Union Pacific Railroad announced several management changes in its Marketing and Sales Department.
Ed Sims has been appointed vice president-commercial strategy. In his new position, Sims will lead a cross-functional effort to refine Union Pacific’s manifest strategy, with a focus on business processes that align demand with capacity. Sims joined Union Pacific in 1983 and most recently was vice president and general manager-chemicals. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Emory and an MBA from the University of Arkansas.

The Department for Transport today confirmed that Silverlink's train franchise will be extended from 15 October 2006 to 11 November 2007. There will be an investment of £97 million in services.

In Korea, U-Freight has promoted Daniel Chung to President of U-Freight Korea Inc, as well as relocating the company's freight hub at Incheon International airport into a new 1,700 sq m multi-user warehouse facility. U-Freight Korea, which was originally established in 1998, has also achieved ISO9001:2000 quality accreditation for its competitive range of global and multimodal export and import freight forwarding services. These include freight storage, Customs clearance and bonded warehousing operations.

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UPS (NYSE:UPS) has been named the country's top business brand in the American Brand Excellence Awards 2006. This is the first year the company has ranked No. 1 overall in the survey. Last year, UPS was ranked highest in the category of business services.

Union Pacific Railroad today announced the winners of its tenth annual Chemical Transportation Safety Pinnacle Award which recognizes safety achievements of Union Pacific’s chemical and petrochemical customers.

UPS (NYSE:UPS) announced an expansion project at its air package hub in Rockford, Ill., that will increase sorting capacity by almost 50%.
The project was approved after close consultation with the state of Illinois and the city of Rockford. While the project will not expand the hub building at the Chicago / Rockford International Airport, the interior will be outfitted with additional sorting equipment to increase its sorting capability from 82,000 packages per hour to 121,000 packages per hour, in turn creating a need for additional workers.

Business leaders from Asia's small-to-mid-sized enterprises say they expect growth in trade this year between Asian nations to outpace even the robust trade still growing between Asia and the West, according to a new survey from UPS. Almost 70 percent of the survey respondents say they expect growth in intra-Asia trade volume this year. That compares to about half of the respondents who project more growth this year in trade between Asia and the United States and between Asia and Europe.