of global trade for years. There are still plenty of growth opportunities for the region's businesses and a lot of untapped potential. Clark is the latest in a series of recent major investments UPS has made in its Asia Pacific network and there's more to come as we continue to speed up connectivity, unlock trade growth opportunities, improve service reliability and strengthen supply chains for our customers," added Jiang. The Clark Airport hub is the latest in a series of investments by UPS in its Asia Pacific network as the company helps its customers confidently manage changing trade routes, regulations and supply chain disruption. In March this year, UPS opened its largest logistics center in Asia Pacific, in Taiwan, and broke ground on construction of a new hub at Hong Kong International Airport. Then, in April, UPS completed a major expansion of its hub at Incheon Airport.

JB Hunt riding new pricing cycle - shippers must pay up

Growth alone is not the objective, JB Hunt (JBHT) CEO Shelley Simpson told investors during the Q3 call that took place yesterday after the US market close. Instead: "Sustainable growth - that creates long-term value for our customers, our people and our shareholders - is the objective." Dear client: be ready to pay up! "The largest opportunity" ahead of JB Hunt is ensuring "our pricing reflects the value we create". In other words, the $22bn-market-cap intermodal and trucking group is taking decisions expected to "strengthen ...

Gulf conflict upsets networks - and fleet size - of biggest feeder operators

The US-Iran conflict and subsequent closure of the Hormuz Straits have upended the networks, and fleet deployment strategies, of the world's three largest common feeder operators - and seen AD Ports' Global Feeder Services significantly close the gap on the market leaders. According to new analysis from Alphaliner, the Middle East conflict, now in its eighth month, has forced the two largest operators, X-Press Feeders and DP Worldm to reduce their offered capacity as the closure of Gulf routes curtailed their networks. "X-Press Feeders remains the world's largest feeder operator by deployed capacity, although its fleet has contracted by 7.1% year on year, as per Alphaliner's survey on 21 September," the analyst writes this week. "Fallout from the Middle East conflict forced X-Press to make service cuts across the region, which is the main reason for the decline." As a result, X-Press Feeders' global capacity is now 182,776 teu, down 13,987 teu from September 2025, with its capacity serving the Middle East region down 34.2% - equivalent to 38,000 teu - which Alphaliner linked to service suspension in the wake of the conflict. To offset this, it has increased capacity in the intra-Europe trades by 7.4%, and intra-Americas by 17.7%, and has even taken the unusual step, for a feeder operator, of joining a deepsea Asia-Europe service, via the deployment of the 4,800 teu X-Press Odyssey on the China-Mediterranean CEX service, jointly run with China United Lines, Uniglory, and Global Feeder Services. Meanwhile, DP World's global capacity, largely made up of the Unifeeder fleet, fell 2.5% during the year, a "modest overall decline, also driven by the Middle East conflict", said Alphaliner. It added: "Its deployed capacity in the ME/ISC related trade fell by 7,500 teu, while its operated capacity in all other regions remained broadly stable year on year. "Most of the cuts came from Gulf-related loops," Alphaliner wrote, noting it had largely redeployed capacity to the Asia-India trade, as well as to a number of extra loaders serving the ME/ISC trade. However, Emirati compatriot Global Feeder Services (GFS), owned by AD Ports, in what appears to be a commercial strategy that closely resembles that of DP World, saw its capacity jump by 31%, and its fleet is now only a fraction behind that of its rival - just 2,800 teu smaller - after it doubled-down on serving the India-Middle East trade corridor. "The ME/ISC trade remains GFS's core market and accounted for the bulk of its growth, in contrast to X-Press Feeders and DP World, which both reduced their presence there," said Alphaliner, calculating that GFS's capacity on that trade grew 26.9% and now accounts for around 70% of its total fleet. "While its two main competitors scaled back in the region, GFS kept its network largely intact. The carrier replaced Gulf calls on existing loops with Red Sea ports, and extended its reach into neighbouring trades. "As a result, GFS has overtaken both rivals to become the largest of the three in the ME/ISC trade, ahead of X-Press Feeders (about 73,500 teu) and DP World (about 70,500 teu)," the analyst added.