UPS expands to prepare for holiday shipping
Christmas tree lots, Hickory Farms kiosks and the Pink Pig aren’t the only things set to pop up over the holidays.
This year, shipping giant UPS is joining in by erecting seasonal package distribution facilities, part of an effort to expand operations and avoid the late holiday shipments of last year.
UPS is investing $500 million to prepare for the holiday shipping season and expand its operations going forward, including a new mobile distribution facility in Roswell.
The seasonal Mobile Distribution Center Village in the works in Roswell will be a series of connected modular units that create 90 spots where UPS’s brown trucks can pull up. It’s one of about 14 “MDC Villages” the shipping giant is putting around the country.
The seasonal facilities can be taken down and moved to other locations as needed after the holidays.
It’s part of an effort to add 6,000 more truck loading bays and add packing sorting shifts, in an expansion that UPS head of engineering Mark Wallace called “unprecedented” in the company’s history.
In addition to the temporary distribution centers, UPS is also opening new permanent distribution buildings and adding the modular units to existing buildings to expand capacity.
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