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Panorama of UPS Worldport Air Hub at Louisville International Airport in 2004. UPS’ global hub for air shipments Is the Worldport, located at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. The facility contributes to the airport's status of the second-busiest cargo airport in the United States and the fourth-busiest worldwide. [58] [59]
As part of the 2004 purchase of Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, a second expansion was completed in 2006 to expand heavy-freight operations in the UPS systems; similar expansions were added to the largest UPS hubs in the United States. From 2006 to 2010, a third expansion added over 1 million square feet to the Worldport facility (to 5.2 million ...
CACH is the largest ground hub in UPS's worldwide network. Packages are only handled during loading and unloading; all sorting takes place through a system of conveyor belts and push paddles, utilizing high-speed cameras to read the destination from a smart label to sort a package to its trailer.
Last month the International Air Transport Association said that total demand for air cargo, which is measured in cargo ton-kilometers, climbed 18.4% in January compared with the prior-year period.
List of the largest cargo airports in the United States based on weight of landed cargo in US pounds (freight + mail) since 2008 (note: this list includes airports in U.S. territories). Rank (2022)
The world's thirty busiest airports by cargo traffic for various periods (data provided by Airports Council International). Numbers listed refer to loaded and unloaded freight in metric tonnes , including transit freight.
Worldport is the worldwide air hub for UPS (United Parcel Service) located at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Because of UPS, Louisville is the sixth-busiest cargo airport in the world, and the third busiest in the United States. [12] [23] Although UPS has had a hub at Louisville since 1980, the term was not used officially by ...
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