UPS expands HQ at Philippines' Clark into Intra-Asia hub
US-based United Parcel Service (UPS) has expanded its headquarters for USD1.4 million and converted it into its Intra-Asia hub.
The formal conversion of UPS-Clark as Intra-Asia hub was highlighted with the launching of UPS fourth annual global volunteer week conducted in barangay (community village) Cauayan here with some 300 of its Philippine-based employees participating.
UPS, which delivers almost 15 million packages and documents to doorsteps in 200 countries daily, conducted its global volunteer week from October 14 to 22, according to UPS-Philippines managing director Tim Gohoc.
UPS officials said their employees spend some 100,000 hours volunteer work in 50 countries undertaking community services such as painting houses, landscaping and cleaning grounds.
In barangay Cauayan, Ken Tork, UPS president for Asia Pacific region, said that “we are truly inspired to see our employees extending helping hand to communities where we operated.”
UPS records showed its week-long community service initiative has grown from roughly 1,000 volunteers in 2003 to over 20,000 expected globally this year.
This service will continue to be extended from Asia and Latin America to the United States and Europe, according to Gohoc.
Volunteer community service program this year, UPS said, would include volunteer efforts such 500 hours of coordinating baseball tournaments for blind and visually impaired children in Taiwan, about 2,000 hours renovating schools and shelters in Germany, some 6,500 hours across the United States providing logistics support to raise funds for breast cancer research and some 100 hours for sorting food for food banks in Montreal, Canada.
The UPS-Clark 16,500-square-metre area in the 2,500-hectare Diosdado Macapagal International Airport are worth some USD7 million but the network costs about USD300 million including value of aircraft.
UPS-Clark has 120 weekly incoming and outgoing flights between such routes as Hong Kong, Cologne, Dubai, Taipei, Kansai, Cebu, Narita, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Shenzhen, Incheon and Mumbai.
