Global express giants deny rumors of service suspensions
Several foreign express giants said that their operations are running as normal, refuting online rumors that delivery companies from Europe and the US are suspending postal and parcel express services in China amid the COVID- 19 epidemic.
FedEx’s international express and freight center at Shanghai Pudong International Airport has kept operating during the recent outbreak, in a bid to ensure normal export business and promote the recovery and development of global trade, FedEx told the Global Times.
It will resume accepting incoming international express shipments to Shanghai Pudong International Airport from Monday. In addition, the Asia- Pacific transshipment center at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport has been operating normally.
The remarks came after rumors circulated online that overseas firms would be suspending postal and parcel express services to China due to the pandemic.
DHL Express told the Global Times that it is actively coordinating its own fleet to safeguard the closedloop work in its North Asia hub based in Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
UPS said its two transfer centers in Shanghai and Shenzhen remain operational, providing services to customers on the precondition of meeting local epidemic control rules, and the company is also taking necessary measures to reduce the COVID- 19 impact on customers, according to thepaper. cn.
While international express giants deny rumors of service halts to China, there have been some partial and regional service adjustments.
UPS said on April 12 that it decided to suspend the import of international air cargo from the US to Shanghai as well as Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in East China.
On the same day, DHL issued an announcement on its website, suspending express inbound services entering Shanghai as well as Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces pending further notice.
FedEx said on April 13 that it would suspend the service of imported shipments transiting from Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces, through Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
“Our business has seen some impact, but we transferred some goods that originally needed to be shipped from Shanghai port to the ports of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and tried to avoid logistics problems,” Diane Wang, founder of B2B cross- border ecommerce marketplace DHgate, told the Global Times on Sunday.