UPS is comparable an internationally active logistics enterprise, with Fedex and DHL.

It was created on 28 August 1907 in Seattle, the USA as American of measuringclose company of James E. Casey and renamed 1919 to United batch service. In the year 1976 UPS makes the jump over the Atlantic and opened in Germany the first address outside of the USA.

Since 10 November 1999 shares of the enterprise are acted publicly at the New Yorker stock exchange (symbol: UPS).

Since the enterprise their new Schildlogo with the short form UPS uses 2003 as brand names, which long form not used as mark no more, the enterprise firmiert however further under the name United batch service.

Today that belongs to 30 billion-dollar billion to the largest parcel services of the world. The German folder of the enterprise firmiert under the designation United batch service Germany Inc. & CO. OHG.

UPS has world-wide a conversion of $ 36.6 billion (2004), employs 407,200 coworkers (approx. 58,800 outside of the USA, of it approx. 15,000 in Germany) and supplies to over 200 countries and areas.

Typically for UPS the salient delivery vans are "pullmann brown" in the firm color, which was long time only special preparations. Since some vehicle manufacturers delivery vans with increased seating position and passage to the loading space offer, buy partly also vehicles to UPS "from the bar ". The chassis is supplied by Daimler Chrysler. The vehicle fleet hands however from the silver-grey full trailer combinations (Feeder) on small car (Renault Kangoo) up to the motorcycle for the express deliveries and internal Verteilfahrten.In unites areas of the world uses UPS also boats for the package distribution, among other things in Venice.

The color brown as typical distinguishing feature of the enterprise came in the year 1919 from two reasons to conditions. On the one hand the dark brown of the Pullman railway carriages was in the USA equivalently to quality and luxury, on the other hand saw one completely simply on the brown cars the dust of the roads not so clear.

Company headquarters of UPS is Atlanta, the European center has its seat in Brussels, the German address, which takes over large parts of the European clerical work and which is largest address outside of the USA, sits in a freshly reconditioned office tower in Neuss. The European turntable for the air freight service is resident at the airport Cologne/Bonn (stroke and Spoke system). Further important airports are:

• The USA: Louisville, Ky. (Main air turntable the USA); Philadelphia, Pa. ; Dallas, Texas; Ontario, Kalif. ; Skirt Ford, Ill. ; Columbia, S.C. ; Hard Ford, Conn.
• Asia/Pacific: Taipei, Taiwan; Pampanga, the Philippines; Hong Kong; Singapore
• Latin America and Karibik: Miami, Fla., the USA
• Canada: Hamilton, Ontario.

The 100% daughter UPS SCS GmbH & CO. OHG has your company headquarters in Schwaig with to belong 269 airplanes and further 305 machines is externally rented. With its fleet it is the eleven-largest airline of the earth (IATA code 5X). UPS belongs to the first customers of the airbus A380F, which is 10 freighters between 2009 and 2012 is delivered. 8 air freighters of the type Boeing 747-400 were continued to order, which starting from June 2007 to be delivered to be supposed.

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• Official side of the UPS
• German side of the UPS

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