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UPS to expand Euro air hub in Germany

$200 million expansion will be largest non-U.S. facility investment in company's history.

Mark Solomon
By Mark SolomonSep 15, 2011
Mark Solomon
Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.
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UPS Inc. today announced a $200 million expansion of its European air hub at Germany's Cologne/Bonn Airport, the largest investment in a non-U.S. facility in the company's 104-year history.

When completed by the end of 2013, the expanded facility will have the capacity to process up to 190,000 packages per hour, compared with 110,000 packages per hour today, UPS said. The facility will also be able to process larger freight shipments than the current system can handle.

UPS made the announcement on the 25th anniversary of its first operating day at Cologne/Bonn Airport. Atlanta-based UPS began serving Germany in 1976 with ground delivery operations, and the country remains the focal point of the company's European network.

"This investment demonstrates our long-term confidence in, and commitment to, the European economy and its businesses that continue to produce goods sought after the world over," said Jim Barber, president, UPS Europe, in a statement.

UPS said its European export volumes have grown at a 10-percent compounded annual rate for the past 10 years.

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