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UPS Inc. said stronger international business helped boost third-quarter net income by 1% to $1.27 billion, or $1.44 per share.

UPS Inc. boosted third-quarter net income by 1% to $1.27 billion, or $1.44 per share, helped by stronger profits in international business.

The top executive at UPS Inc. said Oct. 27 he is seeing a greater commitment from the Obama administration on completing the Trans Pacific Partnership deal despite negative election campaign rhetoric about free trade agreements.

UPS Inc. is ordering 14 Boeing Co. 747-8 airplanes and holds options for another 14 of the air freighters, tossing a lifeline to the venerable jumbo jet.

The UPS mechanics who service the planes that ship packages around the world began voting on Oct. 21 to authorize a strike after an impasse in negotiations over reductions in health benefits.

UPS Inc. has assigned 50 hydraulic hybrid trucks to delivery routes in the Chicago area as the largest package delivery company continues to deploy alternative-fuel vehicles.

UPS Inc., teaming up with drone-maker CyPhy Works, announced drone tests to deliver packages in remote areas.The first test was earlier this week to move medicine from a Boston area community to Children’s Island, located about three miles from the mainland and without automobile access. UPS also has done drone application tests inside warehouses to track stock availability and assessment of relief aid deliveries, also in hard-to-reach locations. (video by UPS Inc.)

UPS said Sept. 21 it will open a new package center in Compton, California, equipped with its latest automation technology and state-of-the-art sorting equipment.

The price of getting parcels to their destination via UPS is going up after the holiday sales season.

UPS Inc. announced that its pilots, who are members of the Independent Pilots Association, have ratified a labor agreement that is in force until at least Sept. 1, 2021.