01x[高等教育]国际快递巨头在中国市场的挑战.pdfVIP

The Challenges for International Courier Giants in the China Market William . Jafferson . Clinton. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania , Published 2007.10.10 Knowledge Wharton -Strategic Management It was 11 p.m., but one corner of the Louisville International Airport in Kentucky, U.S.A., still had all its lights on. Four layers of conveyors moved forward at a steady pace between concrete reinforced steel pillars, carrying parcels of all sizes and shapes. The conveyors sort 300,000 parcels every hour. This is the internationalHub of the Futurefor UPS, the international courier giant. It has an area equivalent to 43 college soccer fields. Every day, 15.6 million parcels pass through here and are then delivered to more than 200 countries and regions by over 560 airplanes. The conveyors have a total length of 122 miles -- roughly the distance from the hub to Cincinnati. It makes use of more than 75 million pounds of steel, nearly five times the amount used in the Eiffel Tower. A parcel stays in the international hub for approximately eight minutes; 40% of parcels are equipped with fiber optical cables and dont require manual processing. Fiber optical cables are more than 4,500 miles long -- equivalent to a roundtrip journey from the hub to Seattle. Fiber optical cables process one million data exchanges per minute -- more than 59 million in an hour. In contrast, daily data exchanges at the New York Stock Exchange are just 25 million. In 1907, Jim Casey, age 19, identified an opportunity in Seattle, the capital of the state of Washington. He borrowed $100 from a friend to establish UPS, a small courier services company that depended on bicycles to deliver letters. One hundred years later, bicycles are long gone, and UPS Airline has become the 8th largest in the world with more than 1,500 freight flights everyday. Workers in brown uniforms drive brown trucks in more than 200 countries and reg