UPS opens $80m-plus hub at Clark airport, expanding its Philippine cargo network
The 30,000-square-metre facility adds sorting and specialist shipment capacity as UPS changes service on more than 1,100 trade lanes.
UPS opened a new cargo hub at Clark International Airport in the Philippines on 15 October, completing an investment of more than US$80 million in a larger gateway for international parcels. The company says the opening brings service improvements on more than 1,100 trade lanes, including routes linking the Philippines with other Asian markets.
The 30,000-square-metre hub is 15 times the size of UPS's previous Clark facility. UPS says its design enables average daily package volume through the hub to rise to 46,000, with a maximum processing capacity of 15,000 packages an hour. Those figures describe the expanded facility's capacity, rather than a measured daily total since opening.
The site combines automated sorting with handling for shipments that need tighter controls. Its small-package sorting system is designed to process up to 9,000 items an hour. Three refrigeration and freezer units, operating across a range from minus 20 to 25 degrees Celsius, support temperature-sensitive healthcare cargo; the facility also has re-icing capability and priority handling technology for critical shipments.
UPS says it now operates 170 flight segments into and out of Clark each week and that the new hub has created nearly 600 jobs. It identifies healthcare, high-tech and manufacturing customers as groups served by the expanded operation. For those shippers, the added sort and cold-chain equipment widens the types of goods that can be handled at Clark, while the flight network connects the airport to Asia Pacific, India, Europe and the United States.
The company says some deliveries to and from eastern China and between several Southeast Asian markets and India can be up to two days faster. It also cites improvements on Philippine trade lanes, including some later pickup cutoffs and earlier deliveries. These changes depend on the route and service selected; UPS directs customers to its time and cost calculator for shipment-specific estimates.
Clark has been part of UPS's Philippine network since its first hub there opened in 2002. The new facility follows UPS's opening of a Taiwan logistics centre, the start of construction on a Hong Kong airport hub and an expansion of its Incheon airport hub earlier this year. Clark adds both parcel-sorting space and controlled-temperature equipment to that regional network.
Source: UPS, 15 October 2026.
