Worldport (UPS air hub) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Worldport is the worldwide air hub for UPS

United Parcel Service

United Parcel Service, Inc. , typically referred to by the acronym UPS, is a package delivery company. Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the...

(United Parcel Service) located at the Louisville International Airport

Louisville International Airport

Louisville International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport centrally located in the city of Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA. The airport covers 1,200 acres and has three runways. Its IATA airport code SDF is based on the airport's former name, Standiford Field...

in Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

, Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

. Although UPS has had a hub at Louisville since 1980, the term was not used officially by the company until 2002, after a $1 billion, five-year expansion. Previously, the project was named "Hub 2000." The facility is currently the size of 80 football fields and capable of handling 84 packages a second, or 416,000 per hour. With over 20,000 employees, UPS is one of the largest employers in Louisville, and in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The facility mainly handles express and international packages and letters. Worldport serves all major domestic and international hubs.
A one million square foot expansion was completed in Spring 2006 to integrate heavy freight into the UPS system. The expansion was prefaced by the purchase of Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, formerly Emery Worldwide

Emery Worldwide

Emery Worldwide was a cargo airline, once one of the leading carriers in the cargo airline world. Its headquarters were located in Redwood City, California....

. The new facility, designated "Worldport Freight Facility" (HWP), went online in April 2006 and was the first of the company's regional hubs to begin integrating the Menlo volume into the system. Menlo's Dayton, OH facility was taken offline in June 2006.
In May 2006 UPS announced, that for the third time in seven years it would significantly expand its Worldport hub at Louisville International Airport, with a second billion-dollar investment. The second expansion was completed in April 2010, with the facility now measuring 5200000 square feet (483,095.8 m²), with a perimeter of 7.2 miles (11.6 km). The plan was that more than one million square feet to be added to its existing facility, while another 334500 square feet (31,076.1 m²) space to be renovated with new technology and equipment. Worldport capacity to expand from 300,000 packages per hour to 416,000 packages per hour. Additionally, several ramps at the Louisville International Airport to be built or altered bringing a total increase of just over 3000000 square feet (278,709.1 m²).

Since many of the jobs are part time and overnight, UPS has hired mostly college students by offering both nationwide tuition reimbursement and a special program called Metropolitan College, where University of Louisville

University of Louisville

The University of Louisville is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General...

and Jefferson Community and Technical College students who work part time overnight can receive 100% tuition reimbursement. Currently, over 75% of workers at Worldport are students.

UPS Worldport was featured on an episode of Ultimate Factories

Ultimate Factories

Ultimate Factories is an American documentary television series that premiered in 2007 on the National Geographic Channel. The program explores the inner workings of factories worldwide...

in June 2008.

External links

How UPS Works - UPS WorldPort
UPS Worldport expansion showing tangible benefits -- Business First May 6, 2011

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