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We’re helping Asia Pacific customers move faster and grow with more resilient supply chains

Oct 20, 2026
Our investments are helping businesses navigate changing trade routes and regulations
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We’re continuing to invest across Asia Pacific – strengthening supply chains amid trade complexity and giving businesses even faster and more reliable connections to markets worldwide through our global end-to-end network.

Together, these investments allow UPS to bring air, ground, brokerage and distribution together in one solution, with fewer handoffs, more end-to-end control and less complexity.

Check out the latest:

📍Clark: Opened an expanded hub to boost global connectivity

We opened our expanded Clark hub in the Philippines, a more than $80 million investment that improves service across more than 1,100 global trade lanes. It’s a big deal – from this single location, businesses can reach markets across Asia Pacific, India, Europe and the U.S faster and more reliably.

Why our customers love it:

🚀 Delivery up to two days faster on key trade lanes involving China, Southeast Asia and India

⚙️ Faster, more efficient processing with capacity for up to 15,000 packages per hour

🌡️ Expanded support for healthcare customers  with temperature-controlled handling from -20°C to 25°C, dedicated re-icing and UPS Premier RFID technology

🌍 Greater supply chain resilience for high-tech, manufacturing and other industries where speed, visibility and reliability are critical

See our new hub in action:

 

📍Taoyuan: Launched largest logistics facility in Asia Pacific

We announced the opening of the Taoyuan International Logistics Center (TILC), our largest facility in Asia Pacific, giving customers in Taiwan more capacity and faster access to UPS’s global network

Why our customers love it:

⚙️ Up to 40% faster processing speeds through advanced automation

📦 Increased storage efficiency with expanded warehouse capacity

🤖 Near-zero order picking error rates supported by autonomous mobile robotics

 

📍Incheon: Expanded hub capacity to support faster trade flows

We completed a major expansion of our Incheon Airport hub in South Korea, more than quadrupling its size and boosting import processing capacity with automated sorting systems.

Why our customers love it:

🚀 Next-business-day delivery for imports from Asia Pacific

🌍 Two-day delivery for imports from Europe

⚡ Same-day delivery capability to the Seoul metropolitan area upon arrival

🌡️ Supporting temperature-sensitive healthcare shipments through controlled environments ranging from -20°C to 25°C (-4°F to 77°F)

 

📍Hong Kong: Built our air hub to power Asia Pacific growth

We kicked off construction of our UPS Hong Kong Air Hub. Opening in 2028, this will be our largest fully automated hub in the region – a 24/7 facility with more than 50,000 square meters of built-up area – that’s about 12 city blocks.

Why our customers love it:

⚙️ State-of-the-art automated sorting and scanning technology to boost speed and accuracy

🌍 Stronger connections across Asia, Europe and the U.S. for imports, exports and transshipments

📦 Increased capacity to handle close to 1 million tons annually, supporting global trade growth

“Asia Pacific is a driver of global trade growth, and we’re making targeted, long-term investments to help our customers move faster, build resilience and compete with confidence as they navigate an evolving trade landscape,” said Bernard Jiang, president, UPS Asia Pacific. “By strengthening the end-to-end network our customers rely on, we’re giving businesses more flexibility, faster clearance and delivery, and more dependable solutions for time- and temperature-sensitive shipments.”

Dive deeper: Learn more about how UPS is helping businesses to ship internationally and request a free, 15-minute virtual consultation with a UPS  expert to explore shipping solutions. 

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