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UPS increases its presence in the e-commerce with the acquisition of the i-parcel
the market of the transboundary e-commerce will reach this year a value of 105 billion dollars
October 8, 2014
The express courier UPS has bought the American logistic society i-parcel that it is specialized in the segment of the sale of producing through e-commerce platforms. The UPS group has explained that the acquisition allows to develop the international transboundary logistic activities from the United States and the United Kingdom towards beyond 100 nations and that, in consideration of the increase of the e-commerce in the USA, in the United Kingdom and in other markets, the operation will allow with UPS to strengthen own services in this within.
"UPS - it has asserted the commercial director and vice president of the group American, Alan Gershenhorn - continues to look towards the increasing demanded world-wise in the market of the total e-commerce, that it is in continuous development. According to a study of Pay-Pal, the transboundary e-commerce will reach this year a value of 105 billion dollars and within 2018 it will exceed 300 billion dollars with 130 million transboundary purchasers on-line. UPS continuous to invest in ability that traders of the field allow with its e-commerce to satisfy the increasing asks world-wide".
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