Taiwan’s largest trade-promotion organization, the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), and UPS-Taiwan Branch announced their monumental cooperation on August 31, 2010. Starting from September, UPS will provide several privileged delivery services to domestic members of TAITRA-operated business-to-business e-commerce website, Taiwantrade. The launching of this cooperation completes the last mile of Taiwantrade’s upgrading to become the national cross-industries e-market platform.

TAITRA President & CEO Yuen-chuan Chao pointed out, “As trade liberalization and economic globalization continue to accelerate, Taiwanese businesses have entered an era of group competitions and cooperation which requires sharper external resource integration to take on the next stage of business development. Besides providing trade service and business intelligence, Taiwantrade in the past year has also begun cooperating with Google, Dun & Bradstreet, eBay, PayPal, and now UPS. The collaborations have resulted in thorough information, money, and goods flows and thereby increased the capacity of Taiwan’s small and medium enterprises to expand to the global market. In other words, they get the greatest online marketing effect with the least cost.”

The general manager of UPS-Taiwan Branch, William Ng, on the other hand emphasized that UPS has branch offices in 200 areas of the world. The company’s experience in global delivery allows them to understand clearly about the blind spots Taiwanese businesses face in the global logistics/circulation management. According to UPS’s observations, every delivery process has decisive impact on customers’ satisfaction on the business deal which even creates customers’ loyalty to a company. It is obvious that logistics are truly important to businesses.

Chief of Secretariat of Taiwan’s Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) Wen-jo Kiang also expressed that Taiwan’s import-export volume has grown significantly in the past nine months. BOFT is anticipating even better trade activities in the Asian region. Taiwantrade’s cooperation with UPS this time is precisely a realization of the Taiwan government’s encouragement of free trade and paperless trade. It is hoped that through the logistics integration of both sides, the foundation of Taiwanese businesses’ global positioning can be further strengthened.