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2002	+0.70 (1)
2010	+0.60 (1)

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2002

+0.70 (1)

2010

+0.60 (1)

UPS Worldport Opens as the World's Largest Package Sorting Hub

Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville, KY, USA

UPS

UPS Worldport Opens as the World's Largest Package Sorting Hub

Starts 09/01/2002ESTIMATED 67% CONFIDENCEUPS and trade press (PARCEL Industry^[2], FreightWaves) date the $1 billion Worldport expansion's completion to September 2002, but no source gives the exact calendar day.

UPS finished a three-phase, $1 billion expansion of its Louisville air hub in September 2002, doubling it to 4 million square feet and creating Worldport, the world's largest fully automated package-handling facility.

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UPS Completes $1 Billion Expansion of Worldport to 5.2 Million Square Feet

Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville, KY, USA

UPS

UPS Completes $1 Billion Expansion of Worldport to 5.2 Million Square Feet

Starts 04/30/2010ESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCENo source gives an exact completion date. UPS's own first-quarter release of 27 April 2010 (the pin's reference) says the second phase of the Worldport expansion opened during the quarter, while PARCEL Industry (28 April 2010) and Wikipedia place the completed expansion in April 2010. Dated to the last day of April 2010 as an estimate; the previous 2010-04-27 was the press release date.^[1]

UPS finished a second, roughly $1 billion expansion of its Worldport air-freight hub in Louisville, Kentucky, adding 1.2 million square feet and lifting the total footprint to 5.2 million square feet. The upgrade raised the hub's sorting capacity by 37%, to 416,000 packages an hour.

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UPS Worldport Opens as the World's Largest Package Sorting Hub

UPS Completes $1 Billion Expansion of Worldport to 5.2 Million Square Feet