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TECHNONEWS *- USA - UPS and other overnight carriers go even higher-tech
On a peak night, workers have less than four hours to process more than a million packages from more than 100 planes and more than 160 trucks.
Louisville,Ken,USA -Bloomberg/International Herald Tribune, by Claudia H. Deutsch -July 6, 2007: -- Worldport, the United Parcel Service hub at the airport here, gives the phrase "hub of activity" a new dimension of meaning... The ubiquitous brown trucks, with their brown-clad drivers, are the face that UPS presents to the world. But increasingly it is the researchers at its Atlanta headquarters, its technology center in Mahwah, New Jersey, and its Louisville hub who are asking the questions that will drive the company's future... What if the package contains medicine that could turn from palliative to poison if the temperature wavers? What if it is moving from Bangkok to Bangor and back to Bangkok, and if customs rules differ on each end? And what if the package is going to a big company that insists on receiving all its packages, no matter who delivers them, at the same time each day?... UPS is pumping more than $1 billion a year into research aimed at answering those questions, while also looking for new ways to cut costs...
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