Trucks World News: TRUCKING INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE * USA - UPS to tap China’s booming domestic market

“In Amazon’s case they are using 500 carriers in China to deliver their packages and they are saying this is insane. So the market is just ripe for consolidation...”

New York,NY,USA -The Financial Times (UK), by Jeremy Lemer -September 27 2010: -- United Parcel Service, one of the largest package delivery companies, is moving ahead with plans to establish a domestic service in China as it seeks to tap into booming consumer and business demand in the country... As early as this week UPS will submit an application for a domestic licence to the State Post Bureau, the local regulator. Once approved, the company will roll out a next-day delivery service and second and third-day delivery products... He believes the Chinese market could be as large as 5m packages a day. For comparison, in 2009 UPS delivered about 1.2m packages a day in its international-domestic segment – its term to describe deliveries within foreign countries – worth $2.1bn in revenues... Mr Brutto said UPS had been encouraged to expand in China by its multinational clients who have a presence there but want a safer, more reliable and more familiar way to reach domestic consumers... In the past few years UPS’s rivals have been providing domestic express services through acquisitions and joint ventures. Analysts note that the Chinese market will be one of the few where the biggest players compete head to head across a full suite of services.

And here some reasons for the above one:

* China - Heavy Bicycle Loads

Shanghai,China -Alain Delorme, via Mutual Art/Shots, by Eugene -September 9, 2010: -- Apparently, some people in China have never heard of U-Haul. They are, however, amazingly efficient in the way they pack and move all their inventory on a tiny little bike.

"Manufactured Totems" is a series by Alain Delorme which brilliantly portrays the pressure Shanghainese migrant workers face. Piles of products labeled “Made in China” are stacked up to produce gargantuan sculptures, symbolizing their ever-increasing fetish with objects. The vertical nature of these items echoes the incessant expansion of the urban space - constantly under construction...