Effective last week, UPS increased its cargo capacity by more than 50 percent on 19 weekly flights into Central and South America, replacing a Boeing 757 narrow-body aircraft with a new, larger B-767 widebody freighter. The B-767 can carry a payload of 132,200 pounds, or about 50 percent more than a B-757.
The flights will originate from UPS's Americas hub in Miami and operate into Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador; Bogota, Colombia; Panama City, Panama; Guatemala City, Guatemala; and Managua, Nicaragua.
'UPS has been one of the largest cargo carriers in the Americas for more than a decade, so when our customers asked for more capacity, we responded with this larger aircraft,' said Romaine Seguin, president of UPS's Americas region.
UPS said the economies of Latin America grew an average 6 percent in 2010, led by such export industries as flowers and farmed fish in Colombia and Ecuador; fruits and vegetables in Guatemala; okra and automotive parts in Nicaragua, and fresh fish out of Panama. Technology and health care products also are increasing.
